The president of the country’s Federal Agency for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, Ralph Tiesler, told German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung last week that his agency will “quickly create one million shelter spaces”.
He said it would need at least €10bn in the next four years and €30bn in the following 10 years to build them.
“For a long time, there was a widespread belief in Germany that war was not a scenario we needed to prepare for. That has changed. We are concerned about the risk of a major war of aggression in Europe,” he told the newspaper, CNN reports.
Germany has just 580 bunkers now, many of them not operational.
That’s down from nearly 2,000 during the Cold War.
Now, just 5% of the German population could find shelter in an attack, according to Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Tiesler said his agency will upgrade metro stations, tunnels, underground garages and basements of public buildings.
“New bunker systems with very high protection requirements cost a lot of money and time,” he said.
His agency will be counting on a share of the €500bn emergency infrastructure fund the Bundestag approved in March (see further reading).
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