The huge bunker complex of Adolf Hitler in the former East Prussia is well known but most people have never heard much about the entire battlefield surrounding it, all around Wolfs Lair fortified lines and bunkers were constructed some even before the Wolfs Lair construction began. These were the lines and trenches intending to hold the Russians from Germany proper. Here the battle was fought in 1944/45 but few people have seen the positions or the battlefield around wolfsschanze.
I wanted to explore the fighting front around Hitlers bunkers, see what is there today and maybe identify the lines and show you the little known parts of the war and the area.
Hitler chose the area of East Prussia well for his Wolfs lair headquarters, for nearly a Century is have been the location for Great military battles, and experimental, only built here defenses and bunkers.
And before the Second World War even began, both Polish and Germans were constructing fortified lines facing each other. We have vis