Wolf's Lair shows the overriding importance of Operation Barbarossa to Hitler, but it was doomed to failure from the start
Posted on 07/31/2019 12:34:28 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Remote, hidden in dense forest, protected by nearby lakes and marshes - the Wolf's Lair in Poland was a secure headquarters for Adolf Hitler in World War Two.
So much so, that the Nazi dictator spent 850 days at the vast, secret complex in 1941-1944, before withdrawing to his Berlin bunker.
Now the Polish state's Srokowo Forest District, which manages the site, is giving the Wolf's Lair a big makeover to pull in more tourists.
The district's spokesman Sebastian Trapik told the BBC that the foresters were "making every effort" to maintain "due seriousness and respect for historical truth" at the crumbling complex.
But critics argue that insensitive "attractions", such as amateurish re-enactments with people wearing Nazi uniforms, could turn it into a sort of ghoulish "Disneyland".
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Mixed feelings about making these sites into tourist attractions.
Although the parking lot in Berlin under which Hitler lived in his bunker and killed himself is one of the most popular attractions in the city.
The challenge with “Wolf’s Lair” is that the location is very remote, a long distance from any major towns or cities. Kind of the whole point when they built it I guess.
There are numerous photographs of the Little corporal and his cadre at that location. If the Poles can turn a profit from the arsehole they should. What the German army did to theirs when the invaded and what happened afterwards was horrific. They should put Hitler statues in the restrooms in a trough so those folks that visit could piss on it. IMO
I have zero desire to see where this sick nut spent his days or what it was like.
But everyone is different.
C’Mon kids and take my hand and lets all go to NAZILAND!!
I would purely in the sense of historic study. This, what the Poles are proposing is sick.
Wolf's Lair shows the overriding importance of Operation Barbarossa to Hitler, but it was doomed to failure from the start
Get the Star of David Express Pass
VIP Treatment at the Roundup from Playful Guards!
Ride The Boxcars!
Free Showers!
A fun day for your whole family!
For Heavens sake don’t leave out Auschweitz. It’s a must see. Wholesome family fun. It was open to them all from Grandma to the kiddies. No fees for folks from the Polish Ghetto.
Of course at the time in was part of Germany. That East Prussian “attraction” in present day Poland would be less controversial if they named it after Count von Stauffenberg and it would be appropriate as it is the site where his brief case bomb exploded but failed to kill Hitler on July 20th, 1944.
Invite some Iranian journalists to the grand opening, have Ilhan Omar cut the ribbon, get Tlaib to appear in the promo with AOC...
As long as they have the Producers’ “Springtime for Hitler” playing in the background - Ich lieben zie, now liebe me alone!
If you go to berchtesgaden, the Eagles Nest is open and is a huge tourist attraction, not as well visited but still open for a visit is the Berghoff, which is nothing more than trees and a few concrete walls, since it was bombed by the British...and other monuments to he Nazis are still around if you look...
People should visit Auschwitz - it is still eerie, but to me the saddest monument is in the Jewish monument in Warsaw
This was renovated thanks to a Jewish man who survived the war and he has written an epitaph that is near the entrance:
“There are German youth groups that come to Israel, and at one of the lectures a 17- or 18-year-old young man asked me, ‘Are you willing to forgive my grandfather?’ I said: ‘I have great honour for you and for your parents, for the new Germany, but your grandfather and all of his generation I will never forgive, and I don’t have the power of forgiveness in the name of the six million people that were murdered.”
Or to me, the one statue in Warsaw - and we are a happy city but one with long memories of sorrow of millions of Polish Jews and Gentiles murdered by the Nazis - the one status that always brings me to tears is this one
Janusz Korczak - he loved children and ran an orphanage -- but he was tossed into Auschwitz. he was not slated to be murdered by the Germans (he was too well known) but he volunteered to go into the gas chamber with his wards so they would not be scared when death came to them
Now that is brave
Also regarding hitler invading the USSR — that was his aim since the 1920s - he wrote what he was going to do in the Mein Kampf and he followed it to the letter.
People SHOULD read the MK - it is the writings of a mad-man. No one can read it and remain pro- or even mildly favourable to the Nutzis
huge chunks of concrete (with very little interior space)
yeah maybe as a wax museum containing the history of destructive leftism and leftists
The best description for the Wolf’s Lair....is smack-dab in the middle of the Ozarks. I just don’t see that many people wanting to make a trip out to it...unless you held some Nazi fascination.
So c’mon on out, and it’ll be grand! Lets all go to NAZILAND!””
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