After Hitler came to power, the army continued to expand, and the chain of command expanded with it. Beginning in September 1936, the establishment of a new general headquarters office in Tsosen, more than 30 kilometers south of Berlin, was completed more than two years later. Before completion, they conducted several tests to ensure reliability in the war.
That is to bombard here, to see if the thick cement houses and the fortresses twenty or thirty meters underground can withstand the test. The truth is, they can settle in here with confidence. The Army General Command (OKH) moved into the Maybach 1. However, his general staff followed Hitler until January 1945.
In 1940, Maybach 2 was completed and the Wehrmacht High Command (OKW) was stationed. In 1945, Guderian's Army General Command was in charge of the Eastern Front, while the Supreme Command, under the leadership of the Chief of the General Staff, Marshal Keitel (left), was primarily responsible for the Western Front campaign. A friend to ask, they are here, must be top secret, right?
It's true. In order to hide the eyes and ears, the place has become a residential area, and people have been arranged to come in and out. Under the cover of the forest, the houses are painted green, brown and black. But in fact, in the dark, there are soldiers staring. Such a large group photo is very rare. Even between OKH and OKW, there is a high barbed wire fence separated. Although they had passages underground, the Army Supreme Command staff joked that even if the High Command was occupied by the enemy, we would not know.
However, the two agencies still have in common, that is, they share a "Type 500 telephone exchange". The telephone was well connected, covering not only the whole of Germany, but also the places they occupied. It can be said that Tsosen was the heart of the wartime chain of command - even the assassination of Hitler was planned at Maybach 2, and many important materials were later found locked in a cabinet. But apparently, the assassins didn't use the superphone well — however, the top secret place was still infiltrated by Soviet intelligence.
In early 1945, Hujakov, deputy commander-in-chief and chief of staff of the Soviet Air Force, wrote to Major General Dean, head of the US military delegation in Moscow, telling him the location, scope, area, guarding troops, and maps of the "fortress", and suggested that the US military immediately bomb the place. It was believed that the German army would be severely damaged, and its daily work would have to be stopped and forced to move elsewhere. (This is a Soviet tank captured by the Germans in 1944 and written in German – for OKW.) ）