[FranzW. Seidler] Hitler's Secret Headquarters : The Fuhrer's Wartime Bases(pdf){Zzzzz}[BЯ]

This is the first and most comprehensive record of all Hitler's bunkers and command centres v including those built and used, those under construction, and those that never got past planning v throughout World War II. Between 1939 and 1945 almost twenty Fnhrerhaupt-Quartier were completed. At the end of the war numerous projects were being built and countless other suitable sites were being investigated. While observing the crushing early campaigns in Poland and Yugoslavia from special µFnhrer-trains', Hitler made the decision that for the invasion of France, his foray into the Soviet Union and the defence of the Atlantic coastline against Allied counter-attacks, he needed solid, impenetrable headquarters. To that end 20,000 workers were employed in the construction of a string of concrete bunkers that stretched from the middle of France deep into the Ukraine. Throughout the course of the war the bunkers allowed Hitler to evade successfully Allied detection and afforded him an extraordinary level of personal protection. Franz W. Seidler and Dieter Zeigert have pieced together the history of Hitler's secret headquarters thanks to the diaries of Siegfried Schmelcher, head of the construction project, and Leo Muller, site supervisor, both of whom had unparalleled knowledge of a process that involved the movemmennt of over a quarter of a million cubic metres of concrete. Their records include 158 illustrations, documents and diagrams, as well as detailed structural and material references, cutaway plans, safety instructions and codenames. This unique book is about an extraordinary and previously undocumented aspect of World War II.

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Sub-Title: the Fuhrer's Wartime Bases, from the Invasion of France to the Berlin Bunker When you look at the photographs and descriptions of the headquarters building Hitler had built you can't help but contrast it with the lack of bunkers by the western leaders. Hitler must have really loved concrete (a quarter of a million cubic meters), and he certainly wanted a lot of alternative locations. He had some twenty headquarters actually built and more in the planning stages. All in all, some 20,000 workers were employed full time for years to provide him with these bunkers, many of which he never even visited let alone used them as working headquarters. Churchill had a secret wartime headquarters, he needed something to get away from the bombs of the Blitz. I don't believe Roosevelt even had a bomb shelter. This is a classic book. The authors had access to the reports of the two heads of the construction projects that have previously been unavailable. It fills an interesting niche in the history of the Nazi regime. --John Matlock

Publisher: Greenhill Books; First edition (5 November 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1853676225
ISBN-13: 978-1853676222