Defense Industry Germany

For nearly three centuries, the region that today is marked on the political map as the German state of Brandenburg has stood in constant readiness for war. In the 18th Century, these pine-covered flatlands were the parade ground of Prussian military might; during the Nazi rearmament of the 1930s, they became the command and control center for Hitler's Wehrmacht.

An unmarked gravel path winds through new-growth forest on the fringe of this Bavarian town to a hidden vista of maniacal delusion: a massive concrete bunker where in 1945 the doomed Third Reich was plotting to rescue the lost cause of world domination.

An unmarked gravel path winds through new-growth forest on the fringe of this Bavarian town to a hidden vista of maniacal delusion: a massive concrete bunker where in 1945 the doomed Third Reich was plotting to rescue the lost cause of world domination.

For nearly three centuries, the region that today is marked on the political map as the German state of Brandenburg has stood in constant readiness for war. In the 18th Century, these pine-covered flatlands were the parade ground of Prussian military might; during the Nazi rearmament of the 1930s, they became the command and control center for Hitler's Wehrmacht.