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Walim
In 1944 the construction sites in the Owl Mountains were allocated 28,000 tonnes of steel and cement – as much as the Third Reich set aside each year for air-raid shelters for its entire civilian population. Riese (German for "giant") was…
Fortifications
Walim
The Włodarz Complex (roughly "VWOH-dahsh") in Poland's Owl Mountains is one of three publicly accessible sections of Project Riese ("Giant"), Nazi Germany's vast and still mysterious underground construction program of 1943–1945. It is the…
Technical monuments
Walim
In the hillside above the village of Rzeczka, right by regional road 383, run rock-cut tunnels with a total length of about 500 m. This is the "Rzeczka" complex, one of seven underground sections of Project Riese ("Giant"), which Nazi Germ…
Fortifications
Walim
The Walim Adits (Polish: Sztolnie Walimskie, roughly "shtol-nyeh vah-leem-skyeh"), also known as the Rzeczka complex, are one of three sections of Nazi Germany's secret Project Riese that you can visit today. Hidden in the Owl Mountains of…