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The Polish forestry office is inviting new management to take over the 250 hectare site of Hitler’s former command headquarters in northern Poland. The Wolfsschanze (Wolf Bunker) served as Hitler’s command complex for much of the war, and is best known as the site of the failed July 1944 bomb plot against him by members of the German military.
The site currently draws between 180,000 and 200,000 visitors a year, but it is hoped that with a $2 million upgrade and different management the number of visitors could increase by 20 percent.
The new contract for administering the site will require the new management to “attract children”, as well as history buffs.
It’s just my opinion, but making a chilling cement bunker where one of the greatest villans in history plotted and schemed appealing to children seems like a steep order. We’ll see what happens…
Read more at news.com.au