A Nazi bunker in Poland, the infamous “führer’s headquarters wolf’s lair”, is set to maintain. Here failed Stauffenberg assassination attempt on Hitler. Now of to Disneyland rotten place to be a memorial.
The map room of the barracks on the site of the former führer headquarters wolf’s lair, in which Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg on 20. July 1944, carried out a bomb attack on Adolf Hitler, is to be reconstructed this year. The barracks is located in present-day Poland, and is part of a huge complex on the site of the former führer headquarters wolf’s lair.
The Explosion devastated the area and killed four people, but Hitler was only slightly injured. A massive oak table, under the Stauffenberg the briefcase placed with the explosives, before he left the room under a pretext, and to Berlin and returned, shielded Hitler to a great extent from the force of the Detonation.
75 years after the failed assassination attempt, the premises are to be built up again; the fateful scene in the map room even be reconstructed with life-size dolls representing Hitler and the others present.
Only hours after the assassination of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler visited the destroyed room
In addition to the presentation of the present by means of symbolic figures, the most authentic re-enactment of the Situation is possible, a so-called “Reenactment”, so Sebastian Trapik, spokesman for the plant, in an interview with Deutsche Welle.
From the barracks, in the the meeting in 1944, after the war, only the foundations remain. In the dense forests in Kętrzyn in the former East Prussia is situated ski jump in the place in the bunker wolf today is a memorial to the resistance hero, Stauffenberg and three of his co-conspirator, which were only a few hours after the failed assassination attempt in the courtyard of the Berlin military headquarters bendler block.
The reconstruction of the map area is part of a series of restoration measures in the wolf’s lair-system, to bring the year about 300,000 visitors to the historic importance of the site in more detail.
Führer’s headquarters – a “Täterort”
The wolf’s lair, was next to Berlin, in a sense, the second capital of the third Reich. Two days after the invasion of the German Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union in June 1941, Hitler moved into his new command center in the former East Prussia: On the extensive grounds, with its 50 bunkers, 70 barracks, two airports, a train station and anti-aircraft batteries Hitler spent 850 days.
About 2000 people lived there, wolf’s lair, the military were arranged operations on all fronts. There were eight massive Bunker, alone, for the Nazi leadership. Hitler, his Secretary Martin Bormann and Hermann Göring had their own Bunker, and there was a bunker for state guests, such as Benito Mussolini and Pierre Laval, the leader of the French Vichy regime.
The roofs were raised again, in order to protect the Bunker from possible allied bombs. The ceiling of Hitler’s Bunker was at the end of eight meters thick.
Massive walls in the Bunker with Martin Bormann, private Secretary of Hitler
In November 1944, the Red army moved closer, and the wolf’s lair was evacuated. In January 1945, the attempted German engineers to blow up all the bunkers, but the steel and concrete was so massive that many of the remnants of the building remained standing. Today, oblique walls protrude bizarre in the sky, and chunks of Rock dangling from rusted steel wires.
The place is of particular importance, since only a few so-called “offender places” are obtained from the Nazi-time. Hitler’s “Berghof” on the Obersalzberg in Berchtesgaden and the Berlin Bunker where he committed suicide, were made at the end of the Second world war razed to the ground.
To become “Disneyland”
Since a long time, ranting historians and visitors, this Nazi bunker complex in former Eastern front was nothing more than a creepy amusement Park; here it is more to pleasures than about the visitors about the made there fateful to inform decisions. It was a “grotesque Disneyland”, said Jan Oldakowski, Director of the Warsaw uprising Museum.
In the bunkers, broken and overgrown as the ruins of ancient Mayan sites in the jungle, it was decided to the Holocaust. Here, the decision to take the case of the suppression of the Warsaw uprising in August 1944, no prisoners fell. The number of deaths is estimated at 250,000, it is the civilian population.
The Remains of Hitler’s personal Bunker
Memorial plaques against Forgetting
Before the start of the restoration measures, there were a few maps of the main bunker and a shield, on the history of the conspiracy of the 20th century. July, little historical information could be read. Private guides were on the spot, but you are often rather on technical facts, such as the thickness of the walls than on the historical context.
The new operator, the terrain 2017 acquisitions of a private tenant, have set the “market mood” that prevailed until then on the site, an end, writes Sebastian Trapik. So you have concluded, among other things, the rundown shooting range in the former Bunker of General Alfred Jodl was hanged for war crimes in Nuremberg – to the tourists for small money with replicas of the MP40 machine were guns Pellets to plastic bottles to shoot.
Paintball will no longer be offered, instead, in April, information panels outside the building were installed, and in one of the accommodations, a documentary will be shown. There are exhibitions of weapons and military equipment, as well as about the Warsaw uprising, and an informative Multimedia App for all visitors.
Historical site for posterity
In the planning of the exhibitions and information boards on the site, the authorities had consulted historian, explains Trapik. And: “The visitor figures have risen already.” In the course of the year the trail is being expanded through investment, and, therefore, visitors can visit the Bunker at night, the outside lights will be installed on.
Memorial to Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Tourists can stay for years in one of the few intact buildings. In the next five years, according to the Plan, in addition to arise in a green-painted barracks, and in the earlier SS officers were housed, a Hotel, a Restaurant, a conference room and a visitor centre.
The war generation is dying out slowly, but historians can jump convinced that places such as the wolf, when they are presented to the Public correctly, for future generations both the crimes and atrocities of the Nazis as well as the resistance against the Nazi Regime illustrate.