Poland Kengteusin Location Known as 'Wolf's Den'
Adult Men and Women Plus Children's and Newborns' Remains Found
Five skeletal remains without hands and feet were found at the former hideout of Hermann G?ring (1893?1946), a German soldier who was Adolf Hitler's closest aide and the second-in-command of the Nazi regime.
On the 2nd (local time), daily newspaper S?ddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and others reported that recently amateur archaeologists from Germany and Poland discovered five skeletal remains in the residential area of the Nazi field headquarters in K?trzyn (German name: Rastenburg) in northeastern Poland and reported it to the authorities. The discovered remains consisted of two adult men, one woman, a child around 10 years old at the time of death, and a newborn, all missing hand and foot bones. Additionally, since no clothing or accessories were found with them, it is presumed that they were buried naked. The research team also suggested the possibility that the hand and foot bones had decayed.
The former Nazi field headquarters "Wolf's Lair" located in K?trzyn, northeastern Poland [Image source=Social Networking Service (SNS) capture]
This place, called the "Wolf's Lair" (German: Wolfsschanze), was Hitler's personal Eastern Front command headquarters during World War II. It was one of 22 command headquarters scattered throughout Germany and occupied territories. The Nazi headquarters has already been thoroughly investigated and has been a site visited annually by more than 200,000 tourists and amateur historians since the 1950s. The research team said they found the skeletal remains at a depth of 10 to 20 cm after removing the wooden floor of G?ring's residence and reported it to the police.
The Polish prosecution is investigating the time and circumstances of the burial of the remains. The research team proposed several hypotheses, including the possibility that this was a burial site before World War II or that civilians entered the restricted area during the war and were killed. At that time, the Nazis reportedly planted more than 50,000 landmines around the field headquarters.
Hitler, G?ring, and other Nazi leaders established a field headquarters composed of about 100 office and residential buildings in the K?trzyn forest in 1941 and conducted the war from there. Hitler spent 786 days at this location during World War II, and in July 1944, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Hitler here with a bomb disguised as a briefcase, but the attempt failed. G?ring, who was Hitler's right-hand man, founded the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo. His final rank was Reichsmarschall and Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, and he was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials the year after the war ended in 1946. When G?ring's method of execution was decided to be hanging instead of a soldier's execution by firing squad, he took his own life in his cell the day before the execution.
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