Glass framed concrete remains recovered from a German bunker at the Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair) complex. Adolf Hitlers main headquarters during World War 2 in the Forest of Gierloz, near Ketrzyn in what was East Prussia now modern-day Poland.

This is a glass framed sections of concrete remains these are small sections of classic German concrete very rough not the greatest quality make with stones inside them poured on a large scale at speed,The parts are nice and solid not braking up or falling apart perfect for display or any collection and have been mounted in to a glass fronted box frame which is 12 inches by 12 inches in size.The parts were recovered from a German bunker at the Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair) complex. Adolf Hitlers main headquarters during World War 2 in the Forest of Gierloz, near Ketrzyn in what was East Prussia now modern-day Poland. The location was carefully chosen in this remote part of East Prussia, far away from important towns and transport routes, to be a convenient command centre for the planned German advance eastwards. The work, carried out by some 3000 German labourers, began in autumn 1940; about 80 structures were finally built, including seven bombproof bunkers for the top leaders. Their bunkers had walls and ceilings up to 8m thick. The whole complex was surrounded by multiple barriers of barbed wire and gun emplacements, and a sophisticated minefield. Hitler arrived at the Wolf’s Lair on 26 June 1941 (four days after the invasion of the Soviet Union) and stayed there until 20 November 1944, with only short trips to the outside world.

The most famous assassination attempts on the life of Adolf Hitler took place on July 20th, 1944, at the Wolf’s Lair headquarters. The plot was codenamed Operation Valkyrie and was led by the German aristocrat and army officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Having survived an assassination attempt within the complex Hitler left the Wolf’s Lair as the Soviet Red Army approached a few months later. The German army prepared the bunkers to be destroyed, should the enemy have attempted to seize them. The complex was eventually blown up on 24 January 1945 and the Germans retreated. Three days later the Soviets arrived, but the extensive minefield was still efficiently defending the empty ruins. It took 10 years to clear the 55,000 mines within the complex.  

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