AIR RAID SHELTERS AND RADAR INSTALLATIONS IN BUDAPEST

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 28, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT .r Raid Shelters and Hadar etas t .ations in
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The south section of the former Clark Adam Square (present name not known) was
partitioned off and elaborate tunneling protects i .tiated late in the fail
of 1950. The Square is located between the Chain Bridge a ad the Buda Tunnel,
and is tangent to the base of the hill on which the Var (Fortress Palace)
stands. Both dad and night shifts have been at work on, this protect. A small
railroad track leads into a tunnel bored into the hill ide and si a2l cars
are used to remove excavated material. .his material is not stored about the
project site but is quickly hauled away by track.
2. Many old tunnels dating from Raman and '&rtish times have be .n cleaned out
and made suitable for air--raid halters. The site of these tunnels is close
to the place where the Germans had an under ?ound hospital during the least war.
3. On the west side of the Var, along V ralta Street, are two tunnels ooa:dng
into the Var Hill.. Considerable excavatio a aired at enlarging these was in
progress dur iaag March and April of 1951. The walls of the Var are being,
redesigned in several places -ad. th the i-at ation of reducing entrances to the
Var area to a mirki rum. Along certain portions of tho west wall., gardens which
were started centuries ago, an. i have gradua.Uy been built up to the top of the
stone wall, have been removed. At these points the Var wall is about forty
feet high.
J Within the palace grounds on Szent Square considerable dig ~g has been
in progress. From the sounds emana ing from this a 'eaa$ it appears that a
pneumatic drill is being employed. The pun se of t U3 digging ay be an
escape hatch or ventilation shaft for the shelters cli.rect.y below. Several
loud blasts were heard by residents of 3a-d a in the early hours of 1. April
1951. These were described as under ground blasts in the Var antis,
Additions to p war fortifications are being conti ` ru.cted along VerettQk,
Gyopar and lcelenheg ri streets on. the youth slope of Ce .ert hegy,, n atati.-
airc:ro.f't unit is stationed in this neighborhooc. Several wooden structures
have been observed along the lower slope of the hill, It is quits likely
these could be forms for concrete pourings,, inv. buildings or sheds- for
housing of personnel or equip sent. A concrete block Ouse stands off to the
north on.a higher level than the other bu.il(dngs. It is presumed t be a
radar station although no antenna net work ,ras vi-Bible,
6, Huge walled-sup caves or &iz. ermplacemnnta are .hilt into the peak of th,
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Sas Hmg r along the eircc.mf?arence, of the pcaa?ko by wire The entz area is surrounded
feai~~ingo 't'hese fortifications are 381d to have existed before ihe
war. scattered growt s of evergreen on than hilltop obscure , view of t,a
summit itse:?s fo 1hare may be a radio or isdar station in these woods,
7. There is a radio station on the Wa S bhs pr Ong 'r stv6s Street where it
leads off t o the Jars fl at the ifltorsectio.r of Hegyhat street. T -to
statiori$ possibly a fox zor summer cottage'. has four sets of double antannas on
the z ofa Some time aano it was men.ttionod that a in ;arian youth .;rota. had. a
"her" station in this areas
It is difficult to discover what is being .~ y &i.
~, done in the .~vac~iae r~ iaa~os Hegy
areao The hilts cover groat areas of 1at.d and my of the roads impassable
because of disr?rpairn at of the reaorta on, the m mAts of these hill: have
been taken over by youth groupsp but installations of a military r ,tiar> m .Ay be
housed on the grounds of these placasa
9. Martinovie;s Hogy is located off Isterthegyi ; tz et and very near the residence
of many elite gover ent. officials. Mere is a concrete blockho , .rrowided
by a fence and guarded by en 1.VN guard on the summit of this hill. The black-
house was corapls tod about a year aio a
10. (igger He is obscured by an evergreen forest., iaic3.rng it impossible to check
on blockhouses.
11. It has been rumored that undergro`: d corridors have been constructed from the
AVH Headquarters along Sze'cliar ri c kpart down to 't. he -Danube. There have boen
no sig s of digging or dredging in this part of BudGopost which might tend to
confirm, this rumor,
12e A recent sanitation decree was issued ordering property e;vns rs to clean bass.
menu and attics of trash. Hences, for some timaq most of tha downtown streets
were loaded with, rixbbles making it im oasibla to detormino w? Cher the rubble
was the result, of n z shelter evacaations or wart ie :refuse collected in
basements and att>icsa It is also pocuible that the shelters mentioned as
being prepared in dotiantowrn : .clapeat (Roiived, .foal Lisa, Viim , Fir i yne'- now
Gorkii Street) wer l- those construztod is Uia last war and 'were racently cleaned
out under the sanitatAon program mentioned above.
13. A now air --raid siren was installed at the i ntsraection of Danati and }.1?^a ak7.in
Streets quite near Batthy ny Square, There are two sirens along I iazt1na
Streets one on an. apartment on Maiinov, zky ?ow at the intersection of Trzombit a,s
Street; one on the r oan .in Iforoos aq;aara. The siren at the D6na"ti and
Franklin i ntersocts on is mounted on a metal tower some thirty feat high, T ,s
siren is an &U-green., double. dock ty ti Another such sirenn, tower is located
at the Szant Orbtz Squara but eL ho ,t the sirens, 'oil- .ch is probably undergoing
repair.
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