Hitler's Headquarters in the West Then and Now

Hitler's Headquarters in the West Then and Now Author:Jean Paul Pallud Language:English Format:Hardback Pages:224 Photos:20 color illustrations, 230 mono illustrations Publisher:After the Battle ISBN:9781036101336 Item No. 9781036101336 The Führer Headquarters, Führerhauptquartiere abbreviated FHQu in German, were headquarters used by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and his close circle of commanders and officials. As Hitler directly controlled much of the German war effort, the FHQu were de facto military headquarters.At the beginning of the war, Hitler's railway train served as Führerhauptquartier, for example during the Balkans campaign in the spring of 1941, but the construction of Führerhauptquartiere, Hitler's Headquarters, was entrusted to the organization Todt, the Nazi civil engineering body.'Wolfsschanze' in East Prussia is well known, not least because of 'Operation Valkyrie', Oberst Claus von Stauffenb