I've been waiting for this moment for so long. It is 7:00am on a cold April morning in Warsaw. I'm standing on the sidewalk holding my backpack like if I'm ready to hitchhike with the first car that pulls over. I'm not. I'm waiting for Anna from Intopoland to pick me up to go to Wolfsschanze –Wolf's Lair– in Ketrzyn, Poland.
Wolf's Lair was Adolf Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia. Hitler spent nearly half of World War II (over 800 days) in this compound, which contains over 80 buildings including massive bunkers for high-ranking German Officials like Göring, Bormann, and Hitler, among others. It was here where decisions like the construction of the death camps and the fate of many European nations were made..
The 250-km-four-hour ride from Warsaw to Ketrzyn crosses through some of the most beautiful countryside, stuck-in-time villages and untouched valleys. This is the Poland that is rarely seen and visited. The farthest I am from Warsaw, the more foreign it feels.
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