![]() ![]() With the exception of the Berghof above Berchtesgaden, no other location is so closely associated with Adolf Hitler. The Wolfsschanze would become Hitler’s home from home the headquarters that he would frequent more than any other during the war, spending more than 800 days there over the three years of its existence. The most famous of his field headquarters was the elaborate complex of bunkers, briefing rooms and blockhouses known as the Wolfsschanze, or ‘Wolf’s Lair’, near Rastenburg in East Prussia. Reinforced concrete seemed to follow Hitler like a Wagnerian leitmotiv his Reich was not only the largest builder of bunkers in history, it also perfected its art constructing shelters for its Führer, with almost all of his various residences and headquarters – from Wolfsschlucht II at Margival in eastern France, to Wehrwolf near Vinnistya in Ukraine – being generously equipped in that regard. “Hitler in the bunker” said would-be assassin Claus von Stauffenberg, “that’s the real Hitler”. ![]()
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