Maybach I and II

52°11′36″N 13°28′24″E / 52.1934°N 13.4733°E / 52.1934; 13.4733

A telephone exchange of the complex, 1942
Telecommunication service Zeppelin on 22 September 1939 during the Polish campaign
A bunker designed to look from the air like local housing
Photograph of a map of the layout of structures at the military complex at Zossen: Maybach I
An air-raid shelter of the Spitzbunker type

Maybach I and II were a series of above and underground bunkers built 20 kilometres south of Berlin in Wünsdorf near Zossen, Brandenburg, to house the High Command of the Army (in Maybach I) and the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces (in Maybach II) during the Second World War.[1] Along with the military fortress complex Zossen, Maybach I and II were instrumental locations from which central planning for field operations of the Wehrmacht took place, and they provided a key connection between Berlin’s military and civilian leadership to the front lines of battle.[2] The complex was named after the Maybach automobile engine.

  1. ^ Le Tissier (1996). Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin, p. 20.
  2. ^ Kaiser (2007). Vom Sperrgebiet zur Waldstadt: die Geschichte der geheimen Kommandozentralen in Wünsdorf und Umgebung, pp. 100–101.

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