As early as 29 April 1933, Hermann Göring founded the Reich Air Protection Association, which was in charge of training the German population in air protection. These measures were part of Germany's preparations for war and were intended to train the population practically and psychologically for an air war. After the failure of the German blitzkrieg strategy, huge above-ground and underground bunkers were built at great expense in most of the larger German cities to protect the population from Allied air raids.
In Nordhausen, the construction of air raid shelters began in the late summer of 1943. In October 1943, the company Gebhardt & König Deutsche Schachtbau Nordhausen began construction work on an air raid shelter in the Gehege park. This shelter was intended for the approximately 200 employees of