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walked over to a hidden switch and the huge log slowly began to rise, revealing another hidden road that the truck caravan quickly drove down.   As soon as the last truck cleared, the trunk slowly returned to its normal position obscuring the hidden road.   After another half kilometer, the trucks stopped in front of a hill at the end of the road.   Again the guard stepped off, walked over to what looked like a large tree and pulled a hidden lever.   The hillside began to open like a giant clamshell revealing another huge steel door, a garage door large enough for the trucks to enter.   The guard ran over to a small speaker box and within a minute the steel door opened.   The trucks slowly entered a massive underground garage completely hidden within the hill.  
    The guys in the back of the truck decided to take another peek just as the trucks cleared the steel door and entered the garage.   They moved from the darkness of the night into a brightly lit cavernous garage.   Vogel pulled the canvas back so everyone could see.   The guards riding on the rear of the truck had stepped off.  
    “Holy shit, look at this place.   Can you believe this?” asked Mauer as he and the other two men peered out of the back of the truck, their eyes squinting at the brightness.    
    “Where the hell are we?” asked Vogel.  
    “I don’t know, but at least it’s nice and warm,” said Mauer.  
    A loud voice came over a loudspeaker.   “Park in Section A, Bay 2.”   The trooper on the lead truck motioned to the driver to move the truck over to the far end of the underground garage under the Section A sign painted on the far wall.   The six trucks pulled over and parked in line.   The soldiers and drivers jumped out and began milling around near the front of the first truck.   Quickly twenty-five armed SS troopers surrounded them all.  
    “You are to stay here with the vehicles until further orders,” a young SS leutnant barked looking directly at Mauer and Kruger.   The two along with the other men and drivers stood there amazed at their surroundings.  
    The garage was enormous.   Easily three stories high, there were several catwalks surrounding and crisscrossing the upper levels.   Every few feet there were heavily armed SS storm troopers watching everything going on in the garage.   There were several other balconies overlooking the floor area with several other doors leading into other areas of the complex.   The entire area was heated.   Mauer looked around.   This was one huge place!   He had never seen anything like this anywhere.   There were twenty-eight bays in seven sections denoted on the walls.   Looking around, there were at least a hundred workers scurrying around and that did not count the troopers above.  
    “Do you believe this place?” asked Vogel with his head cocked up looking at the catwalks above.
    “No, I do not,” answered Mauer sheepishly.   “Are we underground?”
    “We have to be,” whispered Vogel.   “This place is too big to be above ground.   The Allies would have bombed it for sure.” The noise of activity throughout the huge garage nearly drowned out their conversation.    
     

     
    After walking what seemed like nearly a kilometer through the complex, Reiniger, Rauch and Schneider stepped into another elevator and rode up several levels.   When the door opened they stepped into the massive underground garage.   Even with other work going on Rauch immediately spotted his truck caravan on the opposite side, far away from the other activity in the area.  
    “Gentlemen, this way, please,” directed Reiniger as they all walked together across the garage.  
    Schneider noticed a yellow double door opening near the parked trucks.   Several heavy carts loaded with crates were being pushed by soldiers toward the trucks.   The carts were steel with solid steel wheels.   They were built to carry very heavy loads.   As Rauch and the others walked up, they