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evaanna Says: Hitler's bunker, where he lived, worked and slept, was an enormous block of concrete deprived of windows and with foundations going 7 m down into the ground. The ceiling was 8 m thick. The rooms were just over 2 metres high and were simply furnished. Fresh air got here only...
It might have changed the course of history!
evaanna Says: One of the first stops on the sightseeing tour of Wolfsschanze is the site of the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20 July, 1944. If it had succeeded it could have spared the nations of Europe even more suffering and destruction. Plans to kill Hitler had been...
evaanna Says: 8 kilometres east of Ketrzyn lies Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair) - Adolf Hitler's war headquarters, a complex of over 80 (some sources speak of even 200), now mostly ruined, buildings in the midst of marshy forest. The place had been chosen for its inaccessibility and closeness...
St George's Basilica and Old Town walls
evaanna Says: Uphill close to the Teutonic Castle stands another unique Gothic building - St George's Basilica with fragments of the town walls and bastions. Built in the second half of the 14th century by the Teutonic Knights and extended in the 15th century, it was obviously meant to be...
evaanna Says: Dating back to 1360-70, the Gothic Teutonic Castle is Ketrzyn's greatest tourist attraction. Its three wings and a wall with a marvellous Gothic gate surround a cobblestone courtyard in the shape of, approximately, a quadrangle. One of its corners houses a round brick tower,...
DaveyCakes Says: Headquarters of German OKW 1941-44. About 30 bunkers in various states of preservation in ther forest.
alancollins Says: Whilst I was staying in Ketrzyn I noticed on the town map there was a lake not far from the town centre. On my last day there which happened to be a Saturday, the shops had all closed early. So I wandered off behind the town centre and found the lake. On a sunny afternoon,...
DaveyCakes Says: Very reasonably priced, and perfectly good standard for the price. Rooms clean and bright, decent breakfast.
Hotel Wanda: Reasonable Priced Hotel
alancollins Says: Recently stayed at the Hotel Wanda. It was built approximately 100 years ago and has been converted from a tenement building into a hotel. Because of this the rooms are all different shapes and sizes. The hotel is about 10 minutes walk to the town centre and there is a...
Margarita Pizza: Margarita Pizza
DaveyCakes Says: On a cold November Sunday night, when nothing in the town seemed to be open, Margarita came as a pleasant surprise. Excellent pizzas and good beer
Kiosk at 'Wolf's Lair': Guidebooks and 'souvenirs'
evaanna Says: It is just a kiosk where you can get some bottled or canned drinks, newspapers and the like but above all it sells all kinds of souvenirs from Wolf's Lair, some really weird like the plastic death's heads in Nazi helmets (no, thanks, not for us). And anyway, I didn't really...
Gallery at the Castle: Get your gifts here
evaanna Says: We found this gallery and shop selling folk handicraft very interesting. It sells Mazurian and Warmian (Warmia is a land adjoining Mazury from the west) folk crafts and is run by professional ethnographers who can demonstrate some of the traditional skills, like weaving for...
evaanna Says: The ruins at Gierloz are not safe to enter or lean against. Some walls stick out of the ground diagonally as if about to fall and are supported with wooden poles. And yet we saw people getting very close to them or climbing inside the ruins to be photographed. It is dark...
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Headquarters of German OKW 1941-44. About 30 bunkers in various states of preservation in ther forest.
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Ketrzyn (formerly Rastemberok) is a town with over 31 000 inhabitants in the Mazury region. Originating in the Prussian settlement of Rast, it developed into a town when a watch-tower of the Teutonic...
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I spent one night in Ketrzyn in November 2007 to visit the Wolf's Lair. It's about 4-5 hours by train from Gdansk.
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Before 1945 Ketrzyn was called Rastenburg and was in the German Province of East Prussia. Adolf Hitler's war time headquarters the Wolf's Lair were situated a few miles away in the forest at Gorlitz.
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Wolf's Lair - Hitler's Bunkers
The size and thickness of the concrete structures are amazing! They tried to blow the whole place up, but some of the lumps of concrete are amazing in their size. The quality of the work is...
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Wolf's Lair, Hitler assassination attempt locale.
Please click here for Wolf's Lair Hitler assassination attempt site. Map courtesy: www.staypoland.com
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