Vinnitsa has been occupied by nazi armies on
July, 19th, 1941. And in October 1941 in a wood grove between v. Strizhavka and v. Kolo-Mikhailovka near Vinnitsa, Hitler has begun building of the Werwolf .
German organisation "Todt" has begun building of confidential object
on which have collected more than 14 thousand prisoners of war. From Europe
have brought engineers, carpenters and other experts. It is interesting that
for the period of works to all experts nazis paid the salary. Workers varied
constantly: the exhausted people simply brought up to a peat hole on a
roadside, threw in it, and then finished them. After building has ended, paid
experts have dumped in the same hole. Subsequently all builders have been
destroyed, now in village Strizhavka there is a memorial the lost worker which
built the bunker.
How looked «Werwolf»,
anybody cannot precisely tell. According to the widespread version, there was a
complex from 81 land buildings and three bunkers, main from which left deep
into the earths on 8 floors. The thickness of walls made more than three meters
and allowed to sustain powerful bombing attack. Nearby there was a Gestapo,
apartment houses for generals and staff officers, pool and a dining room. At
«Werwolf» there were also the power station and airdrome and a telephone
exchange and even kitchen garden where grew up vegetables for Hitler who, as it
is known, was the vegetarian.
The Fuhrer came here
three times. The first time he has visited «Wehrwolf» in the summer of 1942 and
has stayed in territory till the autumn. Here Hitler has signed the instruction
on a capture of the Black Sea coast of Caucasus and Stalingrad. In the second
time he has visited under Vinnitsa in the winter of 1943, having signed here
the order on battle under the Kursk Arch, become critical in the Second World
War. In the summer of the same year Hitler has arrived here last time to decide
destiny of Donbas.
On March, 13th the
bunker has been grasped by the Soviet troops but Germans had time to set fire
to the bunker, and only three bunkers remained intact. Land constructions have
burnt down. In three days Germans have superseded liberators from the bunker.
Then German command has given the order to deliver in the bunker the explosive
and air bomb. «Werwolf» has been mined and has flied up in air. Explosion was
so strong that concrete blocks in weight about 20 tons has scattered on
distance to 60 meters! All systems have failed, and an underground unit of
bunkers has flooded with water.
What is hidden under
the ground - still a mystery. Some
argue that the underground bunker facilities remained intact and that there is
kept no one knows. For more than 60 years, "Werwolf" time to acquire
an incredible amount of legends and mysteries. Rate study was carried out after
the war. Then engineers inspected the underground room, but found nothing. In
1945, Stalin ordered preserve the bunker. Smeared rust inhibitor, evacuated
from the floors, sealed tube. Directed blast showered ground outs. Now the
upper floors of the dungeon destroyed, and the bottom may have been preserved.
The current rate is
fairly unique and interesting subject. Researchers have been able to resume the
exact size of the territory of the rate and its individual zones. Also, was
located central entrance, boiler, power station, water tower, water treatment
facilities, parade ground and CPR. But many mysteries remain
