Special care was taken in its construction and security.
Some of the walls of the bunkers were 2 meters thick.
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We had to eat it all up.
Unfortunately, a fellow German officer unwittingly pushed the briefcase away deflecting the blast away from Hitler.
The Fuhrer survived with only minor injuries.
The complex was eventually blown up in January 1945.
Even then, the buildings were only partially destroyed.
It took over ten years for the surrounding ground to be cleared of over 54,000 land mines.
Today the site is a mess of toppled walls, crumbling bunkers and natural vegetation.
Since the fall of communism in 1990 it has been attracting a steady stream of visitors.
There is now a small exhibition room, and memorial plate for Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
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