Wolfsschanze (1-5)
Location: Near a village called Gierloz. There are two small lakes nearby. Inbetween them runs a road westward to Ketrzyn. Just behind the lakes start the woods surrounding the ruïns of the Wolfschanze.
Today: The ruïns are still there.
Hitler ran the war against Russia from the Wolfschanze There were wooden buidlings and some large bunkers there. The Staufenberg-attack on July 20, 1944 on Hitlers life was here. On July 20, 1944 Hitler held a radio speech about the failed attack on his life broadcasted from the Wolfschanze. Good pictures of the Wolfschanze you can find at www.zeitgeschichte-online.de.
Five days before the attack on
Hitlers life in July 1944. The man on the left is Von Staufenberg. He was responsible for the attack.
‘Lagebesprechung’ with
Jodl and Christian
On July 20, 1944 Von Staufenberg placed a briefcase with a bomb in it
under the table where the ‘Lagebesprechung’ was held.
Number 1 is Hitler. The red circle is the bomb.
Christmas at the Führer Haupt Quartier, 1941
At the Wolfschanze in the period
of 17-21 July 1941
The ‘Lagebaracke’ where the staff discussed the war situation
(picture: Walter Frenz, Hiller von Gaertringen, 2007)
Winter 1942-1943 (picture: Walter Frenz, Hiller von Gaertringen, 2007)
Hitler meets Palevic in 1944
Hitler and his dog at the Wolfschanze (picture: Fest, Hitler, Gesichte eines
Outside, somewhere in the Führer Haupt Quartier Wolfschanze
Hitlers Office. The round table was used for the nightly tea and monologes of Hitler
Mussolini and Hitler looking at the result of the attack
(picture: After the Battle, nr. 19, 1977)
Hitler and other nazi’s that
were in the room
(picture: Fest, Hitler, Gesichte eines Diktators)
On the day of the attack Dönitz speaks to the German people
(picture: Fest, Hitler, Gesichte eines Diktators)
The Lagebaracke, on July 20, 1944, after the attack
(picture: After the Battle, nr. 19, 1977)
Map of the Wolfsschanze
1. Office and residential buildings of Hitler's bodyguard 2. Building the Body Guard
and Security Service 3. Emergency generator 4. Bunker 5. Building of the Heads of
Press Dr. Otto Dietrich 6. Advice shack, a place of no successful attack on Hitler
of 20 July 1944 7. Security 8. Air-raid shelter for guests 9. Bodyguard 10. Building
of shorthand service 11. Security, first Hitler's bodyguard Rattenhuber, chief of
the police department Högl, Post Office 12. Telex 13. Garages 14. Train 15. Movies
16. Heating buildings 17. Dr. Morell, Bodenschatz, Hewel, Voß, Wolff, Fegelein 18.
Stocks 19. Building of Martin Bormann, Hitler's personal secretary 20. Air-raid
shelter Bormann and his personal environment 21. Adjutantur Hitler and the Wehrmacht,
the Army Personnel 22. Casino II 23. General Alfred Jodl, chief of the army leadership
in the Supreme Command Staff of the Wehrmacht 24. Firefighting pond 25. Office of
the Foreign Ministry 26. Dr. Fritz Todt, after his fatal accident: Albert Speer 27.
Of Hotel bodyguard 28. of accessible air-raid shelter with Flak and MG units on the
roof 29. Casino I 30. New tearoom 31. General Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief
of the High Command of the Wehrmacht 32. Old Teahouse 33. Building of Hermann Göring,
Reich Marshal Field 34. Air-raid shelter with Göring Flak, MG and reflector units
35. Representation of the High Command of the Air Force 36. Representation of the
high command of the navy 37. Bunker with Flak Station 38. Ketrzyn railway line (Kętrzyn)-Anger
Castle (Węgorzewo)
(source: wikipedia.de)
The Wolfschanze was the most famous and most used Führer Haupt Quartier of Hitler,
who spent a lot of time there to coördinate the troops during the invasion of Russia.
The Von Stauffenberg-attack took place at the Wolfschanze. Only a lot of ruïns remain
today, but the Wolfschanze is open for the public. The map on this page only shows
a few locations in- and outside the Wolfsschanze.
1. Bahnhof
2. Führerbunker
3. Göringbunker
4. Storch Airfield
5. Rastenburg Airfield
Rastenburg Airport, near the Wolfsschanze. This is the airport Von Stauffenberg used to get away from the Wolfsschanze.
Rastenburg Airfield (5)
Location: 54’02’39.42”N, 21’25’58.74”O
Today: Seems like it’s (remains) are still there.
There were two ways to get away from the Wolfsschanze by air. Next to the Wolfsschanze
was a Storch Landing Field. South-west of the FHQ was the Rastenburg Airfield. This
is also the airfield Stauffenberg used after the attack on July 20, 1944.
Bahnhof Görlitz (1)
Location: West of Sperrkreis I, in Sperrkreis II
Today: Some remains of the station are still there.
When Hitler travelled by train he used this station, that was inside the Wolfsschanze
area.
Right next to the Wolfsschanze was an airfield for Storch aircrafts, that only needed a short runway
Storch Airfield (4)
Location: Directly next to the Wolfsschanze, on the north side, directly south of
the railway
Today: Open field
There were two ways to get away from the Wolfsschanze by air. Next to the Wolfsschanze
was a Storch Landing Field. South-west of the FHQ was the Rastenburg Airfield.
