Hitler's "wolf's lair" life: misogynistic, hypnotized by the cries of frogs
Under the economic crisis, European countries were forced to think of cultural relics. Following the Greek government's lease of the Acropolis, the Polish government has also openly leased it recently, hoping to develop the "Wolf's Den", an air defense fortress of Nazi Germany during World War II, into a tourist spot with an annual rent of nearly 140,000 US dollars.
Located in The 13-hectare forest in Rasdenburg, East Prussia, Germany during World War II, about 15 kilometers east of present-day Könchinge, Poland, the Wolf's Den now belongs to the Polish Forestry Agency. The FDA hopes to bring in investors to help renovate museums, restaurants and hotels, so that the "Wolf's Den" will appear on the tourist road map. According to a local forestry official, "We are waiting, but so far no party has expressed any intention." Because the new tenants need to invest a lot of money, especially to build a museum that can open all year round. ”
As one of the many "Führer headquarters" of the Nazis in Germany during World War II, the "Wolf's Den" may be the most famous, which is related to Hitler's longest stay here, and he spent about three-quarters of his time here in the nearly four-year Soviet-German war. Hitler once expressed his love for this place: "This is one of the few places in Europe where I can work freely and calmly. ”
"Wolf" was Hitler's pseudonym when he was working underground
The Führer's headquarters is the operational command office of Hitler and many high-ranking officials, and the Führer's headquarters is not only a "wolf's den", counting about 20 or so that have not been built at the end of the war, throughout Europe, west to Vendôme, southwest of Paris, east to the upper reaches of the Dnieper River in Smolensk, Soviet Union, north to Pskov on the border of present-day Russia and Estonia, and south to Ukraine.
At the beginning of World War II, Hitler did not have a permanent combat headquarters, he often went to the front line by plane or special train, and in the 1939 blitzkrieg on Poland, he took the special train "America" to the battlefield. The first fixed command post was the "Rock Nest" near the Belgian border, which was put into use in the Battle of France in May 1940. In the winter of that year, in a forest 8 kilometers east of the small town of Rasdenburg in East Prussia, Germany, an organization called "Tot" began to prepare for the upcoming Soviet-German war.
At 3:30 a.m. on June 22, 1941, the Soviet-German War broke out. On 24 June, Hitler arrived in Rustenburg by special train, where he named the headquarters "Wolf's Den."