In 1962 as Russia was installing missiles in Cuba, West Germany was making their own Cold War preparations. Beneath the sleepy village of Cochem Cond, work began on a massive underground bunker hidden behind two innocent looking houses. Locals assumed it was just another nuclear fall-out shelter. The bunker was actually being constructed by the German Bundesbank. Although the shelter was capable of protecting its staff against nuclear attack, its primary objective was to protect the bank’s cash reserves. The West German government became increasingly concerned that hostile communist states…
