"Hitler spends more time at the Wolf's Lair than in Berlin--some eight hundred days in the last three years alone. The Fuhrer is fond of saying that his military planners chose the "most marshy, mosquito-ridden, and climatically unpleasant place possible" for this hidden headquarters. On humid summer days, the air is so heavy and thick with clouds of mosquitoes that Hitler remains in the cool confines of his bunker all day long. But"