Anlage Süd

Map showing the location of "Anlage Sud", and other Führer Headquarters throughout Europe.

Anlage Sud (English: Installation South) was one of headquarters of Adolf Hitler, where the leader of the German Third Reich stayed only for a few days, in late August 1941^[1], meeting with Benito Mussolini. It was constructed in Nazi-occupied part of Poland, between 1940 and 1941, along the secondary-importance railroad line from Rzeszów to Jasło. It consists of two campuses, one located in the village of Stepina (45 km. south of Rzeszów) and another located in the town of Strzyżów (30 km. south of Rzeszów).

The Stepina campus, where the Hitler-Mussolini meeting took place, consisted of a 480-metre long reinforced concrete rail shelter and a few maintenance and service buildings. Inside the shelter, there was a railroad track for Hitler's staff train and a platform. Walls, which still exist, are 2 metres thick, the shelter is 8.3-m wide and 12-m high,^[2]. The campus was constructed by the Todt Organization, using Polish forced labourers from nearby camps and it was connected with the Rzeszów-Jasło line by a specially built track. The Stepina tunnel is placed in an open field, in the Stepinka river valley.

According to historical photographs, it was here on 27–28 August 1941 that Hitler and Mussolini met to discuss the war with the USSR^[3]. Some sources also claim that Hitler came in his train Amerika to Anlage Sud in October 1941^[4].

See also

• Führer Headquarters

References

External links

• A photo of the bunker

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