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Bluebells. Forests full of them in Belgium
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/hitlers-forgotten-belgian-bunker.html
The Berlin bunker where Hitler spent the last days of the war and his life has been vividly described by historians and film-makers. Much less has been made of the bunkers that were built for him near Couvin in Wallonia’s Namur province, from where he directed the second stage of the French campaign in June 1940, and drew up the Armistice agreement after France capitulated.
Lost in the middle of a sprawling forest (12.000 hectares), Brûly-de-Pesche could have forever remained just another spot on the map. However, the events of World War II decided otherwise.
Ahead of the Führer’s arrival, the inhabitants of the village of Brûly-de-Pesche and 27 surrounding settlements were forced out of their homes on 28 May 1940.
Dr Todd and his team arrived to build bunkers & chalets ahead of the Furher’s arrival and Bruly de Pesche’s became the new headquarters, Hitler named it ‘Wolfsschlucht’ (The Wolf’s Ravine).
The church, which had its roof removed to act as a water catchment area, became the projection room (movies) and the school their map room.
Hitler flew in on 6 June to be closer to the French battlefields where he later prepared and corrected the documents laying out the peace terms for France, in which he returned the humiliations imposed on the Germans in the 1918 Armistice in the famous railway carriage. Hitler was quartered in one of the chalet close to one of two bunkers built above ground in woodland just outside the village.
After the war, all the German buildings except the concrete bunkers were destroyed by the villagers, but the chalets have since been rebuilt and turned into fascinating museums commemorating a crucial phase of World War Two. One of the buildings has a 20-minute film about Hitler’s arrival and a large collection of photographs charting the German occupation of the area.
Museum Bunker D’Hitler
Place Saint-Méen
5660 BRULY-DE-PESCHE (COUVIN)