These are the Führer's lair, Goering's Quarry, Himmler's Reserved Forest, Erich Koch's underground headquarters, and the Arpad Line bunker.
To protect themselves from air raids and long-range cannon strikes, German leaders of the 1940s sought to create all sorts of underground and aboveground heavy-duty structures. Germany built about 20 such facilities, four, or rather five, of which were located in Ukraine - in Vinnitsa, Zhitomir, Rivne, and Transcarpathia. From the diaries of the German designers of the German military-construction organization "Todt" it was possible to find out the exact information about these constructions.
Werewolf .
Buildings of the Fuhrer's lair. was considered at the time to be the last achievement of the military construction art. The Werwolf was reliably camouflaged and protected both from the ground and invisible from the air. Werewolf (translates as werewolf) was placed near Vinnitsa, very similar to Hitler's main headquarters "Wolfshanze" in East Prussia.
Construction took place from October 1941 to July 1943. For this embodied the latest achievements of military engineering. The German generals admired the security system.
Field Marshal Erich Manstein wrote in his diary: "Vinnitsa is a resort town, located on the beautiful banks of the Southern Bug. Hitler's "Werfolf" headquarters operated here, which took a lot of money to build. It had its own water supply and power plant. We were surprised by the system of dug in the ground and well camouflaged bunkers for the guards, which included the whole territory around the woods.
Records show that Hitler visited his Ukrainian headquarters three times. But in 1944 during the retreat of the German troops, the Fuhrer ordered the bombing of Werewolf. And the Soviet secret services did their best to make it forgotten for a long time. But in 1989, the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute's management became interested in the site.
After probing these places using new space techniques, the giant multi-level structure became a reality. Immediately around Hitler's headquarters many legends arose. It was six to nine stories with some kind of railway station on the third floor. Allegedly, a train with the Führer could secretly arrive there. Rumors about the hidden gold of the Third Reich, about the Amber Room and the secret laboratory for the development of nuclear weapons, which had not subsided until now. There were plans to excavate the "Werewolf", but ... they feared mines.
In fact, "Werewolf" is a well-equipped ground command complex with 81 buildings. The NKVD investigated the complex during the first capture of the bunker in 1944 - they mentioned only three reinforced concrete bomb shelters with a total area of about 300 square meters. There was indeed a train from Berlin and it ran on the usual route Berlin - Warsaw - Brest - Kovel - Rivne - Berdichev - Vinnitsa. There was also a direct telephone connection from Berlin. In addition, one airplane was flown to and from the headquarters every day.
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