This site, the Rastenburg Wolf's Lair, is located around 5km outside of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg). Hitler spent around 900 days here after 24 June 1941 and the invasion of the Soviet Union two days earlier.

Bomb Plot 1944:
Under the leadership of the Infantry General Friedrich Olbricht, the centre of the military resistance was formed in the Bendlerblock. It was here that Olbricht developed the Valkyrie operational plan into a plan for a coup d'état against Hitler. In October 1943 Colonel Stauffenberg was transferred to the General Army Office as Chief of Staff. His position gave him direct access to situation briefings in Hitler's headquarters, the Wolf's Lair. On July 20, 1944 he planted the bomb there and returned to Berlin.

The bomb went off, but Hitler survived. When news of Hitler's survival spread, the conspirators were unable to take control of Germany. Following the arrest of the conspirators in the Bendlerblock, General Olbricht, Graf von Stauffenberg, Werner von Haeften and Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim, all members of the uprising, were executed that same night in the courtyard of the building, by firing squad. A fifth plotter, Generaloberst Ludwig Beck, was offered the option of shooting himself.

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