Wolfsschlucht 1 Hitler"s headquarters in Bruly-de-Pesche in Belgium

**poele1968** · 10-12-2012, 07:26 PM

On June 6 1940, Brûly-de-Pesche was the location were Hitler was staying during the invasion of the Low Countries and France.
This location is unique. Almost nothing has changed. Two bunkers have been build. A third one was never completed.
Two reconstructed chalets are standing in the woods on exactly the same place as they were during the invasion of Belgium and France.

The Fuhrer's headquarters Wolfsschlucht, located in the Belgian village Brûly-de-Pesche , near Couvin , was one of 18 leaders headquarters, during the Second World War . were built partially unfinished To be closer to the war effort, called Hitler at the beginning of the Western campaign , the relocation of its headquarters westward, and consequently was the Fuhrer Headquarters Wolfsschlucht built.

, Dr. Fritz Todt , ReichMinister for Armaments and Munitions, was responsible for the selection of a suitable site. The choice fell on the small Belgian village Brûly-de-Pesche, 25 km north-west of Charleville-Mezieres located. On 25 May 1940 , construction began on this project, carried out by the Organisation Todt (OT). 600 members of the OT works till the 6 June 1940 to finished it. Hitler's three-meter deep concrete shelter was 630 m³ of concrete built and provided a floor space of 25 square meters. Furthermore, five barracks , one of which was intended for Hitler, built with a total area of 1500 m². Depending on another one of these huts was provided for the Armed Forces Operations Office (EFC), as well as a dining room. Additional 800 m² of floor space were in the houses, as done eg school building and church of the village Brûly-de-Pesche available. A landing strip for small planes on which a compound aircraft was on constant standby, was built south of the village.
For the Army High Command (OKH), which have headquarters in the city a few kilometers away Chimay einrichtete, where 25 houses were requisitioned.