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  5 JD, © Leif Petersen.  
         
 

     In Hoffmann Band II, Teil 1 p. 413 there is a passage that many of us have read many times and wondered.  It is part of an excellent memorandum prepared by II JK:

 
     
 

Anhang zu Gen.-Kdo. II Jagdkorps, Nafü 4, Br. B. Nr. 10155/44 geh. Gebhardt, Oberleutnant beim O. U., den 15. Januar 1944, Gen.-Kdo. II. Jagdkorps Nafü/4

  
         
 

VIII Der Divisions- und Korps Gefechtsstand Bunker Cäsar.

  
       Der Bunker Cäsar ist ein Korps- und Divisions Gefechtsstand mit einem Betonvolumen von 4000 cbm Beton und einer Rohbauzeit von 3 Monaten.  
       a) Baulich Zur Ausstattung eines Jagdkorps mit 4 Divisionen mit dem Bunker Cäsar sind 4 Divisions- und ein Korps-Bunker mit insgesamt 20 000 cbm Beton erforderlich.  
     
       When the GefStd bunkers of II JK and 5 JD "blossomed" in a more widespread audience I started to wonder again.  The feeling of being on to something, was reinforced when the GefStd of I JK was found in Treuenbrietzen.  The bunkers of II JK and 5 JD are almost identical, and the bunker of I JK has a great Look-Alikeness - judging from the one know photo, even the chimneys are similar.  
     
       The volume of concrete in II JK and 5 JD bunkers is 4.000 m3, the figure mentioned in the memo.  The bunkers are almost identical.  They serve a JK and a JD.  The memo uses the expression: Gefechtsstand Bunker Cäsar as if it is a type.  The JK bunker in Treuenbrietzen appears to by of a similar type.  
     
       To me the evidence is compelling; the bunker type: Gefechtsstand Bunker Cäsar has been identified.  
     
     
  Gefechtsstand Bunker Cäsar drawing.  
     
      The above drawing is an attempt at a reconstruction and a description of the functions performed in the various rooms.  It is based on multiple sources, and the room identification is based on the utilities/appliances left in the bunker to-day.  
     
       That, however, immediately raises another question.  CÄSAR has for decades somehow been associated with the I JK bunker in Zeist.  It is not identical, but somewhat similar to the 3 other bunkers, and has a concrete volume of about 4.000 m3 as well.  I find it justified to speculate if Cäsar was not a reference to THE TYPE of bunker.  The name Cäsar does not follow the German convention for naming of GefStds, the first letter should have been Z.  I have not come across an original German document, which refers to the I JK bunker as Cäsar.  
     
       Based on German maps related to the BfM, there has been speculation concerning a planned L 487 B in the Zeist area.  This bunker was never completed and the planned site was not the same as the site of the I JK GefStd.  Please see map below  
     
 

 
         
         
         
 

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