Anlage Süd

Anlage Süd (English: Installation South) was a pair of railway headquarters built for Adolf Hitler in the Nazi-occupied part of southern Poland during the Second World War.

[3] Both 480-metre long railway tunnels at Stępina and Strzyżów were built by the Todt Organization using Polish slave labor from nearby concentration camps.

Hitler’s train (German: Führersonderzug) stayed in the bunker at Strzyżów while Mussolini's engine and carriages were at Stępina.

The actual meeting to discuss the war with Soviet Russia, which lasted several hours, was held aboard Hitler’s train, which he never left.

Other prominent visitors to use Anlage Süd included Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and General Erwin Rommel.

The surviving military railway bunker at Stępina , which was part of Anlage Süd, July 2011
The former railway bunker at Stępina where the train of Benito Mussolini stayed in August 1941
Meeting of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Stępina , 27 August 1941