Underground Reich. Secrets of the Third Reich: SS Underground Cities

The underground city, which is not afraid of not only a collapse, but also an atomic war, is an unsurpassed creation of military engineers of the Third Reich. "Earthworm Camp" revealed some of its secrets.

NTV correspondent Viktor Kuzmin for the first time managed to visit one of the most mysterious objects of World War II, which is associated with the disappearance of an entire SS division and even the Amber Room.

It is easy to get lost in the passages and tunnels of the Regenwurmlager reinforced concrete kingdom - there is no exact map of it even today. For diggers, this fortified area in the northwestern part of Poland is a real paradise. True, at the entrance it says something completely different.

Stanislav Vitvitsky, conductor: "Original panzer doors, the wing weighs half a ton."

"Welcome to hell" - an inscription inscribed by some digger meets everyone who enters these structures. Two floors of a combat bunker and a concrete staircase down. About 100 such autonomous points with flamethrowers and grenade launchers were built out of 300 along the entire line. Several hundred steps lead to a depth of 40 meters. “There has never been Russian television here,” our guide remarks.

After the First World War, the border between Germany and Poland ran in the north-west of Poland, and in this area the neighbor seemed to wedged into German territory. From here in a straight line to Berlin - a little more than 100 kilometers.

Fearing a threat from the east, the Germans began to build a unique underground military structure in this area, stretching for tens of kilometers. But as history has shown, this line never became a line of defense.

There is no fortified area equal to this in the world even now. Corridors, casemates, railway stations, railways, power plants - all this is the “Regenwurmlager”, or “Earthworm Camp”, which has torn up an area of ​​​​hundreds of square kilometers with its communications.

Stanislav Vitvitsky, conductor: “We have reached the main road and are at the Hayneris station.”

You need to check the map periodically. It was at this station that Hitler came in 1934. He was then pleased with what he saw, but, having appeared here again four years later, he ordered the construction to be frozen.

Germany was already preparing not to defend, but to attack. By this time, the work was only 30% completed. According to the master plan, the defense line was planned to be launched in 1951. How grandiose the object should have been, even if the built third is striking in size.

Stanislav Vitvitsky, conductor: “In 1980, they planned to store nuclear waste here, put it directly into bunkers. But the locals all said as one: no, no, no.”

Even after several decades, the mystery of the "Earthworm Camp" has not been fully understood. There is an approximate plan-map of the corridors, compiled by diggers, but it does not give a complete picture. Where some of the passages lead is not clear. It is said that some of them could reach the Reich Chancellery.

There were also a lot of ground objects. For example, a moving island on one of the reservoirs and drawbridges. But the secret construction plan was never discovered.

There is always someone present here, groups of diggers from all over Europe are interested in the object. In the surrounding villages, you can hire a guide for several days, but amateurs are not advised to go underground.

In the 90s, a tourist died here, staying in the tunnels for the night. They say that they did not find the Soviet foreman, who tried to ride a motorcycle here on a dare. German engineers built reliably and with all sorts of secret traps. They were the first to use water-resistant concrete and stringed ceilings, and the drainage and ventilation systems are still working.

In 1944, there was a military aircraft factory of Dymer Benz, which employed more than two thousand prisoners of war. At the end of the war, the object was guarded by boys from the Hitler Youth and old men from the Volkssturm.

In January 1945, a Soviet tank brigade circled the line along a rural road without firing a shot. Although local history buffs claim that there was a battle here, and the remnants of the SS division "Dead Head" then left along the corridors.

However, official figures say that in the history of the "Regenwurmlager" (Regenwurmlager) four young Poles who explored the structure after the war died.

By the end of 1943, it became clear that Germany had lost the Second World War. The Allies reliably seized the initiative, and the final defeat of the Third Reich was only a matter of time. Nevertheless, Hitler did not want to put up with the inevitable outcome. In response to the massive bombardment of German cities by US and British aircraft, the Fuehrer, as usual, impulsively ordered that the country's military industry be transferred to colossal mountain bunkers. Onliner.by tells how, in just a few months, dozens of factories vital for the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe disappeared underground, including the production of top-secret "retribution weapons", Hitler's last hope, and what price the world paid for this.

Already in 1943, World War II came to Germany in earnest. Before the direct entry of the Allied troops into the Third Reich, there was still a lot of time, but the inhabitants of the country could no longer sleep peacefully in their beds. Since the summer of 1942, the aviation of Great Britain and the United States began to gradually move from the practice of pinpoint raids on the strategic objects of the Nazi military infrastructure to the so-called carpet bombing. In 1943, their intensity increased significantly, reaching a peak the following year (900,000 tons of bombs dropped in total).

The Germans needed to save their military industry first of all. In 1943, at the suggestion of Reich Minister of Armaments Albert Speer, a program was developed to decentralize German industry, which involved the redeployment of the most important industries for the army from large cities to small towns, mainly in the east of the country. Hitler, however, had a different opinion. He demanded, in his characteristic categorical manner, to hide military plants and factories underground, in existing mines and other mine workings, as well as in giant bunkers newly built in the mountains throughout the country.

The Nazis were no strangers to such projects. By this time, powerful bunker systems had been built in Berlin, Munich, Hitler's main headquarters on the Eastern Front "Wolf's Lair" in Rastenburg, his Alpine summer residence in Obersalzberg. Other top leaders of the Third Reich also had their own fortified facilities of this kind. Since the same 1943, in the Owl Mountains in Lower Silesia (on the territory of modern southwestern Poland), the so-called Project Giant (Projekt Riese), the new main Fuhrer's headquarters, which would have replaced the already doomed Wolf's Lair, was actively implemented.

It was assumed that a grandiose system of seven objects would be built here at once, which could accommodate both the top leadership of the Reich, and the command of the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe. The center of the "Giant", apparently, was to be a complex under the mountain Wolfsberg ("Wolf Mountain"), whose name successfully reflected the Fuhrer's passion for everything connected with wolves. During the year, they managed to build a network of tunnels with a total length of more than 3 kilometers and large piedmont halls up to 12 meters high and with a total area of ​​over 10 thousand square meters.

The remaining objects were implemented on a much more modest scale. At the same time, in the most complete form (about 85% complete), there was a bunker under the largest Fürstenstein castle in Silesia (modern Ksenzh), where, again, according to indirect data, Hitler's main residence was to be located. Under Fürstenstein, two additional floors appeared (at a depth of 15 and 53 meters, respectively) with tunnels and halls in the rock, connected to the surface and the castle itself by elevator shafts and stairs.

It is difficult to determine the specific purpose of other objects; practically no documents on the top-secret Giant project have been preserved. However, judging by the configuration of the implemented part of the complex, it can be assumed that at least some of its bunkers were planned to be occupied by industrial enterprises.

Active work on the transfer of the most important industrial enterprises for the military economy under the ground unfolded only in 1944. Despite the active resistance of the Reich Minister of Armaments Speer, who believed that such a large-scale task could only be completed within a few years, the project received Hitler's personal approval. Franz Xaver Dorsch, the new head of the Organization Todt, the largest military construction conglomerate in the Reich, was appointed responsible for its implementation. Dorsch promised the Fuhrer that in just six months he would have time to complete the construction of six gigantic industrial facilities with an area of ​​90 thousand square meters each.

First of all, aircraft manufacturing enterprises were to be covered. For example, in May 1944, under the Houbirg mountain near Nuremberg in Franconia, construction began on an underground factory where it was planned to produce BMW aircraft engines. Speer after the end of the war wrote in his memoirs: “In February 1944, the raids were made on huge factories that produced aircraft bodies, and not on enterprises that produced aircraft engines, although it is the number of engines that is of decisive importance for the aircraft industry. If the number of produced aircraft engines were reduced, we could not increase the production of aircraft.

The project, codenamed Dogger, was a very typical Reich underground factory. Several parallel tunnels were laid in the mountain mass, connected by perpendicular adits. In the frequent grid thus formed, additional large halls were arranged for production operations that required more space. There were several exits from the mountain at once, and raw materials and finished products were transported using a special narrow-gauge railway.

The construction of the Dogger facility was also carried out in the traditional way. There was an acute shortage of labor in the Reich, so all the country's underground factories were built thanks to the merciless exploitation of concentration camp prisoners and prisoners of war. At each of the future grandiose bunkers, a concentration camp was first created (unless, of course, it already existed in the neighborhood), the main task of the victims of which was the construction - at an unimaginable pace, around the clock, in the most difficult mountainous conditions - military enterprises.

The BMW aircraft engine plant under the Houbirg mountain was not completed. By the end of the war, the prisoners of the Flossenburg camp had managed to build only 4 kilometers of tunnels with a total area of ​​14 thousand square meters. After the end of the war, the facility, which began to collapse almost immediately, was mothballed. The entrances to the foothills were sealed, most likely forever. Of the 9.5 thousand forced laborers of the complex, half died.

Unlike the Dogger project, the plant called Bergkristall ("Rock Crystal") was completed in time. In just 13 months, by the spring of 1945, the prisoners of the Gusen II concentration camp, one of the many branches of Mauthausen, built about 10 kilometers of underground tunnels with a total area of ​​​​more than 50 thousand square meters - one of the largest facilities of this kind in the Third Reich.

The enterprise was intended for the production of ultra-modern Messerschmitt Me.262 fighter-bombers, the world's first mass-produced jet aircraft. By April 1945, when Bergkristall was captured by American troops, almost a thousand Me.262s had been produced here. But this object will go down in history with the monstrous living and working conditions created on it for prison builders. Their average life expectancy was four months. In total, according to various estimates, from 8 thousand to 20 thousand people died during the construction of the complex.

Often, existing mine workings, natural caves and other shelters were converted to accommodate military enterprises. For example, in the former Seegrotte (“Lake Grotto”) gypsum mine near Vienna, the production of He.162 jet fighters was organized, and spare parts for aircraft were produced in the Engelberg tunnel of the A81 autobahn near Stuttgart.

In 1944, dozens and dozens of similar enterprises were created. For the construction of some of them, even a mountain was not needed. For example, the mass production of all the same Me.262 (up to 1200 pieces per month) was planned to be organized at six giant factories, only one of which was located under the mountain. The remaining five were "recessed" semi-underground five-story bunkers 400 meters long and 32 meters high.

Of the five conceived plants of this type, they managed to start building one, in Upper Bavaria, which received the code name Weingut I (“Vineyard-1”). Work began in an underground tunnel specially laid on the site, located at a depth of 18 meters. Soil was removed from there and the foundations of 12 huge concrete arches up to 5 meters thick were laid, which served as the ceilings of the complex. In the future, it was planned to fill the arches with earth and plant vegetation on them, disguising the factory as a natural hill.

Builders from several neighboring concentration camps managed to build only seven of the planned dozen arches. 3 thousand out of 8.5 thousand prisoners who worked at the construction site died. After the war, the American occupation administration decided to blow up the unfinished bunker, but the used 125 tons of dynamite could not cope with one of the arches.

However, the Nazis managed to complete their largest underground plant. In August 1943, under the Konstein mountain near the city of Nordhausen, construction began on an object officially called the Mittelwerke (“Middle Plant”). It was here, in the Harz mountain range in the center of Germany, that the release of the “weapon of retaliation” (Vergeltungswaffe), the same “wunderwaffe”, “wonder weapon”, with which the Third Reich first wanted to take revenge on the allies for the carpet bombing of their cities, was to be launched and then again radically turn the tide of the war.

In 1917, industrial gypsum mining began in Mount Konstein. In the 1930s, the mines, no longer used, were turned into a strategic arsenal of fuels and lubricants for the Wehrmacht. It was these tunnels, primarily due to the relative ease of developing soft gypsum rock, that it was decided to expand in a colossal way, creating on their basis the largest center for the production of new generation weapons in the Reich - the world's first ballistic missile A-4, Vergeltungswaffe-2, " retaliation weapons - 2", which went down in history under the symbol V-2 ("V-2").

On August 17-18, 1943, RAF bombers carried out Operation Hydra, the target of which was the German Peenemünde missile center in the north-east of the country. A massive raid on the test site showed its vulnerability, after which it was decided to transfer the production of the latest weapons to the center of Germany, to an underground factory. Just 10 days after the Hydra and the launch of the Mittelwerke project, on August 28, a concentration camp was formed near Nordhausen, called "Dora-Mittelbau". Over the next year and a half, about 60 thousand prisoners were transferred here, mainly from Buchenwald, whose branch Dora became. A third of them, 20 thousand people, did not wait for release, perishing in the tunnels under Konstein.

The most difficult months were October, November and December 1943, when the main work was carried out to expand the Mittelwerke mine system. Thousands of unfortunate prisoners, malnourished, sleep deprived, subjected to physical punishment for the slightest reason, blew up the rock around the clock, took it to the surface, equipped a secret factory where the planet's most modern weapons were to be born.

In December 1943, Reich Minister of Armaments Albert Speer visited Mittelwerke: “In the spacious long adits, the prisoners installed equipment and laid pipes. When our group passed by, they tore off their blue twill berets and looked blankly as if through us.

Speer was one of the conscientious Nazis. After the war in Spandau prison, where he served all 20 years assigned to him by the Nuremberg Tribunal, including for the inhuman exploitation of concentration camp prisoners, Speer wrote "Memoirs", in which, in particular, he confessed: “I am still tormented by a deep sense of personal guilt. Back then, after inspecting the plant, the overseers told me about unsanitary conditions, about damp caves in which prisoners live, about rampant diseases, about extremely high mortality. On the same day, I ordered to bring all the necessary materials for the construction of barracks on the slope of a neighboring mountain. In addition, I demanded that the SS command of the camp take all necessary measures to improve sanitary conditions and increase food rations.

This initiative of Hitler's favorite architect was not particularly successful. Soon he became seriously ill and could not personally control the implementation of his order.

Built in the shortest possible time, the underground plant consisted of two parallel tunnels, curved in the shape of the letter S and passing through Mount Konstein. The tunnels were connected by 46 perpendicular adits. In the northern part of the complex there was an enterprise code-named Nordwerke ("Northern Plant"), where engines for Junkers aircraft were produced. The Mittelwerke ("Middle Works") proper occupied the southern half of the system. In addition, the plans of the Nazis, which were never realized, included the creation of the “Southern Plant” near Friedrichshafen and the “Eastern Plant” in the vicinity of Riga.

The width of the tunnels was sufficient for a device inside a full-fledged railway. Trains with spare parts and raw materials entered the complex through the northern entrances and left it with finished products from the south side of the mountain. The total area of ​​the complex by the end of the war reached 125 thousand square meters.

In July 1944, Hitler's personal photographer Walter Frentz made a special report for the Führer from the bowels of Mittelwerke, which was supposed to demonstrate the full-fledged assembly production of "retribution weapons" created in the shortest possible time. Unique photographs have only recently been discovered, which allowed us not only to see the largest underground plant in the Reich in operation, but also in color.

Nordhausen and Mittelwerke were occupied by American troops in April 1945. This territory subsequently entered the Soviet zone of occupation, and three months later the Americans were replaced by Soviet specialists. One of the members of the scientific delegation that arrived at the enterprise to study the Nazi missile experience, Boris Chertok, later an academician and one of the closest associates of Sergei Korolev, left curious memories of his visit to the plant.

“The main tunnel for the assembly of V-2 rockets was more than 15 meters wide, and the height in some spans reached 25 meters. In transverse drifts, manufacturing, assembly, input control and testing of subassemblies and units were carried out before their installation on the main assembly.

The German, who was introduced as an assembly test engineer, said the plant was running at full capacity almost until May. In the "best" months, its productivity reached 35 rockets per day! The Americans selected only fully assembled missiles from the factory. There are over a hundred of them here. They even organized electric horizontal tests and before the arrival of the Russians they loaded all the assembled missiles into special wagons and took them to the west - to their zone. But here you can still recruit units for 10, and maybe 20 missiles.

The Americans, advancing from the west, already on April 12, that is, three months before us, had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the Mittelwerk. They saw underground production, stopped only a day before their invasion. Everything amazed them. There were hundreds of rockets underground and in special railway platforms. The plant and access roads were completely intact. The German guards fled.

Then we were told that more than 120,000 prisoners passed through the camp. At first they built - they gnawed at this mountain, then the survivors and even new ones worked already at the factory underground. We found the survivors in the camp by accident. There were many corpses in the tunnels underground.

In the adit, our attention was drawn to an overhead crane spanning its entire width over the span for vertical testing and subsequent loading of missiles. Two beams across the width of the span were suspended from the crane, which, if necessary, were lowered to the height of human growth. Loops were attached to the beams, which were thrown around the necks of prisoners who were guilty or suspected of sabotage. The crane operator, also known as the executioner, pressed the lift button, and up to sixty people were immediately executed by mechanized hanging. In front of all the “minke whales”, as the prisoners were called, under bright electric lighting under a thickness of 70 meters of dense soil, a lesson was given in obedience and intimidation of saboteurs.

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A.B. Rudakov PROJECT "UNDERGROUND REICH"

A.B. Rudakov

PROJECT "UNDERGROUND REICH"

Rudakov Alexander Borisovich - military analyst

Once, within the framework of the intelligence agency of the GDR Stasi (headed by Colonel General Markus Wolf), a special department AMT-X was created (headed by State Security General P. Kretz), which was entrusted with the development of the Underground Reich program.

In its operational-search work, the Stasi relied on archival documents and testimonies of living witnesses of the RSHA AMT-VII "C" 3-abstract "Special scientific research and special scientific assignments. The SS Sturmbannführer Rudolf Levin (born in the city of Pirna in 1909) led the lecture. Levin headed the Sonderkommando X ( Hehen-Sonderkommando), which included researchers: Professor Obenaur (University of Bonn), Ernst Merkel, Rudolf Richter, Wilhelm Spengler, Martin Biermann, Dr. Otto Eckstein, Bruno Brehm. The employees of this secret unit actively studied the knight's castles of the first, second and third echelons. Only on the territory of Poland, about 500 castles were examined, where special underground SS facilities were subsequently placed.

The search for valuables within the framework of this post-war program at the Stasi was carried out by Department IX / II, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Encke (four sectors, 50 operational employees: Colonel of State Security Karl Drechsler, Lieutenant Colonel of State Security Otto Hertz, State Security Captains Gerhard Kreipe, Helmut Klink). This closed work, which began to bring good results, was put to an end by the "reformer" M. Gorbachev. The two Germanys were united, a group of Soviet troops (GSVG) was hastily withdrawn from the territory of the GDR, Western special services began to pursue Stasi officers and hunt for their secret archives and developments. This work was started by the American intelligence services much earlier, and in 1987 the German Stasi source Georg Stein, who was studying the Underground Reich and searching for valuables stolen by the Nazis, died. The archive of Georg Stein fell into the hands of Baron Eduard Aleksandrovich von Falz-Fein (place of residence Liechtenstein), who handed over the documents to the Soviet Union.

The writer Yulian Semenov was actively involved in the development of this topic, the latter fell ill and slowly died out in his prime. As soon as the GRU General Staff, represented by Colonel-General Yuri Alexandrovich Gusev, deputy head of military intelligence, increased its attention to the Stasi archival documents and underground facilities of the Third Reich, Gusev died in December 1992 in a car accident.

According to the PGU of the KGB of the USSR (source - "Peter" Heinz Felfe - resident of the PGU of the KGB of the USSR Korotkov) in the 1960s. a secret investigation began in the mine of the town of Wansleben aan Zee. Stasi operatives of Department X found SS documents, after which the mine was sealed. It turned out that in 1943 from the most famous scientific institution in Germany, Leopoldina, a collection of rare books on medicine and botany of the 16th–17th centuries was sent for storage in Wansleben. More than 7 thousand books and 13 paintings were hidden underground. The Soviet units, which arrived 11 weeks after the Americans, took the entire assembly to Moscow. As Johan Tamm, director Leopoldina, only 50 books from the missing collection have returned to the library so far. Among the missing books are an early monograph by the astronomer Johannes Kepler, a text by Paracelsus from 1589, and a unique anatomical atlas by Andreas Vesalius from 1543.

Since April 1945, the US State Department has been conducting an all-out hunt for secret underground objects of the Reich.

On August 29, 1945, General McDonald sent a list of six underground aircraft factories to US Air Force Headquarters in Europe. The layout of the underground aircraft factory is standard, each had an area from 5 to 26 km in length. The tunnels were 4 to 20 meters wide and 5 to 15 meters high; shop sizes - from 13 thousand to 25 thousand square meters. m. These parameters tell us about the nature of the products that the plant is capable of producing, and if we link these points to geographical coordinates, we will get a completely different picture. Underground factories were focused on the manufacture of block modules for new generation kriegsmarine submarines on the engines of G. Walter, V. Schauberger, K. Schappeller.

In October 1945, in a secret memorandum on underground factories and laboratories located in Germany and Austria, sent to the US Air Force headquarters, it was stated that the last check revealed a large number of German underground factories. Underground structures have been discovered not only in Germany and Austria, but also in France, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Moravia. The document stated: "Although the Germans did not engage in large-scale construction of underground factories until March 1944, by the end of the war they managed to start about 143 such factories." Another 107 factories were discovered, built or laid down at the end of the war, to which we can add 600 caves and mines in Austria, Germany, East Prussia, the Czech Republic, Moravia, Montenegro, many of which were turned into underground workshops, institutes and laboratories for the production of weapons. “One can only speculate what would have happened if the Germans had gone underground before the start of the war,” concludes the author of the memorandum, clearly struck by the scope of German underground construction.

For the purpose of deep sounding and covert use of underground facilities in Poland in the town of Morong (German: Morungen), 55 km from the border with Russia, in May 2010, the Pentagon deployed its next “Project Myth” - the Patriot medium-range missile defense system. This unfriendly step cannot significantly affect the security of the United States and the alignment of forces in modern military solitaire. So why did the Americans need Poland and the Czech Republic? Let's take a closer look at this strategic issue.

The territory of modern Poland is a strategic stronghold of the "Fourth Reich".

Object No. 1 "Wolfschanze" - "Wolf's Lair", East Prussia, located 7 km from the city of Rastenburg (German), today - the territory of Poland, the city of Kentszyn. Hitler's main headquarters was located in a triangle between objects: Morong Castle - Barczewo Castle - Kętrzyn. Beginning June 24, 1941, Hitler spent 850 days at his main headquarters. The complex included 200 structures for various purposes in the town of Görlitz (reconnaissance school SD "Zeppelin"), surrounded by Masurian lakes (east, north, south), the Boen fortress in the east. The legend says that once there was a well with living water in this place, and the Teutonic Order built a castle here. All objects of the headquarters are placed on ley lines, taking into account sacred geometry, which are amplifiers of psychic and military energy. Fortification protective structures and technologies were borrowed from ancient Tibetan builders. An analogue of such a matrix is ​​the datsan “Keeped by Heaven”, the drawings of which were brought from an expedition to Tibet by Hauptmann Otto Renz. Many of his bunkers and headquarters Hitler designed and drew sketches for projects and fortifications personally.

Headquarters "Wolfschanze" ("Wolf's Lair") in the area of ​​it. Rastenburg (East Prussia) is well known to the GRU General Staff; the construction of this headquarters was disguised under the guise of construction work by the Askania Nova company (owner Baron Eduard Alexandrovich von Falz-Fein, lives in Liechtenstein), for which a recruiting office was opened in Rastenburg and Polish workers were recruited, who then went to different places in Germany. The number of the rate was 2200 people. In 1944, to the north of this headquarters, due to Soviet air raids, a false headquarters was built. In addition, there were fears that, simultaneously with the attack on East Prussia, they would try to land troops in order to capture the headquarters. In this regard, the "Führer escort battalion" was enlarged and transformed into a mixed brigade under the command of Colonel Remer, who distinguished himself during the arrests of the conspirators on July 20, 1944.

Underground communications from Hitler's main headquarters "Wolfschanze", Rastenburg (Polish Kenshin), deployed in the direction of the Polish border hub town of Suwalki, then the territory of modern Russia begins - Krasnolesye - Gusev, the gateway system (German Gumbinnen) - Chernyakhovsk (German castle Insterburg ) - Znamensk - Gvardeysk - Kaliningrad (German: Koenigsberg) - the base of the Russian Navy Baltiysk (German: Pillau, Baltic Sea). The secret underground tunnel was equipped with special sluice chambers, which were filled with water, as the communication constantly ran under the bed of a river or lake. Thus, small submarines were able to leave Hitler's headquarters at low speed in an unsubmerged position into the Baltic Sea. And if you move underground towards East Prussia (Kaliningrad region), then another underground passage is located in the area of ​​Morong Castle and Barchevo Castle (the place of imprisonment of Gauleiter Erich Koch) on Brunsberg (field Braniewo) (the location of the tank di SS vision) - Heiligenbal (Mamonovo) - Balga (Veseloe) castle - Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad) - Pillau (Baltiysk).

In the town of Brunsberg (Branevo), an SS tank division was stationed (and after the war, a Soviet tank unit), so German tanks covered the strategic tunnel from above. One branch went to Heiligenbal (Mamonovo), where an aircraft factory was located deep underground, which is not mentioned in the above-mentioned document; not far away, under Lake Vitushka, there was a unique underwater secret airfield that covered the small stronghold of the Kriegsmarine of the first composition of the Fuhrer's Sonderconvoy. The sluice system could, in a matter of minutes, withdraw water from the river into underground reinforced concrete tanks, freeing the river bed for the runway. The main, main 70-kilometer tunnel originates in Morong, where today the US SEAL special forces (fur seals) are located under the cover of conventional army missile defense units, and goes into the dungeon of Balga Castle (Russia). From Balga Castle, an underwater passage leads to the Baltiysk (Pillau) base. During World War II, an SS division defending the Balga facility was evacuated along this underground highway in a few hours.

Plan-scheme of the city of Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad)

You see 12 forts and underground metro stations. At Fort No. 6, the underground metro goes to Pillau through E. Koch's estate, and, consequently, through his bunker.

Koenigsberg is surrounded by 12 forts, all forts were given names in honor of the famous German commanders and kings: No. I - Stein, No. Ia - Gröben, No. II - Bronzart, No. IIa - Barnekov, No. III - König Friedrich-Wilhelm I, No. IV - Gneisenau, No. V - König Friedrich-Wilhelm III, No. Va - Lendorf, No. VI - Königin Louise, No. VII - Duke von Holstein, No. VIII - König Friedrich-Wilhelm IV, No. IX - Don, No. X - Kanitz, No. XI - Dönhof, No. XII - Eulenburg.

From the forts there are rays-streets - directions (ground and underground communications). The vectors of movement of the ley lines are directed towards the order castles, which create a power magic torus, i.e. a circle to the sacred Koenigsberg. The first frontier of systemic defense is made up of 12 sea castles located on the Baltic sea coast, the main one being Balga Castle.

With the advent of A. Hitler to power in 1933, active underground construction began on the territory of the Third Reich and other strategic places of power.

Where was the rate movement vector directed? First of all, this is Berlin - Hitler's bunker (the main point of the geographical reference of the coordinate axis, the hidden underground direction of communications across Europe and the USSR; the author's version: perhaps to the poles).

This is the "line" Germany - France - Belgium - Switzerland - Austria - Montenegro - Albania - Hungary - Czech Republic - Moravia - Poland - East Prussia (Kaliningrad region) - Ukraine - Belarus - Russia. The “F. Todt Organization” has built a global underground network, which has not yet been systematically studied by military analysts of the GRU of the General Staff of Russia.

The principle of the ancient Tibetan magical Mandala was laid down in a special esoteric design of stakes. The unique network structure of 40 bunkers and rates of A. Hitler was a single plasma generator complex "Thor", each rate was equipped with infrasonic and plasma weapons and had 13 degrees of protection.

All headquarters and strategic underground communications were quickly covered by intelligence schools, Sondergruppen, Sonderkommandos, Abwehr and SD. Not far from Hitler's headquarters were the reconnaissance headquarters of Valli-1, Valli-2, Valli-3 and the 12th department of the Foreign Armies East service.

Smoothly flowing underground communications connected the Fuhrer's headquarters into a single system, one to one, 3 km from Berlin to Smolensk (the town of Krasny Bor), the code name "Berenhalle" ("Bear's lair"), the territory of the Soviet Union. Interestingly, on the territory of the USSR, the Nazis are moving away from the wolf name, moving on to the totem of Russia - the big strong Bear. If you look at the reference point of the coordinate axis, Berlin is an ancient Slavic-Vandal city, on the coat of arms of which there is a bear.

Object No. 4 - "The Berenhalle" ("Bear's Lair") headquarters, 3 km west of Smolensk, on the Smolensk-Minsk highway, was arranged in the same way as the Werwolf headquarters in Vinnitsa (Ukraine). Hitler stayed at this headquarters for no more than 2 hours, and spent the rest of the time at the headquarters of the army group. The main headquarters complex went underground for seven floors, Hitler's armored train approached the third floor-tier. The vector of underground communications was connected to the Werewolf. The SMERSH military counterintelligence did not take seriously the interrogation protocols of Hans Rattenhuber. Why are there no particularly secret headquarters, bunkers and naval bases in the protocols? Today, the US military space group NASA constantly captures UFOs in the strategic locations of the Nazi submarine fleet and Hitler's headquarters, and NASA experts are guessing that these are plasmoids, "flying disks" or UFOs?

At each Fuhrer's headquarters, a Lebensborn field office was organized. Children born in this program from SS officers who guarded the headquarters, and local beauties, were left by intelligence for deep settling. And today they are major functionaries in the places where mothballed headquarters and bunkers are located. Thus, today on the territory of Europe, Ukraine, Russia and the CIS countries, a hidden fifth block of agents of influence and management of the "New Reality" programs has been formed.

“The choice of the location of the headquarters was always made by the adjutant of the armed forces, General Schmundt, and the commandant of the headquarters, Colonel Thomas. Then the consent of the "imperial security service" headed by me was required. The place was chosen taking into account sacred geometry and tied to the megalithic, castle, power, heraldic component.

The names "Wolfsschlucht", "Wolfschanze" and "Werwolf" were chosen because the name "Adolf" in Old German means "wolf".

Analysis of rates, bunkers, factories, institutes and other underground-underwater communications shows their movement to the Baltic Sea, to the territory of East Prussia, to the main bases of the Kriegsmarine.

The most closed and mysterious underground system is the medieval castle of the masters of the Teutonic Order of Malbork, which is connected by a tunnel to Morong Castle. It is possible that under the castle lake there is a mothballed Fau factory. Malbork Castle connects an underground tunnel with the base - the Elblag shipyard. Frombork Castle is located on the coast of the bay (German: Frisches-Haffen) of the Vistula-Kaliningrad and is connected by a tunnel to Morong Castle. Morong - Malbork - Frombork castles form a small triangle, where the factory was located underground, which today does not appear in any documents.

If you look closely at the geographical map, you can see that Darlowo - Tczew - Malbork - Morong - Barczevo are on the same ley line, that is, all these castles were originally planned to be connected into one underground highway.

The main benchmarks by which we can navigate underground facilities are intelligence schools, SS control centers and prisoner of war camps (labor force).

The reconnaissance and sabotage school in the town of Yablon was created on the territory of South-Eastern Poland to train Russian agents in March 1942 near Lublin (German: Leibus) and was located in the former castle of Count Zamoyski. Officially, the organ was called "Yablon Hauptcamp" or "Special Part of the SS". The school trained agents, saboteurs, radio operators and scouts. The personnel came from special preliminary camps for the Russians and the Zeppelin Sonderkommandos. There were up to 200 activists at the school at the same time. Perhaps the agents were preparing for the operational cover of the underground direction to Brest. These communications are not indicated at all in the documents of the Reich and other sources. But that the underground tunnel goes through the Brest fortress, for sure. The construction of the citadel itself was tied to the tunnel that had already existed since ancient times.

From the testimony of SS Obergruppenführer Jakob Sporrenberg, Polish and Soviet intelligence became aware of the existence of the Kolokol project, which was born as a result of the merger of the top secret Lantern and Chronos projects.

Work within the framework of the Kolokol project began in mid-1944 at a closed SS facility located near Leibus (field of Lublin). After the entry of Soviet troops into Poland, the project was moved to a castle near the village of Fuerstenstein (Kschatz), not far from Waldenburg, and from there to a mine near Ludwigsdorf (Ludvikovichi), 20 km from another outskirts of Waldenburg, on the northern spurs of the Sudetes. I am faced with a difficult task: to link all the disparate historical, geographical, esoteric, technical, intelligence elements into one general picture of the world. Understanding this grandiose Nazi project, namely the future, and not the past, gives us today a unique opportunity to beat our opponents in all areas. Obama tried to impose on us the creation of a European missile defense system and almost persuaded the then President D.A. Medvedev. The purpose of this adventure was to draw us into a global military conflict in the Asia-Pacific region. Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran and other subjects of the emerging global confrontation are only looking for an argument to attribute Russia to their enemies. Obama sought to create a kind of European shield out of Russia, using it as additional cover.

The reference points (places of power) on the territory of Poland were connected by underground communications with the Darłowo castle and other castles, bunkers and headquarters of the Fuhrer Wolfschanze, the Barczevo castle, the Bialystok castle.

Object No. 5 Darlowo - A. Hitler's favorite castle and naval headquarters, a giant, has an advantageous strategic position, it is located on the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea. Baltic outpost - a masterpiece of castle fortification architecture; Darłowo Castle was founded in 1352 by the Pomeranian prince Bohuslav V at the bend of two rivers flowing into the Baltic Sea. Before the war, German intelligence carried out repairs to the castle under the legend of creating a private museum in it - a common practice for encrypting secret objects. Since the capture of Poland in September 1939, the castle has become the secret residence of A. Hitler, and in this work, for the first time, he publicly appears in this role. Darlowo Castle is the key to unraveling the main secret of the Third Reich. Darlowo Castle is connected by a wormhole, which stretches from north to south, to Poznan, Mendzizhech to Lake Krzyva (Russian: Kotel), where there is an airfield, a system of underground passages, special hydraulic structures located on the western side of the forest lake.

On about. The boiler began a continuous chain of water barriers, which ended only on the river. Oder (territory of Germany), to which about 25 km. North of the lake The cauldron starts directly from the underground citadel itself - a special object of the SS No. 6, codenamed "Earthworm Camp" (North-West Poland). In the direction of Berlin under the river. The Oder ran the shortest route from Poland, the two-way metro channel lies at a depth of 40–68 m. From the Poznań underground plant (one of the entrances to the Einhain castle), the tunnel passes through the Polish city of Mendzizhech (German: Meseritz), then to Berlin. The secret highway under the ground goes in a western direction, to the Oder, to which from Kenshitsa (SS town) in a straight line 60 km. "Earthworm Camp" (" Regenwurmlager"") - the core of the Mezeritsky fortified area, the German name " Oder-Warte Bogen"(Warta-Oder Belt"). In the Soviet documents of the Red Army of the 1930-40s. it passes like the "Oder quadrangle".

In 1937, the Wehrmacht chose the ideal place when laying the foundation for the construction of the citadel. Hard-to-reach hilly landscape, strips of mixed forest, numerous natural water arteries, lakes, canals, swamps. For the strategists of the General Staff of the Wehrmacht and the local population, a visible ground part of the legend of the secret construction was defiantly created. The first line, passing along the river. Obre, consisted of more than 30 pillboxes and bunkers. The main line was several tens of kilometers deep. There were from 5 to 7 pillboxes and bunkers per 1 km of the front. The system of dams and locks was designed to flood any part of the fortified area. The thickness of the walls of the domes, under which mounted machine guns, mortars and flamethrowers were placed, reached 20 cm. On the approaches to the fortified area and along the entire depth of the defense, there were various barriers in 6-7 rows. All this was connected by tunnels that lie at a depth of more than 40 m.

Before the withdrawal of the SGV from Poland, an in-depth engineering and sapper reconnaissance of the SS facility was carried out. A member of the underground expedition, the technician-captain of the Soviet army Cherepanov says:

“In one of the pillboxes, we went down the steel spiral staircases deep underground. By the light of lanterns we entered the underground subway. It was precisely the subway, as the railway track ran along the bottom of the tunnel. The ceiling was without signs of soot. The walls are neatly lined with cables. Probably, the locomotive here was driven by electricity. The group entered the tunnel not at the beginning. The entrance to it was somewhere under the forest lake. The entire route rushed to the west, to the Oder River. Almost immediately discovered an underground crematorium. Perhaps it was in his ovens that the remains of the dungeon builders were burned. Slowly, with precautionary measures, the search party moved through the tunnel in the direction of modern Germany. Soon they stopped counting the tunnel branches - dozens of them were discovered. Both right and left. But most of the branches were neatly walled up. Perhaps these were approaches to unknown objects, including parts of the underground city? It was dry in the tunnel - a sign of good waterproofing. It seemed that on the other, unknown side, the lights of a train or a large truck were about to appear, vehicles could also move there. The group moved slowly and after a few hours of being underground began to lose the feeling of really passed. The study of a mothballed underground city, laid under forests, fields and rivers, is a task for specialists of a different level. This different level required a lot of effort, money and time. According to our estimates, the subway could stretch for tens of kilometers and "dive" under the Oder. Where further and where its final station - it was difficult even to guess. Soon the leader of the group decided to return.”

In the town of Kenynitsk, the SS division "Dead Head", a garrison, two regiments, a school of the SS division and support units were stationed. The location and structure of the town is analogue, i.e. standard, as in Legnica, Friedental or Braniewo. Behind the stone wall - a line of barracks buildings, a heated parade ground, sports grounds, a canteen, a little further - headquarters, classrooms, hangars for equipment and communications. Lake approaches the town from the north. Kshiva (Rus. Cauldron). Lake mirror area Kshiva is at least 200 thousand square meters. m, and the depth scale is from 3 (in the south and west) to 20 m. In the eastern part of the lake at a depth of 20 m there is a large hatch that could be destroyed if necessary and the waters of the lake could flood the entire underground facility. The retreating SS troops had such an opportunity, and even the Gehlen intelligence of the new Germany, but they did not. Why?

The core of the underground facility, which was located under Lake Kshiva, was connected by tunnels to the Fau plant and strategic storage facilities located in the area of ​​the villages of Vysoka and Peski, which is 2-5 km to the west and north of the lake. Just like in Legnica, one of the entrances to the underground complex is located in the barracks of the SS town under the stairs.

SS object No. 2 "Werwolf" ("Armed wolf") - the territory of the Soviet Union. Headquarters in Ukraine, 8 km north of the city of Vinnitsa; nearby were the villages of Kolo-Mikhailovka and Strizhavki. Initially, this headquarters was planned to be built in Lubny, Poltava region, but the activity of the partisans nullified this initiative. The construction of the headquarters began in the autumn of 1941, by April 1942 the main work on the above-ground part was completed. The protection was carried out by part of the SS division "Adolf Hitler". 20 km from the village. Strizhavki at the airfield Kalinovka based two regiments of fighter aircraft. According to documents, A. Hitler visited his headquarters three times, riding a boat along the Southern Bug. The headquarters was designed in such a way that, if necessary, Hitler could move along the river south to Nikolaev, and then to the Black Sea. On December 23, 1943, Hitler ordered the conservation of the headquarters.

On March 7, 1944, the entrances to the underground part of the headquarters were blown up. On March 13, 1944, Soviet troops captured part of the territory of the headquarters, and already on March 16, selected SS units drove out the advanced forces of the Red Army. On February 14, 1945, by a secret decree of I. Stalin, the headquarters was mothballed. The first working name of the headquarters was "Oak Grove" (Eichenheim), not far from Vinnitsa in the village of Voronovitsovo, in the house-museum of Mozhaisky, the headquarters of the Abwehr was located (Valli-1, Valli-2, Valli-3 and "Foreign armies East" - leader Reinhard Gehlen) . The underground city is a complex multifunctional complex stretching south from Nemirov and further north to Zhitomir (Heinrich Himmler's headquarters) and 30 km north of Vinnitsa (Hermann Goering's headquarters). Hitler's headquarters consisted of three underground tiers of protection, A. Hitler's personal train, 12 armored cars, completely entered the station to the third floor-tier of the underground city, to the main 7-storey underground building. The Fuhrer's apartments were located on the 5th floor from above. Room No. 3 was not examined by Soviet intelligence. What is in it and why it was not opened is a big question.

To implement the Lebensborn facility program, 5 thousand of the most beautiful Slavic women in Vinnitsa and nearby villages were selected, and on July 19, 1941, the Lebensborn field office started working at full capacity. Today, the grandchildren of those who were born under the secret program live in the area of ​​the headquarters. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the separation of Ukraine from Russia were implemented by this genetic undercover bookmark.

Special SS facilities located on the territory of Poland cannot be considered separately from similar ones in Germany, since they form a single system. The system is a giant radio board of waveguides and magnetrons capable of generating Vril (giant collider) power.

"Adlerhorst" ("Eagle's Nest") - the ancient castle "Ziegenberg", located high in the mountains near the city of Bad Nauheim at the foot of the Taunus ridge. In 1939, Hitler commissioned Albert Speer to build this headquarters in West Germany; 1 million marks were spent on the construction and modern communication lines.

“In 1945, during the Rundstedt offensive, Hitler temporarily moved to headquarters in the Nauheim area. This rate was called "Adlershorst". The headquarters was located in the castle, around which a group of bunkers was built, adapted to the surrounding mountainous and rocky terrain.

Due to the fact that the castle could be easily detected from the air, several wooden houses were built in the forest two kilometers from the castle, where Hitler was from December 22, 1944 to January 15, 1945. There was only one bunker for Hitler. All the buildings were well camouflaged with trees so that even up close it was difficult to detect anything. The castle at that time housed Field Marshal Rundstedt with his headquarters.

All headquarters for Hitler had a bedroom and a bathroom. If until 1944 these premises were located in wooden barracks near the bunker, then after they were also transferred to the bunker. Constant evaporation of reinforced concrete required additional oxygen supply to the premises. Oxygen cylinders were located outside the bunker to avoid the consequences of their possible explosion. The filling of oxygen cylinders was carried out under the supervision of members of the secret police (Gestapo). Oxygen was supplied to the premises through lead pipes. These cylinders were systematically tested for all types of their technical indicators.

Castle "Felzennest" ("Nest in the rock") was located high in the mountains on the right bank of the river. Rhine. The mountain on which the castle stood was in the immediate vicinity of the village of Rodert near the town of Bad Munstereifel. “The Felsennest headquarters, the Eiskirchen area, 35 km east of the Rhine, was a group of bunkers in the area of ​​​​the western rampart. It was called "The Nest in the Rock" because Hitler's bunker was built in natural rock."

"Tannenberg" ("Spruce Mountain"). “The Tannenberg headquarters was located in a wooded area of ​​the Black Forest. The nature of the surrounding area suggested this name.

"Wolfschlucht" ("Wolf Gorge"). “The headquarters in the Prue de Peche area on the Belgian-French border was called Wolfschlucht. The rate was located in the houses of a small town. The church that used to be there was demolished so that it would not serve as a guide from the air. In addition, there was a bunker for Hitler and one common bunker in case of an air attack.

“Rere” (“Tunnel”), “The headquarters in the Vesnev region (Galicia) was located in a specially built tunnel with reinforced concrete walls and floors 1.5–2 m thick. A railway line was connected to the tunnel so that, if necessary, it could drive up Hitler's special train. The tunnel was built at the foot of a wooded hill and well camouflaged from above so that it could not be detected by air reconnaissance.

In this rate, Hitler stayed only for one night in 1941 during Mussolini's arrival at the front. From here they then flew together to Uman.

In addition, under the camouflage name "Silesian Construction Joint-Stock Company", in the fall of 1943, construction began on a new Hitler's headquarters in the area of ​​Schweidnitz (Silesia). However, only earthworks were carried out, since the final construction of this rate required at least one more year. The construction of the Frankenstein castle was almost completed, where Ribbentrop and foreign guests coming to Hitler's headquarters were to be accommodated.

In 1941, between the cities of Soissons and Laon (France), there was also Hitler's headquarters, reminiscent of the nature of the buildings (bunkers) there in the region of Rastenburg. This rate was called "West-2".

Construction work was also started on the construction of rates "West-1" and "West-3" in the area of ​​the city of Vandom. In 1943, they fell into the hands of the allied forces in an unfinished state.

"Underground Reich". All three programs under the auspices of the SS were rooted in depth, where underground facilities were integrated into a single complex of factories, institutes, and laboratories. The leadership of the Third Reich was faced with the task of connecting all the sea castles of the "Baltic Bastion" into a single underground-underwater complex, where "flying discs" and the main component of their protection, the Kriegsmarine submarine fleet, could take a key place.

This version makes one think that aircraft factories could produce not only aircraft, but also something else, since the loading of finished products took place on submarines directly in the underground bunker part of the factories.

On the territory of Eastern Poland there was a Heidelager training missile range, the town of Blizna, 150 km northeast of Krakow. From Krakow, the tunnel goes in the direction of Ukraine: Lviv - Vinnitsa (Hitler's headquarters "Werwolf") - Nikolaev - Sudak (Black Sea).

Another secret underground route ran through Bialystok (Poland), Erich Koch's castle, then the territory of Belarus, Grodno - Minsk, Hitler's headquarters "Krasny Bor" ("Bear's Lair"), Smolensk.

The strategic tunnel went in the direction of Berlin along the line Blizna - Krakow - Wroclaw - Legnica - Cottbus - Berlin. In the town of Legnica, the SS Panzer Division "Dead Head" (division commander Theodor Eicke) was based. The entrance to the dungeon starts in one of the division's barracks under the stairs. Not far from the town of Legnica is the town of Tscheben, where the test site for "flying discs" was located, which were manufactured at the underground factory in Wroclaw (Breslau). A very interesting coat of arms near the city of Legnica: two keys that denote two sources - living and dead water.

The tunnels of the fortified area "Lair of the Earthworm" go south and north (52°24'52.47"N 15°29'25.73"E). A large network of tunnels with underground barracks and warehouses and ground pillbox systems. One of the tunnels goes under the river. Oder from Berlin to Stettin and Peenemünde (missile range). All of the above facilities in Poland and East Prussia were secretly connected underground with similar facilities in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Moravia, Slovakia, East Prussia, and France. River channels, locks, metro, other communications, straits, bays of the Baltic Sea were used for the hidden connection of objects.

Object No. 3 "Olga S-III" - East Germany, Thuringia - A. Hitler's reserve underground headquarters began to be built at the end of 1944, was located in a triangle between the cities of Arnstadt, Ohrdruf and Weimar-Buchenwald and the castle of Countess Rudolstadt. One of the bunkers was located in the town of Jonasztal (built in 1942). The curator of the object was the Secretary of State Stuckart - Erich Koch's liaison. From Weimar, the metro tunnel went north to the central control center for all 40 underground structures (bunkers, headquarters, laboratories, factories) of the Third Reich in Berlin. On the territory of the city of Ohrdruf there was a training ground, which was equipped with reinforced concrete underground casemates, pillboxes.

Underground galleries lie at a depth of 3-4 m and connected the town (barracks) of the SS division and the training ground. The floor of the gallery was lined with ribbed metal plates, under which a protected high-voltage cable in 20 rows lay in a niche. Here, underground, there was a workshop equipped with a machine park, a little further there were three high-capacity diesel power plants. One of the exits upstairs went up a spiral staircase in one of the apartments of the military camp of the SS division. The entrances to the underground citadel of the object "Olga S-III" were in the castle of Countess Rudolstadt, a beautiful medieval masterpiece on the mountain, as well as in the castle near the town of Rochlitz, in the Kremsmünster monastery. Not far from Göttingen, Lower Saxony, there are objects of interest to us - the salt mines "Haldasgluk" and "B", "Wittekind", ammunition depots (depth - 700 m), Volprihausen township, Moringen concentration camp. In Weimar, Hitler was simply in love and built a headquarters especially for his girlfriend Olga Knipper-Chekhova. One of the bunkers is under the town square, where his government communications post was.

It is a very interesting fact that all the people who served in the GSVG at this special closed communications facility of the 62nd Stalingrad Army in the GDR died under various everyday, or even simply mysterious, circumstances. 25 tunnel entrances pierce into the belly of the mountain, on which the airfield was equipped. Aircraft were brought to the airfield by lifts, like on aircraft carriers. About 70 thousand prisoners of war from the Buchenwald camp, which was located near Weimar, took part in the construction of the underground headquarters. Basically, the underground capital of the Reich was built by Soviet prisoners, who were then destroyed. By the beginning of 1945, 40 thousand apartments for the state, party and military apparatus were ready in the "underground capital", comfortable shelters and numerous food and clothing warehouses were equipped. The transfer of the Fuhrer and his entourage here was planned for the spring of 1945, but was never carried out. However, it was in the "Olga" in the last months of the war that the most valuable treasures of the Reich began to flock.

The fact is that "Berlin-2" was the most powerful in Germany, and perhaps even in Europe, a network of dry, well-equipped dungeons and mines. The following facilities were located here: "Nordhausen" - underground factories for the production of rocket technology ("V-1", "V-2"), In Mount Konstein near Nordhausen on a total area of ​​560 thousand square meters. m at great depth lies the underground missile plant of the Mittelwerk company. The production of V-rockets was concentrated in 19 underground galleries, all underground facilities were connected by a narrow-gauge metro system. Here, underground, work was underway on the Kolokol anti-gravity engine. In Bernterode there were underground storages for ammunition and a storage place for the ashes of Frederick the Great, as well as jewelry. Merkers is an underground repository of Germany's gold reserves, museum valuables. Friedrichrod - Hitler's residence "Wolfsturm"; "Oberhof" - underground Reich Chancellery; "Ilmenau" - the residence of the imperial ministries; "Stadtilm" - a research center for the creation of nuclear weapons; Kala is an underground aircraft factory.

The videotape contains a document certifying that 100 wagons were prepared to send goods to the alternate capital, some of which, including those with Germany's gold reserves, were sent to their destination in March 1945. The most interesting footage from the military chronicle from liberated reserve capital of the Reich: April 19, 1945, US President Eisenhower inspects the object "Olga", visits the prisoner of war camp and the storage of works of art. On the screen - a huge number of paintings, sculptures, items made of precious metals ... And now the same vaults are shown a few weeks after the American troops handed over the territory to the Soviet military administration. They are completely empty! Where have the values ​​gone? Today they are at Fort Knox.

"Dennitz has repeatedly spoken out about the role of the Navy in the development of exotic weapons and the construction of secret military bases far beyond the Reich."

The first program was responsible for the development of new projects of "flying discs", the second - for reconnaissance and esoteric support of strategic agents, and the third - for hidden bases, that is, it was the basis of the control pyramid from the two poles of the world.

In 1942, a special structure was created, which was codenamed "Sonderburo-13". It included 13 research enterprises, institutes, departments. Each enterprise led a separate project "Fergeltung" "V" and had its own secret range in the Arctic and Antarctic, where "flying discs" landed for testing purposes. These ranges were disguised as meteorological stations of the Navy and passed under the agreed names.

The Sonderburo-13 was led by the 12th knight of the Black Order, SS Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler, his deputy was the general director of the Skoda factories, SS Standartenführer Wilhelm Voss.

Within the framework of this bureau, a secret project (“Fergeltung”) was developed - “Weapon of Retribution”: “V-1”, “V-2”, “V-3”, “V-5” and “V-7”, “V -nine". The bureau was an integral part of the Ahnenerbe iceberg.

Reference: SS Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler (Kammler b. 08/26/1901) - a graduate engineer, joined the SS on May 20, 1933. group "S" (construction) of the Main Economic Directorate of the SS). He was the author of the plan for a 5-year program to organize SS concentration camps in the occupied territories of the USSR and Norway. Kammler took part in the design of the Auschwitz death camp (Oswiecim).

On September 1, 1943, Kammler was appointed special commissioner of the Reichsführer SS under the A-4 program (“weapon of retaliation”); was responsible for construction work and the supply of labor from the concentration camps.

In March 1944, Kammler, as Himmler's representative, is included in the "aviation headquarters", consisting of senior officials of the Luftwaffe and the Ministry of Armaments. Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, head of the Luftwaffe and Hitler's nominal successor, instructs him to move all strategic air installations underground. Since March 1, 1944, Kammler has been directing the construction of underground factories for the production of fighter aircraft.

In 1945 he was awarded the Knight's Cross for military merit with swords, the main participant in the construction of the secret 211th base in Antarctica "New Berlin".

The scientific director of the Uranus project was the physicist Baron Wernher von Braun, a member of the Thule and Vril societies, and his closest assistant was the rocket engineer Willie Ley. The secret group of developers included prominent scientists and employees of Ahnenerbe Viktor Schauberger, Dr. Otto Schumann, Hans Kohler, Rudolf Schriever, A. Busemann, Arthur Sack, Giuseppe Beluntstso, Zimmermann, Klaus Habermol, Richard Mite, Hermann Oberth, Eigen Senger, and Bredt, Helmut Walter, Friedrich Sander, Max Valier, Kurt Tank. Klaus Habermol was taken prisoner by Soviet troops at the Letov factory near Prague.

The Research Center for German Rocket Engineering - the Head Center for Rocket and Disk Engineering - was located on about. Peenemünde in the Baltic Sea, where about 7.5 thousand specialists worked on the implementation of this program.

The secret facilities where work was underway to create and deploy flying discs in the future were located in Northern Italy on Lake. Garda, the town of Volkenrod, and Lake Geneva (an island, the castle of the Baramey family), in the mountains of dwarf Andorra, where there are hot springs.

The main projects of "flying discs"

VRIL (tested in 1939, 4 products were manufactured, the development was carried out by the group of V. Schumann).

VRIL-41 Jngel (tested in 1942, 17 discs made, diameter 11 m).

VRIL-Zerstorer (armament - one cannon, caliber 80 mm; two cannons MK108; two machine guns MG-17).

Haunebu I (disk diameter 25 m).

Haunebu II (disk diameter 23 m).

Haunebu III (disk diameter 71 m, developed in 1945).

Haunebu IV (disk diameter 120 m).

Haunebu Mark V (sample launched in February 1945, underground complex Kala, Thuringia).

Disc "Belonzze" (developed since 1942).

Disc "Rudolf Schriever-Habermohl".

Flying pancake "Zimmerman".

Omega disc by Anders Epp.

Focke-Wulf-500, codenamed "Thunderball" by Kurt Tank.

"Andromeda" - sea container 138 m for the transportation of "flying discs".

Research centers where "flying discs" were developed: Stettin, Nordhausen, Dortmund, Essen, Peenemünde, Breslau (Wroclaw), Prague (Letov plant and the Harz mountain range), Pilsen (Czech Republic), Dresden, Berlin (Spandau) , Stassfurt, Wiener Neustadt (Austria), Unzenburg (underground in old salt mines), Black Forest (underground Zeppelin Werke plant). All these points are key in our study.

At the underground plant "Zeppelin Werke", the town of the Black Forest, they produced plasma weapons " Feuerball"("Fireball") and Kurt Tank's plane " Kugelblitz" ("Fireball"). Development of plasma weapons Feuerball"led by Hermann Goering Air Force FFO ( Flugfimk Forschungsanstalt Oberpfaffenhoffen).

A non-serial disk "Haunebu" was developed for Hans Kohler's engines. The development of "flying discs" or weapons of retaliation "V" was carried out by several research groups (institutes): in Prague (at the factories "Skoda", "Pilsen", "Letov") the development was carried out by the group of Rudolf Schriever - Klaus Habermohl, in Dresden and Breslau, Lower Silesia, today Wroclaw, - a group of Richard Mite - Giuseppe Belontse. The first Prague model was created by engineers Rudolf Schriver and Klaus Habermohl, tested in February 1941 by Klaus Habermohl in 1946–1955. worked in the Soviet Union on secret programs. Their "flying disc" is considered the world's first vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. By design, it resembled a streamlined aerodynamic disk: a wide ring rotated around the cockpit, vertical and horizontal nozzle rudders regulated the pitch angle of attack. The pilot could put the device in the desired position for both horizontal and vertical flight. Soviet designers used these elements and technologies in the creation in 1974 of the Yak-38, then Yak-141, vertical takeoff and landing carrier-based naval aviation on the aircraft-carrying ships "Kyiv" and "Minsk". German scientists have created a "vertical plane", which was an improved version of the previous aircraft. The size of the device was increased to accommodate two pilots lying in chairs. The pilots for this project were recruited by Otto Skorzeny.

Underground Austria

The Bavarian Hirschberg castle near Weilheim, 50 km southwest of Munich, where Hitler was staying in October 1944. Prisoners from the Dachau camp were recruited for underground work. Operation Griffin was planned in this castle. This small bunker was integrated and focused on Salzburg - one of the peaks of the "Alpine fortress". The "Alpine fortress", or "Alpine redoubt", was located in a triangle between the cities of Linz, Salzburg and Graz in the mountainous region of Tyrol. The main entrances to the underground city were located near the lake. Wildesee, in the region of the Dead Mountains, the reference point is the Reichfang mountain. It was here that one of the entrances to the underground state of the Third Reich was equipped.

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The underworld belongs to the nagas In Hinduism, the nagas own the underworld - patala. It is the capital of the Nagas - Bhogavati. Nagas guard the countless treasures of the earth. Perhaps, treasures were understood to mean metals, precious stones, posthumous decorations of tombs and

From the book Moscow Underground author Burlak Vadim Nikolaevich

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An interesting article about the dungeons of the Third Reich

Legends have been circulating about this area, circulating and will continue to circulate for a long time, one darker than the other.

“Let's start with,” says one of the pioneers of the local catacombs, Colonel Alexander Liskin, “that near a forest lake, in a reinforced concrete box, an insulated outlet of an underground power cable was discovered, instrumental measurements on the cores of which showed the presence of industrial current with a voltage of 380 volts. Soon the attention of the sappers was attracted by a concrete well, which swallowed water falling from a height. At the same time, intelligence reported that, perhaps, underground power communication was coming from the direction of Miedzyrzecz. However, the presence of a hidden autonomous power plant, and also the fact that its turbines were rotated by water falling into a well, were not excluded. It was said that the lake was somehow connected to the surrounding water bodies, and there are many of them here.

The sappers discovered the entrance to the tunnel disguised as a hill. Already in the first approximation, it became clear that this is a serious structure, moreover, probably with various kinds of traps, including mines. It was said that once a tipsy foreman on his motorcycle decided to ride through the mysterious tunnel on a bet. We didn’t see the scorcher again.”

Whatever they say, one thing is indisputable: there is no more extensive and more branched underground fortified area in the world than the one that was dug in the river triangle Warta - Obra - Oder more than half a century ago. Until 1945, these lands were part of Germany. After the collapse of the Third Reich, they returned to Poland. Only then did Soviet specialists descend into the top-secret dungeon. We went down, marveled at the length of the tunnels and left. No one wanted to get lost, explode, disappear into giant concrete catacombs that stretched tens (!) kilometers to the north, south and west. No one could say for what purpose double-track narrow-gauge railways were laid in them, where and why electric trains ran through endless tunnels with countless branches, dead ends, what they transported on their platforms, who was a passenger. However, it is known for certain that Hitler at least twice visited this underground reinforced concrete kingdom, coded under the name "RL" - Regenwurmlager - "Earthworm Camp".

What for?

Under the sign of this question is any study of a mysterious object. Why was the gigantic dungeon built? Why are hundreds of kilometers of electrified railways laid in it, and a good dozen more all kinds of “why?” and why?"

A local old-timer - a former tanker, and now a taxi driver named Jozef, took with him a fluorescent lamp, undertook to take us to one of the twenty-two underground stations. All of them were once designated by male and female names: “Dora”, “Martha”, “Emma”, “Berta”. The closest to Miedzyrzech is “Henrik”. Our guide claims that it was to his platform that Hitler arrived from Berlin in order to go from here already over the surface to his field headquarters near Rastenberg - “Wolfschanze”. This has its own logic - the underground route from Berlin made it possible to secretly leave the Reich Chancellery. Yes, and to the "Wolf's Lair" from here just a few hours away by car.

Jozef drives his Polonaise down the narrow highway southwest of the city. In the village of Kalava, we turn towards the Scharnhorst bunker. This is one of the strongholds of the defensive system of the Pomor Wall. And the places in the area are idyllic and do not fit in with these military words: hilly copses, poppies in the rye, swans in the lakes, storks on the roofs, pine forests burning from the inside with the sun, roe deer roam.

WELCOME TO HELL!

A picturesque hill with an old oak tree on top was crowned with two steel armored caps. Their massive, smoothed, slotted cylinders looked like Teutonic knightly helmets, "forgotten" under the shadow of an oak crown.
The western slope of the hill was cut off by a concrete wall one and a half human height, into which an armored hermetic door was cut into a third of an ordinary door and several air intake holes, again taken away by armored shutters. They were the gills of an underground monster. Above the entrance is an inscription sprayed from a spray can with paint: “Welcome to hell!” - "Welcome to Hell!"

Under the close eye of the machine-gun embrasure of the flank battle, we approach the armored door and open it with a long special key. The heavy, but well-oiled door swings open easily, and another loophole looks into your chest - a frontal battle. “Entered without a pass - get an automatic burst,” her blank, unblinking gaze says. This is the chamber of the entrance vestibule. Once upon a time, its floor treacherously failed, and an intruder flew into the well, as was practiced in medieval castles. Now it is securely fixed, and we turn into a narrow side corridor that leads into the bunker, but after a few steps is interrupted by the main gas lock. We leave it and find ourselves in a checkpoint, where the guard once checked the documents of all incoming people and held the entrance pressure door at gunpoint. Only after that you can enter the corridor leading to the combat casemates, covered with armored domes. One of them still has a rusty rapid-fire grenade launcher, another housed a flamethrower, the third housed a heavy machine gun. camouflaged emergency exit.

One floor below - warehouses of expendable ammunition, a tank with fire mixture, an entrance trap chamber, it is also a punishment cell, a sleeping compartment for a shift on duty, a filter-ventilation enclosure ... Here is the entrance to the underworld: wide - four meters in diameter - a concrete well plummets down to a depth of a ten-story Houses. The beam of the lantern highlights the water at the bottom of the mine. A concrete staircase descends along the shaft in steep narrow flights.

“There are one hundred and fifty steps,” says Jozef. We follow him with bated breath: what is below? And below, at a depth of 45 meters, there is a high-arched hall, similar to the nave of an old cathedral, except that it was assembled from arched reinforced concrete. The shaft, along which the staircase wound, breaks off here in order to continue even deeper, but already like a well filled almost to the brim with water. Does it have a bottom? And why does the shaft hanging over it rise up to the casemate floor? Joseph doesn't know. But he leads us to another well, narrower, covered with a manhole cover. This is a source of drinking water. Might as well grab it now.

I look around the arches of the local Hades. What did they see, what was happening under them? This hall served the Scharnhorst garrison as a military camp with a rear base. Here, two-tiered concrete hangars “flowed” into the main tunnel, like tributaries into the channel. They housed two barracks for a hundred people, an infirmary, a kitchen, warehouses with food and ammunition, a power plant, and a fuel storage. Carriage trains also rolled up here through the airlock gas chamber along the branch line leading to the main tunnel to the Henrik station.

Shall we go to the station? our guide asks.

Jozef dives into a low and narrow corridor, and we follow him. The footpath seems endless, we have been walking along it at an accelerated pace for a quarter of an hour, but there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, and there will be no light here, as, indeed, in all the other "holes of the earthworm."

Only then I notice how cold it is in this cold underground: the temperature here is constant, both in summer and in winter - 10oC. At the thought, under what thickness of the earth our gap-path stretches, it becomes completely uncomfortable. The low arch and narrow walls compress the soul - will we get out of here? And if the concrete ceiling collapses, and if water gushes? After all, for more than half a century, all these structures have not known any maintenance or repair, they are holding back, and yet they are holding back both the pressure of the bowels and the pressure of water ...

When the phrase “Maybe we’ll return?” was already spinning on the tip of the tongue, the narrow passage finally merged into a wide transport tunnel. Concrete slabs made up a kind of platform here. This was the station "Henrik" - abandoned, dusty, dark ... I immediately remembered those stations of the Berlin metro that, until recently, were in a similar desolation, because they were under the wall that cut Berlin into eastern and western parts. They could be seen from the windows of the blue express trains - these caverns of time frozen for half a century ... Now, standing on the Henrik platform, it was not difficult to believe that the rails of this rusty double-track reached the Berlin metro.

We turn to the side. Soon, puddles sloshed underfoot, and drainage ditches stretched along the edges of the footpath - ideal drinkers for bats. The beam of the lantern jumped upwards, and above our heads moved a large living bunch, molded from bone-winged half-birds, half-animals. Cold goosebumps ran down the back - what a dirty trick, however! For nothing that is useful - eats mosquitoes.

They say that the souls of dead sailors inhabit seagulls. Then the souls of the SS must turn into bats. And judging by the number of bats nesting under concrete vaults, the entire “Dead Head” division, which disappeared without a trace in the 45th in the Mezeritsky dungeon, is still hiding from sunlight in the form of bat-winged creatures.

Get out, get out of here, and as soon as possible!

OUR TANK - OVER THE BUNKER
To the question “why the Mezeritsky fortified area was created”, military historians answer this way: in order to hang a powerful castle on the main strategic axis of Europe Moscow - Warsaw - Berlin - Paris.

The Chinese built their Great Wall in order to cover the borders of the Celestial Empire for thousands of miles from the invasion of nomads. The Germans did almost the same, erecting the East Wall - Ostwall, with the only difference that they laid their "wall" underground. They began to build it back in 1927, and only ten years later they completed the first stage. Believing to sit behind this "impregnable" shaft, the Nazi strategists moved from here, first to Warsaw, and then to Moscow, leaving captured Paris in the rear. The outcome of the great campaign to the east is known. The onslaught of the Soviet armies was not helped by anti-tank "dragon's teeth", nor by armored domes, nor by underground forts with all their medieval traps and the most modern weapons.

In the winter of the forty-fifth, the fighters of Colonel Gusakovsky broke through this “impassable” line and moved directly to the Oder. Here, near Miedzyrzech, the tank battalion of Major Karabanov, who burned down in his tank, fought with the "Dead Head". No extremists dared to break the monument to our fighters near the village of Kalava. It is silently guarded by the memorial "thirty-four", even though now it has remained in the rear of NATO. Its cannon looks to the west - at the armored domes of the Scharnhorst bunker. The old tank went into a deep raid of historical memory. At night, bats circle over him, but sometimes flowers are placed on his armor. Who? Yes, those who still remember that victorious year, when these lands, dug up by the "earthworm" and still fertile, again became Poland.

It seems that it is in Akunin's blog that such an inscription flaunts: "good is lost." So, of course, I’m not Akunin, but after writing a recently completed big novel, I also have a lot of all sorts of near-historical goodness left, mainly related to the Third Reich, and so that it doesn’t disappear, I will continue to spread a little. Maybe someone will be interested :)

I already had a post about the Hohenlichen hospital, where some Nazi bosses fled from their duties, with a bunch of photos (in fact, I have 20 times more of these photos), and there was something else under the tag “history” and “Germans”, about Metgeten, it seems (maybe I'll come back to it, although there is a terrible story), and today I'll write about Fürstenstein Castle.

What, in fact, this castle is interesting? Fürstenstein is a real Nazi Castle with Mysterious Dungeons, like in some computer toy of the "great foschists", and around it, in the mountains, the Germans dug and built even more interesting things during the war.

The castle is located on the territory of Poland, in Lower Silesia, the Polish name of the castle is Książ. The Germans called him Furstenstein.

Gates.

Fragment of the courtyard.

And this is how the castle could look in the 40s(the photo is modern, taken from the Polish forum, I don’t know what the hanging of these banners was timed to, maybe for the filming of some kind of film, and the inscription under this photo read: “And a special version for the fascists for whom we are so famous” ( although I'm not sure that I managed to correctly translate and understand the second part of the sentence :))

On one Polish site, some wonderful people posted an incredible cloud of old photographs of Ksionzh and even older landscapes and lithographs with him. Here are some, and the paintings show that either for a century and a half or two the castle hill has strongly settled, or simply the romantic perception of the then artists went off scale)))

The first mention of the castle dates back to the 13th century, and today Książ/Fürstenstein is one of the important tourist attractions in Poland. In 1941, the Nazis confiscated the castle from the Hochberg family, one of the richest Prussian dynasties, who had owned the castle since the early 16th century. The Nazis unceremoniously turned the venerable widow Hochberg out of the castle - not least because her sons fought on the side of the Allies. The unfortunate widow died two years later, and the Nazis started a grandiose construction in the castle and in the surrounding territories, new traces of which Polish researchers find to this day.

The Hochberg family, early 1920s

In 1943-44. a large bunker for Adolf Hitler was built under the castle. According to the assumption of some researchers, in general, the entire castle was supposed to be used as one of the Nazi residences, it was significantly rebuilt for this (and the old interiors suffered so much along the way that the Poles then restored the castle for several decades, and the Germans also stole all the collections collected by the Hochbergs, for example, nothing remains of the huge library of the castle). The bunker was two-level (but in my novel, I added a little levels, hehe, and expanded their purpose. Well, what's wrong, the Nazis could well have managed to destroy the most important thing before the arrival of the Red Army, right?;)). A bunker was built (and those structures that will be discussed later), of course, largely by the forces of concentration camp prisoners, in particular, prisoners were brought from the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. The first level of the bunker (on the plan below it is marked with brown lines) was at a level of 15 meters, the second level was at a depth of 53 meters (the concrete part of the bunker is marked in gray, the carved in the rock is black). Yes, actually, the past tense is inappropriate here, since the bunker still exists. Visitors seem to be allowed to enter the first level, and the seismological measuring equipment of the Polish Academy of Sciences is located on the second.

Plan of a two-level bunker; Mines are marked in blue.

Pre-war photos of the interiors of the castle:

According to information posted on one of the Polish websites, before the arrival of the Soviet troops, the Nazis really destroyed a lot, and the castle itself seemed to even be blown up.

But even more interesting is that not far from the castle, to the southeast, in the Owl Mountains, there are much larger underground structures left after the Nazis, and it is possible that the bunker under the castle was somehow connected with this huge complex in the mountains - according to plans, it seems, even had to be connected to it by an underground passage.

This complex quite rightly received the name "Riese" - "Rize" (German "giant"). Why this truly gigantic system of mostly underground, but also ground-based structures was needed - historians are still wondering. Many underground rooms are completely or partially filled up, many are still simply unknown, and every now and then new evidence is found in the forests of the Owl Mountains that the Nazis were building something truly grandiose there. It is quite possible that a huge underground factory was supposed to be built there. By the end of the war, the entire remaining German military industry was crawling “underground” due to the bombing.

Some of the researchers suggest that these dungeons could have been equipped with premises for the residence and work of both the leaders of the Third Reich and ordinary civilian and military personnel; others believe that the whole complex was intended for the covert mass production of chemical and bacteriological weapons. Another version says that many underground structures of the Giant complex, completely or partially destroyed before the arrival of the Red Army, however, have disguised and still unknown sections of the dungeon, where documents related to the Giant project are still located, and possibly also museum collections, jewels and money.
And although enthusiasts are constantly combing the surroundings of the castle, none of the above versions has been confirmed yet :) So in the novel, I put forward my own version, partly borrowing one myth-like apocryphal story about secret Nazi developments)))
It is only known for certain that the Giant was one of the largest and most expensive projects of the Third Reich.

Some evidence of the scale of the construction started by the Nazis was left by people who occupied far from the last places in the hierarchy of the then Germany.

Here, for example, is the testimony of Nikolaus von Below ("I was Hitler's adjutant"): "The plan, which we criticized again and again in these months, was the construction of a new, more extensive Headquarters of the Fuhrer in Silesia ... Its territory was to include the Furstenstein castle, which was in the possession of Prince Plessky. Hitler insisted on his instructions and ordered to continue its construction by the prisoners of concentration camps under the leadership of Speer. During the year I visited this object twice, and I got the impression that I would not live to see the completion of its construction. I tried to convince Speer to influence the Fuhrer in order to suspend this construction. He considered this The costly work went on for some time, though every ton of concrete and steel was desperately needed elsewhere.". ()

And Reich Minister of Armaments Albert Speer recalled in his memoirs: "In 1944, Hitler ordered the construction of two underground Headquarters in the mountains of Silesia and Thuringia, for which hundreds of specialist miners and explosives, and thousands of workers irreplaceable at military facilities ... On June 20, 1944, I reported to the Fuhrer that ... on a bunker complex called Giant near Bad Charlotenbrunn - 150 million marks... One Giant complex absorbed more concrete than all the public bomb shelters in 1944." ()

I will not write in detail about all the objects of the Gigant complex discovered to date, because it will take up a lot of space. I will show only the most remarkable photos and comment on them a little. The photographs were taken by contemporary Polish researchers.

The map below shows the approximate location of the objects of the complex, and in the upper left corner the Fürstenstein (Ksyonzh) castle is marked.

Part of the complex is open to visitors, and, as can be seen from individual photographs, something like a museum has even been created :)

This is how one of the entrances to one of the facilities of the underground complex, open to visitors, looks like:

Modern plans for a couple of objects(Researchers do not exclude that all this economy could be interconnected by underground passages, they are simply either filled up or simply not yet discovered. Or maybe they have not been built in time) Rooms flooded with water are marked in blue:

One of the corridors of the complex open to visitors(This is approximately how I imagine it was there under the Nazis. Dead lighting and the hum of ventilation. By the way, the depth of some ventilation shafts reaches 30 meters!)

More corridors. Some, apparently, remained unfinished.

The entrances to the underground complex may look like this:

Stacks of sacks of petrified cement. Have been lying for 70 years.

There are also remains of ground structures in the mountains - their purpose cannot be precisely determined, some of them are conventionally called by Polish researchers "officer's canteen", "power station", etc.

Here, for example, this design - I don’t even presume to judge its possible purpose)))

When writing the post, materials collected by Igor Osovin were used