Located just 8km from Zhytomyr in the town of Huyva, "Hegewald" was a high-security command center built for Heinrich Himmler between 1941 and 1942. The entire 1,200-square-meter complex was constructed using Soviet POW labor, most of whom were executed or sent to camps once the project was finished to keep the location a secret.
The site served as the nerve center for "Generalplan Ost" and even featured a direct communication line to Hitler’s "Werwolf" bunker nearby. While the retreating Germans tried to hide their secrets by sealing the underground tunnels with concrete, the massive surface structures are still standing today. Interestingly, for decades during the Soviet era, locals didn't pay much attention to the site's dark history and simply used these bunkers with their 4.5-meter-thick walls as ordinary cold storage cellars for their winter preserves.
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