POLAND Hitlers hide away

\Wolf's Lair ( Wolfschanze )

Log Number 16

In the top right corner of Poland, ( east Prussia) directly under Leningrad, hidden in thick forest is the Command Center Hitler used to oversee the eastern invasion into Russia . He lived in massive bunkers, with walls up to 8 meters thick, constructed to protect himself and his high command such as Goring and Borrman. The complex has a total area of 18 hectares and accommodated a support staff of 2000 administrators, typist, artisans etc .

I hired a Guide to walk me around the site , Jadwiga, a very experienced guide and indicted areas of interest and interpreting the mounds of rubble strewn about in the forest. The building of wolfs lair commenced in 1940. Hitler lived in the base from 1941 to left in 1944 just before the Russian Red arm arrive.

A railway line ran to the site, Hitler came to Wolfslair in his Bullet proof train, a trip of 12 hours from Berlin. Food and supplies arrived this way. Mosquitoes , and the freezing cold must have been a massive inconvenience. Now the area has regenerated forests but the old trees which formed part of the camouflage remain. Wire strangulation marks and wounds on the older oak trees indicate where the camouflage nets where slung

An attempt to kill Hitler was undertaken at the Camp by several of his high command who realized the futility of Hitlers plans and considered that there was no real chance of victory. The rational behind the attempt was to negotiate peace with the west after eliminating Hitler.

After the guided tour , i revised the blown up bunkers to video and photograph. Im luck i couldn't understand the signs, bringing to the publics attention that entering the ruins was not allowed.

The weather forecast is for heavy rain for the next few days . I will head off to the lake district on my way to the Bialowieski National Park on the boarder with Belarus , Russia.

I wonder what will happen next.

Alvin