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Bunkers, Fortifications and Megastructures
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Registrace 21. 11. 2018
This channel is dedicated to bunkers, fortifications and megastructures of Great Britain and Europe, in World War One and World War Two time frame. I will try and explain to you what i am looking at, and a description, and some history behind the place. i will also visit museums and events. Thanks for watching.
PS. I am not an historian, or expert. I`m just an enthusiast, who has a passion for our past history, during this time frame.
PS. I am not an historian, or expert. I`m just an enthusiast, who has a passion for our past history, during this time frame.
Overloon Millitracks event
The Militracks event at Overloon Museum in the Netherlands is rapidly approaching. This is a video of what to expect if you decide to go and visit. The show is usually on in May, but you can go and visit the museum at anytime. Militracks is all about German WW2 vehicles which you can book a ride on most of them. There are a number of vehicles in this video, but I've not named them in case I get them wrong . lol. Links below to the museum and event itself. Thanks for watching !!
Overloon museum ( English version )
www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/en/
Militracks event
www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/en/events/militracks/
Overloon museum ( English version )
www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/en/
Militracks event
www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/en/events/militracks/
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Lager koralle U boat command centre in a forest movie
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Lager Koralle (also: camp Coral ) was the code name of a military facility north of Bernau near Berlin , in which the command centre of the High Command of the Navy (OKM) (Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine ) was located between 1943 and 1945 . In this video I go and explore what remains of this command centre and why it was situated in this area, which is no where near the sea !!. Thanks for watchi...
Rechlin `White` houses. Luftwaffe testing site. movie
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The origins of the Weiße ( white )Häuser Rechlin Hidden in a thick overgrowth and a fast growing forest in the northeast of Germany lies one of the last remnants of what Hitlers world capital Germania could have looked like. Hitlers secret city - known as the Weiße Häuser Rechlin - the White Houses, offer a disturbing glimpse into what could have been. To the north of Berlin lie the remnants of...
Maybach 1 and the Zepplin Bunker, Zossen movie
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Following on from the Winkelturm air raid shelter, I visit the near by Maybach I and Zepplin bunker systems, which were a series of above and underground bunkers built 20 kilometres south of Berlin in Wünsdorf near Zossen, Brandenburg, to house the High Command of the Army (in Maybach I) and the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces (in Maybach II) during the Second World War. Along with the mili...
Winkelturm Zossen Germany movie
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This is the first movie that I've put out for a long time, and as you can see why from the intro. My son lee died near the end of may 2023, just as i was about to go into Poland. I ended up travelling 1000 miles back to home just to be by his side before he passed away. Lee was only 42 years old...Two months later my dad passed away . So you can see that I and my family have not had a good year...
Abandoned Rangsdorf Airport movie
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Rangsdorf airfield is a former airfield in the municipality of Rangsdorf in the Brandenburg district of Teltow-Fläming. The airfield and buildings of which are now largely listed buildings . It was created in 1935-1936 as a water and land airport for civilian air sports ( Reichssportflughafen ), to which a flight school and the premises of Bücker Flugzeugbau ( aircraft construction) were attach...
SS Bakery. klinkerwerks and Funk Bunker , Sachsenhausen.
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Moving away from the SS barracks and Bathhouse, I travel the short distance to have a look at what is left of the SS bakery, Brickworks and an odd naming communications Bunker call Karo Ass. Nothing much left of any of these buildings, so I decided to link what footage that I took into one movie. It gives you an insite of what went on here in the 1930/40s. Thanks for watching !! #worldwartwo #l...
SS Bath House and Barracks. Sachsenhausen.
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I called into Sachsenhausen concentration camp to pay my respects to all those people who were imprisoned here, and who lost their lives at the hands of there captors. In my research on the camp, i came across some abandoned buildings just outside of the camp than once belonged to the camp guards known as the SS ( Schutzstaffel ) . The SS had a number of buildings that they occupied/used/ built...
Airfield Oranienburg Heinkel Factory movie
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Air Base Oranienburg (german: Flugplatz Oranienburg,) was built between 1936 and 1939 west of Oranienburg and north of Berlin in Brandenburg Germany. Founder of the airfield was Ernst Heinkel, who intended to start a new aircraft factory at the location. Originally the aircraft factory was intended only for serial construction of the new He111 airliner for German airline Lufthansa. The Luftwaff...
V1 ramp Asberg Germany movie
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Just outside the town of Remagen on the Rhine in Germany, which was made famous in the world war two film ` Bridge at Remagen` in an Heavily wooded area lies the remains of a V1 ramp concrete stantions. Now then , most of us know that the V1`s where mainly aimed at England, however when the allies captured the port of Antwerp on the 4 September. 1944 and the V sites where overrun after the D Da...
West Wall aka the Seigfrieg Line Part 2 of 2 movie
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The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall, was a German defensive line built during the 1930s (started 1936) opposite the French Maginot Line. It stretched more than 630 km (390 mi); from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of Nazi Germany, to the town of Weil am Rhein on the border with Switzerland - and featured more than 18,000 bunkers, tunnels and ta...
West Wall aka the Seigfrieg Line Part 1 of 2 movie
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The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall, was a German defensive line built during the 1930s (started 1936) opposite the French Maginot Line. It stretched more than 630 km (390 mi); from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of Nazi Germany, to the town of Weil am Rhein on the border with Switzerland - and featured more than 18,000 bunkers, tunnels and ta...
Fort De Loncin Belgium
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Fort de Loncin is one of twelve forts built around Liège, Belgium, in the late 19th century. The overall Fortified Position of Liège was a constituent part of the country's National Redoubt. Fort de Loncin was constructed between 1881 and 1884 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont. Contrasting with the French forts built in the same era by Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières, th...
Fort Eben Emael Inside ( part two of two )
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Fort Eben-Emael is a Belgian fortress located between Liège and Maastricht, on the Belgian-Dutch border, near the Albert Canal, outside the village of Ében-Émael. It was designed to defend Belgium from a German attack across the narrow belt of Dutch territory in the region. Constructed in 1931-1935, it was reputed to be impregnable and at the time, the largest in the world. The fort was neutral...
Fort Eben Emael Outside ( part one of two )
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Fort Eben-Emael is a Belgian fortress located between Liège and Maastricht, on the Belgian-Dutch border, near the Albert Canal, outside the village of Ében-Émael. It was designed to defend Belgium from a German attack across the narrow belt of Dutch territory in the region. Constructed in 1931-1935, it was reputed to be impregnable and at the time, the largest in the world. The fort was neutral...
an unusual pillbox on the east coast movie
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an unusual pillbox on the east coast movie
Warden point battery Isle of Sheppey UK
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Warden point battery Isle of Sheppey UK
Centre Bastion Martello Battery Sheerness Isle of Sheppey movie
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Centre Bastion Martello Battery Sheerness Isle of Sheppey movie
Mine control tower Burnham on Crouch movie
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Mine control tower Burnham on Crouch movie
Coalhouse Battery inc Radar Tower movie
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Coalhouse Battery inc Radar Tower movie
MKB 4 201 Heerenduin Netherlands movie
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MKB 4 201 Heerenduin Netherlands movie
WN 92 walzorperspeere. ( Fortress) IJmuiden. Netherlands.
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WN 92 walzorperspeere. ( Fortress) IJmuiden. Netherlands.
Writing a novella that takes place at Fort de Loncin. Your video was very helpful and informative. Thanks so much!
@@JobberBud @JobberBud morning Bud. Im glad that the video was of some use to you. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
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4;20 "Whoever is cheeky must suffer. Now you must endure what you have brought upon yourself." Apparently comparing Churchill to a sassy child who will get his in the end.
Hi zomby woof. Thanks for correcting my google translate, and thanks for watching and commenting 😊
it was nice to meet you today billy!
Is this you Damian ?
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 no its me szymon ☺️
@@godszymek5531 ok. Thanks szymon. I was great meeting all three of you yesterday. I will put pictures of all of us on my facebook page later on. Ill will tag you in them 😁
Truly interesting, I love old forts and hope to visit Douaumont and Vaux some day.
Yes, they are full of history. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Anyplace with a giant map is worth visiting!
Hi Jeff. And that's one BIG map indeed 😁. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊
I never knew they had a concrete turret bunker. Very interesting.
I think that its one if a kind. Its interesting though. Thanks for watching and comnenting 😊
Nice, Overloon was a big battlefield indeed. Loved that Militaria market sir!
Hi Paul. Its an interesting event. Plenty of stuff to purchase, thats if you are interested in that type of memorabilia. You can get both Axis and Allied stuff
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Iam looking for a WW2 British cap badge (brass). Do they have it overthere?!
Hi paul. I have no idea. Sorry
Thanks Billy, I always wonder about these collectors - what on earth do you do with a nazi flag ???
Hi Fan. The only people that i know who collect memorabilia like that are usually re- enactors or lemmy ( motorhead) lol. Stuff like that doesn't interest me. I mainly collect reference books to get more info on sites that i visit. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Do you have "A bridge too far"?
@@paulwee1924dus hi paul. I have filmed on the ludendorf bridge but not put anything together yet. Im travelling in germany and then poland now. Ill sort that footage that i have when i get home in August 😊
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Being a Canadian soldier we liberated your country and don't mention Canada 😢
Im english 😁
does he sound dutch to you ?
@@fanroche8573 i wasnt sure who that statement was aimed at. My intro came from the overloon web page, and it didnt mention anything to do with the Canadians. Maybe he was directing it at the dutch himself. I wont know until he comments again 😊
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Hi that is fair but it seemed personal. Ultimately Canada would fall under the allies. There are too many nations for you to identify in a short piece - and I'm a very patriotic Scot :)
tnx for making this video!!! cool to see so much is still intact
There is a lot to see here. More than i actually filmed. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Windy out there on the bay. It was very interesting to see the scale of the construction. I never though to much about repairing or upgrading uboats before.
Yes, the pens are massive indeed, and worth a visit. If i could redo the filming now, then ive since got mics that would cut out the wind. 😁. Thanks for watching and commenting
Another great video billy, keep em coming, looking forward to ur new adventure
Thanks lee. Should have a few more coming out before i go back into europe in may. Then an whole new set of adventures awaits 😁
Keeping you and your son in prayers today. Cheers.
Thankyou. You are so kind ❤
Thanks Billy, My dad was on the atlantic crossings, remember finding a diary where he saw a pal get killed after they were hit by a u boat.
Hi Fan. That must have been heart rendering For your dad Mate. Longest running campaign throughout the war, and so many lives lost to keep us from starving😢
Interesting video that we are watching from the FdU West of Pignerolle (France) ;)
Glad that you liked it ..Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
By the way . I Have marked FdU West of Pignerolle for a visit, but not this year. I am going to explore Poland. That place looks very interesting indeed.
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Be welcome. "L'Association du Mémorial des bunkers de Pignerolle" will be pleased to do you a special tour.
@@johnonlinux2244 that would be fantastic 😊
Another great video, thanks!
Your welcome. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Great video
Hi Joa.thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching ! 😊
Hi Billy, just been going through some of your video, and all are excellent. Look forward to meeting up when I'm back in the UK. So sad to see your Lee and Dad being mentioned, i also miss them very much, as they were both part of my life. Come to see me in Singapore, as i live so close to many of the battle fields here, Dairy Farm is only a short walk, and was a major battle ground against the Japanese. Look up Bukit Timah, Dairy Farm, and you will see what i mean. See you in the summer.
Hi vaughan. We are both fans of war history and ive got quite a lot of this history on this channel. Im away from 22nd may until near the end of july. Hopefully your still in the UK when i get home. AND we are coming to your house in Bali when its finished, so hurry up 🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️
Wartet mal noch 3 Jahre, dann ist die Halle nicht mehr so hoch und die geschichte weck!
Ja, ich verstehe, was du meinst. Das Dach ist in einem schlechten Zustand. Vielen Dank fürs Zuschauen und Kommentieren!
Interesting video, thank you for sharing this. The 380 mm Reinmetal weapon you described sounds like what they mounted on the Sturmtiger. It was an infrantry support vehicle designed to level buildings.
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 I am awaiting the video on Reinmetal. They produced many cutting edge weapons.
@@joelex7966 Hi Joe. I accidently posted the reply to you before i finished it, so i will start again. I did a bit more research on Rheinmetall after i posted the video. One of the weapons that they did build was the MG42, but the company got bogged down by nazi bureaucracy. And it does appear that German workers appeared to be `kind` to the slave workers ( testimonies in the attached clip ) i should be going into Poland this year, and I'm sure that one area that I'm going to, is where they tested the Rheinbot missile. thsnks for watching and commenting 🙂 www.rheinmetall.com/en/company/history/125-years-rheinmetall/years-1936-1945
Great shots! lie of official history is obvious!
Thanks for watching and commenting 😊
Most informative. Thank you very much.
Morning Jamie. Thanks for your comment. I'm glad that you liked it. Billy 😊
very informative and enjoyable, thank you.
Hi TB . Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
love this
Thanks Fan. Glad that you liked it. And thanks for watching and commenting 😊
Hi Billy, I was wondering as I have your site in my favourites. So sorry to learn of your family losses. What a sad time for you all. Keep doing what you are doing with love from Glasgow x
Hi fan. Thankyou for your concern. I'm starting to put together my videos. This does help me alot. Thankyou so much for watching and commenting. Billy
Another interesting video!
Thanks henry. Ive other vids on here that you might like. Fort du loncin, latrimont and Ében-Émael. All different tales to tell. 😊
Would you consider upgrading to 4k? Many of these places are on the verge of falling down or declining, and your video may be some of the last of these places in demonstrable condition. A panasonic lumix can be had used quite affordably.
They are shot in 2.7k. Ive just upgraded my computer to i7 so that should handle the footage better. At present, the movies that im putting together will be 2.7k. Until i get into poland this year then ill try 4k. Ill probably need another HHD or get a SSD drive aswell to take the bigger files. In the mean time ill experiment with the 4k settings and do some experimental footage to render 😊
Interesting video! I've subscribed! I'd love to visit Fort De Fermont one day.
Hi Henry. Thanks for the sub. Yes Fermont is an interesting place indeed. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊
Great video billy
Thanks lee. 😁
Always glad to see you've posted a video, Billy.
Hi Paul. Thanks for your support. Got another one coming out very soon 😊
Nice video. Visited Eben-Emael and Sedan (F).
Hi Michel. Thanks very much. The place is interesting indeed. So much devastation and sadness 😔 Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Belgium has been a pon in a game of chess unfortunately. I live in the south of the Netherlands. 10 miles west and I am in Belgium, 3 Miles east and I am in Germany. History is a bit of a hobby and went through different eras. The era 1870-1914 and 1918-1939 I so far find most interesting. Though I do not mind visiting a castle 😃
@@michelvondenhoff9673 yes, its an hobby for me aswell. Belgium has been a walkover for the Germans in both world wars. Now that we are all friends then its much better. I love europe and especially ypres. Im hoping to travel into poland this year. 🙏 😊
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Ypres I have visited twice. The museum in the 90's I found better than current Flanders Fields. My recommendation is the Passchendaele museum in Zonnebeke. Poland has been ran over and in and out of existance as a country over time as well... People one on one regardless of nationality I think can talk and work things out. Governments...😉
@@michelvondenhoff9673 ypres is a special place for us Brits, especially at 8pm every night ❤️. Im off to poland to look at what the Germans left behind. There is loads of things to look at 😊
Great to see you're back! As always, great content! Btw: Funny moment at 11:14, when you opened that hatch, a voice with a very East Berlin accent (the guide?) says: "Warum is det hier? Damit Sie det nich aufmachen." Which means, "Why is that here? So that you don't open it." Pobably referencing the sign that says "Do not enter" 😂
Hi Mojambo. Yes, no one wanted to open that lid. Its lucky that i dont speak or understand east or west german otherwise i might not have opened it 😁. The guide did have a go at me earlier on, because i was lagging behind.🤣. Thanks for your comments and also watching 😊
thanks great stuff
Hi Colin . Many thanks, Billy 😊
Nice to see you bk billy, great knowledgeable video,
Cheers lee. 😁. Thanks for watching and commenting
I'm so very sorry for the loss of your family members Billy. I hope that your memories will guide you in your future endeavors making life much better. May your father and son rest in peace. Your videos are one of my favorite sites to visit and I look forward to seeing more of you.
Hi Paul. Thanks for those kind words. Im hoping that making the videos will help me cope with whats happened. Thankyou for watching and commenting.
Hi Billy, sorry to read of your loss of family members. It's always a shock whether it's expected or comes out of the blue. There's no words that will make it any easier to accept their passing but all we have is to think of all the good times shared with them. Another good video, have to say, I have never heard of these 'winkel towers' before . Richie
Hi Richie. Thankyou for those kind words. Its not easy carrying on with the videos but im finding that it helps me cope with bereavement, and i know my son and dad would want me to do that. Many thanks for your comments and watching the video 😊
All the best for christmas to you and the family and have a great New Year to all. Riche
Hi richie. And all the best to you and your family aswell. Billy 😊
My family bought direct from the War Ministry at the end of WW2 named Q tower on Felixstowe Suffolk. This tower is inusuall in that it was dug deep 6:19 into the cliff that run along the sea front so had a dry moat almost the height of the martello tower itself An Uncle dug out the thick walls by hand using hammer and chisel , a long job for sure
Wow. Fantastic mike. Do you still have it in your family ?
Hi mike that was me commenting from my other channel. Thanks for watching and commenting. And as i said, is it still in your family ?
Thank you
You're welcome . Thankyou for watching 😊
The good talke on you 👏👏👏
Thankyou 😊
Enjoyed this, thanks.
Your welcome 😊
Mzrci pour le repotage, les esclaves étaient en grande partie Polonaise et pour parachever le travail, les Allemands ont coulé le béton alors que ces pauvres gens étaient encore dessous la priorité était de couler le dessus puis monté par d'énormes verins sous les intenses bombardements alliés, j'ai visité les lieux ado, j'avoue que cela m'ai resté marqué...
Yes its an enormous building. This building along with la coupole and valentin bunker will. Always stay with me. Thankyou for watching and commenting 😊
I remember going to a big party in 1989 in that big bunker with the upstairs bit the dj was upstairs where it's painted 1989 on the wall for posterity
Morning fred. That's a fair slog to get there. If i remember those events, which where called 'raves' ?. No doubt fond memories for you 😊. Thanks for watching and commenting . 😊
You present this structure as a V2 launch building. This is the view of some but not all. You likely noticed that the inside was a small space compared to the building outside. The idea of erecting a V2 with odd floors in the way and no actual doors to cart them to the launch pads should have been obvious. In actual fact, we do known that there were facilities and evidence of the manufacture of liquid oxygen found when the Americans entered the area. But, we really don’t know what the Germans intended this massive structure to be. No paperwork has ever been publicly disclosed to show why, even under heavy bombing and mobile rocket launchers the accepted norm, the Germans continued to work on the structure almost to the day it was captured. If it wasn’t a V2 launch site…… what was it, really? Visit Lost Battlefields with Tino Struckmann to see his tour of this facility and witness his reaction to it. Best wishes
All of the documentaries/books including the owner base this as a V2 rocket launching site. I've watched Tino`s videos on other places and he can be very good. He says that he is an historian and I'm just an enthusiast. I have no access to any archives which I'm assuming Tino does. Any info that I have is from books or documentaries that I've watched or read. The place is fascinating though. And I suppose until anyone come up with any concrete evidence then this place will be seen as a possible V2 site. If you haven't visited the site yourself then i suggest that you go, and then make your own conclusions. Cheers 🙂
Thank you !
Good morning. You're welcome!. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
You dont know what youre saying , they never build or launch anything from that place , till today nobody can say for sure what they intend to do there
Correct, they never launched anything from there because it was bombed before it was finished. And where in the film did i say that anything was launched from there ? And it was intended for V2 launches. Have you actually been there yourself ???
Thanks for this, although Dan Snow is not jumping all over the screen😆, this is the best film of this amazing building there is. 👏🏻
Lol. Hi Ian. Dan said that i could do this on my own 🤣. Thanks for watching and commenting 😁
Really dont like grafitti at all - can make a desolate place even worser
Graffitti can be very disrespectful, and i put it down to people who dont know the history ( or dont care ) of the place that they are visiting. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂