Post by Jaga on Jan 20, 2012 23:44:02 GMT -7
here is Wikipedia info and pictures:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf's_Lair
For rent: 32 woodsy acres in northeast Poland. Previous tenant was history's most coldblooded killer.
Officials in the Eastern European nation are hunting for investors to turn one of Adolf Hitler's former military bases — known as the "Wolf's Lair" — into a tourist attraction, Reuters reported.
Hitler and other Nazi bigs camped out at the lair during much of World War II, using it as a hiding spot to avoid Russian air strikes.
In 1944, Col. Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Hitler at the fortress, an incident portrayed in the 2008 Tom Cruise flick, "Valkyrie."
Buried in the dense forests near the Russian border, the site once housed some 80 buildings, a train station and a power plant and was protected by surrounding minefield, Reuters reported.
It was eventually destroyed by retreating German forces in 1945.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/world/hitler-wolf-lair-rent-poland-article-1.1008709#ixzz1k4Z7Dlcc
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf's_Lair
For rent: 32 woodsy acres in northeast Poland. Previous tenant was history's most coldblooded killer.
Officials in the Eastern European nation are hunting for investors to turn one of Adolf Hitler's former military bases — known as the "Wolf's Lair" — into a tourist attraction, Reuters reported.
Hitler and other Nazi bigs camped out at the lair during much of World War II, using it as a hiding spot to avoid Russian air strikes.
In 1944, Col. Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Hitler at the fortress, an incident portrayed in the 2008 Tom Cruise flick, "Valkyrie."
Buried in the dense forests near the Russian border, the site once housed some 80 buildings, a train station and a power plant and was protected by surrounding minefield, Reuters reported.
It was eventually destroyed by retreating German forces in 1945.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/world/hitler-wolf-lair-rent-poland-article-1.1008709#ixzz1k4Z7Dlcc