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The location had unexpectedly been changed from the Führerbunker to Albert Speer's wooden hut due to the heat on this summer's day.
This repeats a common myth. Historians have shown the 20 July briefing was not simply moved from a bunker to a hut because of the heat; the meeting took place in the Wolfsschanze's designated Lagebaracke (conference barrack).
Full reasoning
The sentence blends two misleading ideas into one.
First, specialist research on the Wolfsschanze says the often-repeated story that the 20 July 1944 briefing was moved from a bunker because of the summer heat does not match the facts. In Peter Hoffmann's detailed study of the assassination site, he writes that the repeated claim that the meeting on 20 July was held in the wooden barrack because of the heat is incorrect, and that the Lagebaracke was already equipped for this purpose; only in case of air danger was a bunker room used.
Second, recent Bundeswehr documentation identifies the assassination site as the Lagebaracke of the Wolfsschanze, not simply "Albert Speer's wooden hut." Hoffmann notes that the building was sometimes called the "Speer-Baracke" only because it had formerly served Speer and his staff. Presenting it as if Hitler's briefing was unexpectedly shifted into "Albert Speer's wooden hut" on that day is therefore misleading.
So the problem is not merely wording: the claim reproduces a debunked explanation for why the meeting was there and misdescribes the building's role at the time of the attack.
2 sources
- Peter Hoffmann, "Zu dem Attentat im Führerhauptquartier 'Wolfsschanze' am 20. Juli 1944"
Hoffmann writes that it is "often asserted" the 20 July meeting was moved from a bunker because of heat or construction, but that this "does not correspond to the facts"; the relevant barrack, called the Lagebaracke, was set up for that purpose, and only in case of air danger was the briefing held in a bunker room.
- Die „Wolfsschanze“. Hitlers Machtzentrale in Ostpreußen
The Bundeswehr documentation identifies the assassination site as the "Lagebaracke" and notes that reconstructions at the Wolfsschanze depict the scene of the assassination attempt "in der Lagebaracke."