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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
, where the leader of the German Third Reich stayed only for a few days, in late August 1941, meeting with Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
. It was constructed in Nazi-occupied part of Poland
General Government
The General Government was an area of Second Republic of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II; designated as a separate region of the Third Reich between 1939–1945...
, between 1940 and 1941, along the secondary-importance railroad line from Rzeszów
Rzeszów
Rzeszów is a city in southeastern Poland with a population of 179,455 in 2010. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River, in the heartland of the Sandomierska Valley...
to Jasło. It consists of two campuses, one located in the village of Stepina (45 km. south of Rzeszów) and another located in the town of Strzyżów
Strzyzów
Strzyżów is a town in Strzyżów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland with 8,709 inhabitants . Strzyżów is one of the towns within the Strzyżowsko-Dynowskie Foothill, located 160 km south-east of Kraków. Its building arrangement extends in the river of Wisłok valley, chained together with...
(30 km. south of Rzeszów).
The Stepina campus, where the Hitler-Mussolini meeting took place, consisted of a 480-metre long reinforced concrete rail shelter and a few maintenance and service buildings. Inside the shelter, there was a railroad track for Hitler's staff train and a platform. Walls, which still exist, are 2 metres thick, the shelter is 8.3-m wide and 12-m high,. The campus was constructed by the Todt Organization, using Polish forced labourers from nearby camps and it was connected with the Rzeszów-Jasło line by a specially built track. The Stepina tunnel is placed in an open field, in the Stepinka river valley.
According to historical photographs, it was here on 27–28 August 1941 that Hitler and Mussolini met to discuss the war with the USSR. Some sources also claim that Hitler came in his train Amerika to Anlage Sud in October 1941.
