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Wolf’s Lair

With the pandemic rampant, Webber finds comfort in the wilds of Poland’s Suwałki region

Nestled against the Lithuanian border, Suwalszczyzna (for the sake of simplicity, let’s refer to it from now as the Suwałki region), is more than a complex mass of randomized letters. TFN/PAP/Jaczno.pl

Nestled against the Lithuanian border, Suwalszczyzna (for the sake of simplicity, let’s refer to it from now on as the Suwałki region), is more than a complex mass of randomized letters.

Swastika-emblazoned boulder of Hitler’s Protection Battalion found in Wolf’s Lair

The boulder was used to mark the location of the barracks of the soldiers of the 1st Company of the battalion known as the Führer-Begleit-Bataillon, with the abbreviation F.B.B., which was formed in 1939 to protect the Fuhrer at the front.

Room of failed Hitler assassination plot recreated in fascinating detail

The reconstruction at the site of the Nazi leader’s Wolf’s Lair HQ, used archive documents, photographs, witness testimony and the knowledge of local guides to recreate the room as it was in July 1944.

Historians unearth the lost secrets of Hitler’s Wolf Lair fruit and veg plot

New excavations at Hitler’s Wolf Lair reveal just what the infamous dictator munched his way through for much of the war.

Could secret entrance to tunnel hidden in WWII bunker complex be hiding the Amber Room?

The entrance was found during a search of the area in northeast Poland using geo-radar. It has long been thought that the bunker complex, which lies close to where Hitler had his Wolf’s Lair HQ, could contain many WWII treasures, including the Amber Chamber.

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How Warsaw was rebuilt using mountains of post-war rubble illustrated in fascinating new exhibition

The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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