Robinson Camp
The Robinson complex was a headquarters of the German Air Force High Command (OKL) during World War II . The bunker is now in Poland, not far from Lake Goldaper .
history
Robinson was the code name for: Commander in Chief of the Air Force Headquarters Rominten . It received this status after the German attack on the USSR . The Robinson complex was established in 1940 and was initially an air raid shelter for Hermann Göring and his staff, who liked to hunt in the Rominter Heide , especially in the Reichsjägerhof Rominten . The Robinson Complex consisted of a heavy bunker , two guard barracks and six brick buildings. A research facility for the rocket motors of the V2 rocket was also housed here. Two special trains were permanently available for the relocation of the location: Asia and Pomerania in Eichkamp and Gross Kummetschen.
On the night of October 19-20, 1944, the bunker complex was destroyed under the code name Johannisfeuer . Hermann Göring's stay in Rominter Heide was described in the novel "Der Erlkönig" by Michel Tournier and made into a film by Volker Schlöndorff under the title Der Unhold .
Here is Colonel General Hans Jeschonnek committed suicide on August 18 1943rd He was buried not far from the bunker on Lake Goldaper. Today the site houses u. a. the Vital sanatorium .
literature
- Albert Molt: The German fortress construction from the Memel to the Atlantic 1900-1945 ISBN 3-86070-905-4
- Inge Marßolek ; Marc Buggeln (Ed.): Bunker. War site, refuge, memory space. Campus Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 2008. ISBN 978-3-593-38603-4
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 58.2 ″ N , 22 ° 19 ′ 14.9 ″ E