Wolf s lair castle hitler biography

Located near the small town of Ketrzyn in Poland, the hermetically sealed and highly guarded complex was built between and and included 50 bunkers, 70 barracks, two airfields and a railroad station. The walls of the concrete structures were between five and seven meters thick. Three heavily secured exclusion zones, countless guard posts and ten kilometers of mines protected several thousand military and civilians who lived in the Wolf's Lair.

Wolf's lair today

That pleased Hitler, and Wolf became his cover name. Towering deciduous trees and nets concealed the facility. Nowhere did Adolf Hitler spend as much time during the Second World War — the dictator passed around days in the bunkers at Wolf's Lair. From the outside, Hitler's bunker resembles an ancient Egyptian tomb. Hitler lived in this tomb, he worked and slept there.

But the massive steel buildings were not completely destroyed. After the war, the locals looted building materials from the ruins but huge blocks of concrete still lie in the forest, overgrown with ferns and moss. The minefields were cleared, and tourists have been flocking to Wolf's Lair since Almost 80 years later, visitors can still sense the atmosphere of the place where Hitler, his generals and marshals not only planned campaigns but also discussed the genocide of the Jews in detail.