Valkyrie
is really Wolf's Lair (Wolfsschanze), Gierłoż, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
The multiplayer map Valkyrie is set in the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's headquarters in the forests of East Prussia, and is named after the 20 July 1944 plot to kill him there. Activision says the map shows the inner compound, with bunkers, checkpoints and the building where the bomb went off.
The real place
The Wolf's Lair was built from 1941 near Rastenburg, now Kętrzyn in Poland. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg's bomb exploded there on 20 July 1944 but failed to kill Hitler. German troops blew up the bunkers when they left in January 1945, and the huge concrete ruins still lie in the forest.
Visiting
The site is about 8 km east of Kętrzyn and has a ticket office, marked routes and guides. Stay out of the ruins: the broken concrete is unstable. A plaque marks the site of the briefing hut where the bomb exploded.
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