Appendix D

Wolf’s Lair Security 1941–1944

Security Zone I

RSD, SS-Begleitkommando

RSD (Rattenhuber Chief of HQ security)

FBB Guards

(Security mainly consisted of FBB guards, but later in the War more SS were used to increase security)

Security Zone II

FBB Guards

RSD, SS-Begleitkommando

Security Zone III & IV

FBB Quarters

III Platoon 2nd Company FBB

Guard Platoon 7 FFA

Search Light Section

Supply Section 1st Company FBB

Special Commando ‘W’

1st Company FBB

Signal Platoon

I Platoon 1st Company FBB

I Platoon 3rd Company

I Platoon 1st Company

FBB (2nd Lt Stumpf)

III Platoon 1st Company

FBB (Lt Seidte)

Troop Quarters

Office 1st Company

Fire Fighting Company

Enlisted men, Staff Commandant

II Platoon 3rd Company

III Platoon 3rd Company

FBB (Lt Pieper)

Officer 3rd Company

I Platoon 3rd Company (Lt Wegmann)

Guard House West

Guard House East

Guard House South

Guard Quarters

Guard House I

Sergeant Major Hildebrand

Quarters

Lt Kessel Quarters

II Platoon 1st Company FBB

II Platoon 1st Company FBB

Guard House II

Major Gnass Quarters

Officers Kasino 3rd Company

Throughout the Wolf’s Lair installation, guards manned the gun emplacements, bunkers, anti-aircraft gun towers, machine-gun towers, and machine-gun emplacements around the clock. On the outer perimeter of the headquarters there were a number of security guard posts of the FBB. Inside and outside the fences throughout the HQ area there were also telephones, waters taps, foxholes and short trenches, dugouts, munitions depots and minefields. Inside Security Zone III and IV were guard houses, special commandos, quarters, barracks and supplies of the FBB.