Must-watch
Downfall
Here in the story
Base
In a forest headquarters, Hitler interviews young typists and chooses Traudl Junge as his secretary.
What happened here
Hidden in the forests of East Prussia near Rastenburg, today's Kętrzyn in Poland, the Wolfsschanze was Hitler's main headquarters from the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, and he spent more than 800 days there. On 20 July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg set off a briefcase bomb in its conference hut; Hitler survived. He left in November 1944, and the bunkers were blown up in January 1945.
Films and series set in Wolf's Lair
Is Paris Burning?
Here in the story
Base
Days after surviving the bomb plot, Hitler hands Choltitz command of Paris, trusting him to destroy it rather than lose it.
Valkyrie
Here in the story
Base
Stauffenberg arms the bomb, places his briefcase under the conference table and walks out before the blast.
