Fuehrer's Headquarters Bear Cave

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Location of the Führer headquarters

The Führer Headquarters Bear Cave was a bunker facility built by the Organization Todt near Smolensk in the Soviet Union during World War II .

It consists of a 43 square meter cube-like superstructure that is still visible today. The underground dimensions have not yet been explored. The bunker is located in a wooded area around one kilometer from Gnjosdowo on the road from Smolensk to Katyn . In addition to the bunker system, the embankment of the former special track is still visible.

Hitler never used the facility as the Fuehrer's headquarters .

FHQ Bear Cave, the entrance bunker still standing in 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raiber, Richard, Guide to Hitler's Headquarters , After the Battle ( Memento of March 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), No.19, Special Edition , Battle of Britain International Ltd, 1977, London
  2. ↑ Russia's Underworlds: A Journey through Time through Secret Bunkers and Forgotten Tunnels by Thomas Kunze , accessed on July 21, 2013.

Coordinates: 54 ° 46 ′ 53 "  N , 31 ° 53 ′ 45"  E