1945: Берлинское метро. Что было?

Представляющий для темы интерес район помечен жёлтым цветом на схеме: теоретически вода могла залить аж ТРИ ветки метро.

Berlin 1945: Who ordered the flooding of the underground railway? Who did it?

Based on everything that I have read thus far, I have come to the following conclusions.

1. There was no Hitler Flooding Order, or if there was, it was never executed. All accounts that mention such an order refer to an order to deliberately flood the U-Bahn, which would have made some practical sense but which never happened, and not to a flooding of the S-Bahn, which made absolutely no sense from the German perspective, but which actually happened (and subsequently led to some secondary flooding of the U-Bahn, but after the cessation of hostilities. The scene depicted in the Soviet film “Liberation” never happened since the Stadtmitte U-Bahn station had long since been evacuated before it became flooded. It is pure Soviet propaganda.

2. It is likely that the S-Bahn tunnel under the Landwehr Canal had been prepared for demolition (as had all other bridges and underwater tunnels) by the defending forces.

3. Nobody on the German side, not even Krukenberg who was in Soviet captivity for ten years, has ever come forward to admit an complicity in the explosion.

4. The area affected by the explosion was far behind the Russian lines by May 2nd. It seems most likely that the order for the actual demolition was given by a local Soviet commander on his own initiative, after Russian troops had come across the prepared charges in the tunnel. The motivation would have been to ‘flush out’ the last fanatical resistance in the tunnels, however nobody familiar with the disposition of the last defending units or the Berlin municipal rail system would have chosen to flood the S-Bahn tunnel for that purpose. Whoever did it was obviously unaware that the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn are physically separate systems, and it was only the serendipitous presence of the pedestrian tunnel at the Friedrichstaße Bahnhof 5 km to the north that enabled the flood water to pass from the S-Bahn system into the U-Bahn.

5. The Soviet perpetrators must have been silenced in one way or another, and any reference to the operation censored out of Soviet accounts. Meyer recounts in the foreword to her book the fact that key files relating to the events are missing from the Berlin State Archives (they are listed in the general catalogue but not physically present).

6. Since all the key archives and source materials, particularly those relating to the post-war activities of the BVG and Deutsche Reichsbahn, remained under East German control until 1990 at the earliest, there would have been ample opportunity to remove compromising material.

Бригадефюрер сам признавал впоследствии, что у него не поднялась рука против этих служак - потому что он сам "имел врождённое чувство долга"...
Как он сам написал - "в тот критический момент проявил странную нерешительность."

Кроме того, задумайтесь ещё над одним аспектом:
тоннели метро были настолько неглубокого залегания, что укрываться в них от артобстрела и бомбёжки было практически равносильно самоубийству.

Уж не замыслили Вы новую грандиозно документированную книгу? В которой докажете, с опорой на сканы пожелтевших доков, что весь исторический агитпроп за последние 100 лет - полное фуфло.