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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Tom Sims

Russian nuclear rhetoric rekindles German Cold War fears

The door of an emergency kitchen is seen in a former ciliv defence shelter, wich provided protection for people for two weeks after a nuclear attack and is nowadays used as a Cold War documentation centre, inside an underground station in Cologne, Germany, October 21, 2022. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen

Deep inside a decommissioned nuclear bunker built into a Cologne subway station at the height of the Cold War, tour guide Robert Schwienbacher says he is getting a number of inquiries from Germans asking for space available in an emergency.

Concerns of Germans that dissipated with the fall of the Berlin Wall are now creeping back after decades of peace. It is a flashback for a nation that found itself at the geographic and political centre of the Cold War.

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