Former Nazi headquarters
Wolf’s Lair: Researchers discover skeletons in Hermann Göring’s house
Wolfsschanze was the code name for a military situation center of the command staff of the German Wehrmacht
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A research team comes across five skeletons in the former Nazi headquarters Wolf’s Lair. “We were completely shocked,” says one of the researchers. The corpses have “a shocking peculiarity.”
In the former Nazi headquarters Wolfsschanze, a German-Polish research team came across five skeletons during excavations in the house of the former Reich Marshal Hermann Göring. It is still unclear who the dead are. The “Spiegel” first reported on the terrible find.
“We were completely shocked,” said Oktavian Bartoszewski, who publishes the magazine “Relics of History,” in one Youtube channel. For some time now he has been investigating the area of the Wolf’s Lair together with the research association “Fundacja Latebra”; among other things, the researchers have dug up dishes and tools there.
This time, as Bartoszewski says on YouTube, they wanted to follow up on a clue about an old wooden floor. Ten centimeters underground they then came across bones: the remains of a human skull.
The researchers called the police, but they found no evidence of a recent crime. The team continued digging and discovered more bones. At first they thought they were animal bones. But then they realized: It was the skull of a newborn. “It’s the most horrific thing we’ve seen,” says Bartoszewski. As they continued digging, they found three more skeletons. Two of them belong to adults, the other to a child between the ages of seven and ten.
Corpses on the grounds of the Wolf’s Lair pose a mystery
“You could leave the matter alone now, but we won’t do that,” says the researcher. Ultimately, the corpses pose several mysteries: no remains of fabric were found on them, which suggests that they were buried naked. And then, says Bartoszewski, there is “another shocking peculiarity of the skeletons”: no hand or foot bones were discovered in any of them.
The researchers believe it is likely that the dead were only buried there after the house was built. Otherwise, those who laid pipes in the ground would have had to discover them, says Bartoszewski. Perhaps even Göring knew about the deaths. Göring was commander in chief of the Luftwaffe and head of the Reich Ministry of Economics. In the summer of 1941 he commissioned Reinhard Heydrich to make all the necessary preparations for organizing the genocide of European Jews. After the war, he was sentenced to death as one of the leading Nazi war criminals; he avoided his planned execution by committing suicide in October 1946.
The Wolf’s Lair was one of Adolf Hitler’s main residences during the Second World War. Here he was almost killed on July 20, 1944 in the assassination attempt by Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. The site is located in a wooded and moorland landscape, which offered natural protection against attacks. When the Red Army advanced in November 1944, the area in what was then East Prussia was evacuated, and in January 1945 the Wehrmacht blew up many buildings.
Different hypotheses
The researchers are now puzzling over who the dead could be and have various hypotheses. There used to be a cemetery in the area. In 1945, residents of the region could also have strayed onto the Wolf’s Lair site and then been shot. In both cases, however, this would not explain the lack of clothing and the hand and foot bones. It is also possible that Soviet or Polish secret service agents could have executed the group in the post-war years, which may have been “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Another hypothesis of the researchers is that the five people came from a home for mentally disabled people that was located nearby. Or it could be a case of occultism. After all, there was a secret society ten kilometers from the Wolf’s Lair that was said to have dealt with the occult.
According to reports, the public prosecutor’s office is still investigating, but the results have not yet been announced. The buildings are still closed. The researchers themselves are determined to continue pursuing the story and are asking for help: “We and Latebra are grateful for every tip from you. For every theory, no matter how obscure it may sound.” And they announce: “As soon as we have something new, we will report on it.”
This article first appeared at n-tv.de