Opening a bunker for the first time in 73 years
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- In this video we are showing you how we opened a ww2 german regelbau 621 bunker in august 2018.
We will open another bunker soon!
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Hi guys I know where the Germans banker is here in Kenya. And I believe that they have left a lot of items behind including stoves and padlocks. The front door has a big padlock. Can you guys come over her and help me out ?
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I just realized, there is the very real possibility you could find a bunker full of p.o.w. bodies.
why was the bunker filled with water though
@@emmaotte7882 over the years the water seeps in through the dirt and cracks in the concrete.
My brothers and i found a intact bunker much larger, hiking in the forest and cliffs near Irrel, Germany along the former WW1 Siegfried Line...we were in our teens, around 1966. We found many incredible artifacts of the wars. If only id have realized the magnitude of what we found that day. Its entrance was tiny, but opened up into a labyrith of rooms in very untidy condition. Paper, books, furniture everywhere.
2:39 that coke is in really good condition
It's all sugar it never goes bad!
@@covecove5978 Don't forget the phosphoric acid....
Well done. Putting the condition of this in perspective, it was not so long ago that WWII occurred. And nearly all who lived through and survived are departed now.
unique fixer upper. looks solid enough to probably to be used again for a quiet retreat . a little paint here, a little paint there , couple throw rugs and a fridge full of beer and a large t.v. a man cave is reborn.
Yeah, and Its possible here i Denmark. Nearly all bunkers are private property. They dont really add any value to a property either.
So if you’re buying a small House on the West coast of Denmark and it says on paper you’ve Got a lot of square feet. You should probably check the garden!
Your "man cave" is in the middle of nowhere! 😂
@@tronixfix ...LoL...And that's a bad thing?...All man caves must have an adjacent she-shed!!! ;0)
I can see why some people want to document and map out old WW2 bunkers and then bury them again.
WW2 was a terrible war. It is one thing for an American like me to think a WW2 bunker should be used in the present.
But in Europe the soil around the bunkers hosted brutal battles in the past. Lives were lost. People were injured.
I can see why some people want to cover those painful reminders of the past up.
sorry, I , normal don't respond to these, however, yes, it was a bad time but we MUST never forget the past and live with it. these places can be used for good things. you have no idea , neither do I, if anyone was killed there. so, why not use the , places that were for fear and killing for good things. let it rot and just forget??? then, let the pyramids go away. peace be with you and god.
That’s very eerie. I love the history behind it. Thank you for sharing. Please, keep digging.
Incredible video and equally incredible work. Makes you wonder how much is still underground throughout Europe.
A lot of bunkers from both wars were buried over as they were too expensive to demolish.
Gerald Adams when i went to germany for work, it is not uncommon for them to clear the block to remove old bombs and other things when doing any kind of excavating, for buildings, roads, etc.
ABSOLUTELY HEAPS. I've seen video of stuff in the polish forests with a wooden roof that was big enough to stack a few 747s in.
Gerald Adams or any where for that matter.
Gerald Adamsbyyï
An incredible find and piece of history. Thank you for sharing your experience with others around the world.
Part of germans luftwaffel back then. Pilots bunker. Lot of fence around the landingzone. Bomb by American back 1944. Say its easy find parts from plans on old landing zone.
Was clearly de-militarized and secured before being buried : explains why not a single artifact was found.
Seth uhmm. You don’t think the locals took everything of value when the war ended?
All bunkers was clean before shotdown of Esbjerg kommune. Thy dont want use to propaganda for the germans.
@@Me-yh4uc I live in Ftance and we visited 120+ bunkers North/NW of the country : we only found ONE un-touched bunker : was around Lorient : authorities decided to block the entrance and let it "as it was" because it had been seriously damaged by allies in late 44 when they besieged the U-boats base at keroman.
We managed to access it, using metal detectors inside to spot any booby-traps.
We found ammo (7.92 mostly + some 9mm), we also found 4 helmets, French 40's money and one nade.
Documents also, but too damaged to read.
Best thing was an insigna on a door, with a German eagle+ Swastika bearing the Todt organisation markings.
@@seth1987 thats badass man!!
@@Me-yh4uc Might have happened too, that is correct : my grandfather's father did it at ww1's near end : he took an officer's pistol + ammo/2 clips and the very small"suitcase"(original one"in which the gun was carried. Semi-auto pistol, i love it !
Outside of Augsburg, Germany there is an old airbase that is now a US Army base. I don't remember the exact name anymore, we just called it Field Station Augsburg. I was stationed there in the 1980s. It was said that it is the base Rudolph Hess took off from when he flew to England. When I was there, the old German buildings were still standing and I explored them extensively. There was a bowling alley, barracks, motor pool, jail, offices, etc but what really got my attention was the kitchen. Under the kitchen was a large cellar and in that cellar was a rather large dumbwaiter with armored steel doors. I never found where the dumbwaiter went up to the kitchen because it didn't. It went down! The doors had been welded shut but I could shine a light through the crack and see that it went down. As far as my light went I could not see any bottom or water. Rumor had it that there was a large underground hanger and storage complex under the base and that the US Army sealed it up because they were afraid it was booby trapped. The year I left in 1983 they bulldozed the entire facility but whatever is down there is still there. There may be other entrances, I don't know. I would have loved to see what was down there.
Awesome, many thanks for sharing this.
Really enjoyable video, very interesting liked and subbed :). I wish you'd shown more of the 'mortar bunker' as I couldn't see any place or opening to fire the very high trajectory angles that mortars use.
Yeah , Well the hole for the mortar had been shut off by a concrete slab.
I had No idea id make a video on that bunker at the time, so i didnt get Good photos or video sadly.
But thanks a lot!
THANK YOU for doing what you do!
Absolutely paramount in preserving the history of WWII.
TY for taking the time to excavate & preserve this historic area so future generations can experience it .
Awesome video!!
Must be so exciting to open a bunker after so many years... you never know what you're gonna find inside!
A lot of hard work and patience.. but really special to be the first person to enter the bunker since WWII... that's priceless!
Really interesting to see, keep it up!
Gr Nick
Thanks Nick.
A new bunker opening is coming in march, and that one is twice as big. And also with more camera action!
Regards WW2RevivalDenmark team
I'm glad there was people willing to find this location and work to dig it out, so we can see what it looks like inside before it is lost forever. Keep up the good work guys! 😁👍
It’s like digging into hell and finding Nazis.
Thank you so much, everyone, for your hard work in opening this little piece of history. I hope you left a little Easter egg for whomever opens it up in the next 100 years. Thanks for the video. History from the ground up is the best kind.
Really great that you are mapping and documenting this history. So much has been lost, and so much more is being destroyed.
That is awesome to uncover history!
Amazing! Thanks for the video!
Thank you to all involved
It's a wonderful thing y'all are doing ❤️
Fascinating. As an American who grew up overseas the importance of ww2 wasn't lost on me. I remember those tank stoppers in Poland in 1998. All rusted up, dozens of them lined up in fields...
Thanks for the look into the past!
I thought your drone photography was especially nice.
What a fantastic find lost for 73 years hope it is easy to open the next time
was anybody else expecting mirelurks...? Or is than just me?
Great video and documentary. Yes, it's a once in a life time experience for you guys, enjoyed your experience through this documentary. Thanks.
Very sensitive and respectful Danish style. Thank you for your important work, I remember these bunkers from when I spent holidays there over 30 years ago - caught my first sepsis while exploring 🤪
Thank you for opening up this bunker - the living conditions must have been hell. great video and use of the drone :)
Thanks for all of the positive feedback. More videos have since come out, go watch them if you find WW2 an interesting subject.
Cheers, WW2RevivalDenmark team.
Thanks for the video, you along with WW2historyhunter have great content, I hope you get to do a collab video together at some stage :)
Thank you. Question. Why are most of these historical places covered by 1to3 meters of soil?
@@ronphillips6336 Good question!
@@nzoomed Is there an answer to my question? They are some on the surface, however many have been covered.
@@x-force6010 Look in the decription
History is very important, thank you for making this video for all of us to see. Good work and may you and your team have all the success you could hope for. Thank you.
Agreed Amen - we must never forget
Thanks for sharing this footage. Very interesting.
Excellent video thank you for sharing this.
My dad was stationed there in the 1940s. I remember him telling me about the barracks he lived in & how cold it was.
I was an exchange student to Denmark in 1984. I lived near Egtved for the entire year. I went on holliday with my family to Skagen, we toured some of the coastal batteries. I also went to Fredrikhavn and saw one there. I thought it was pretty cool that we could do that.
Truly fascinating! Many thanks, I look forward to other bunker openings......GODSPEED!
I truly enjoyed this video, so interesting and amazing.
Awesome,just awesome video!!!THANX!!!
First all for never being mapped you guys did an absolutely awesome job finding it and getting to the entrance. Let's hope that seeing a bunker or bunkers will be for history sake and not any more wars. I think we have had enough wars to last a lifetime. Happy hunting and keep up the great work.
Everything is mapped in Denmark, if you build a house they'll control the execution is exactly as the drawing you submitted. The civil defence force has mapped all shelters in the land , even a concrete basement in a school or apartment building is registered with a level according to thickness of concrete and which steel structures is implemented.
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing this with us
Very cool. I imagine there’s a lot more bunkers and military installations like this just waiting to be discovered. Thanks for sharing.👍
We have some very cool bunkers still to open!
From 75 to 78 near Bad kissingen Germany, when we were on F.T.Xs and weekly 72 hrs deployment our move out platoon many of times came Upon bunkers that were emplaced inside of hills, or entrenched, near Farmers lands. Rumor was at Daley barracks, there was a huge parking storage under ground, the post Engineers had to replace a major water line while walking of chow Hall, you could look down where the pipe was being replace, there was a huge Cavern right under the parade field. I seen a vehicle that was parked there, had to been 20 feet down, at least 8 feet of solid concrete, for the ceiling.
Sounds pretty damn interesting!
WW2RevivalDenmark in 1975 I was 19 years old private, in US Army, stationed in West Germany on the Czechoslovakian border. Cold war was in full effect, the DMZ in Korea was red hot, your life expectancy on either border was 6 sec, many soldiers would not take 30 day leave because they would never come back! From Moment One to the very last day, you heard the word reverberate from Tac site to the Rear, short, !short !short.! Somebody would call back How short are you ? Return reply would be, "I'm a two-digit midget, I'm so short I could do a double Gander off the side of a dime,"" I'm so short I could crawl under a snake and never touch his belly" ect ect all day long, and if you look at them, they would yell out PRIVATE!!! how many days you got? you would reply 1090 days and counting, and they would be busting up laughing, End of month pay days, paid in the field, when we were in a hot status State 5 or 3 Gi,s would bring out the Monopoly board, each and every one of us who bought into the game was $50 a person that went into the center of the board, normally you could get 3-4 guys to put in fifty bucks a piece, back your game piece on the Monopoly board such as the shoe the dog the iron, horse. I have seen eight guys, put up $400 total and sometimes even more! To see if you could win the game every luxury tax 10% of $75 goes in the middle of the board, if you pull the orange or yellow card from chance or community you had to pay 10% if you had to pay Hotel assessment it was 10% whatever play money mounted up to, if you landed on somebody's house or their Motel 10% in the kitty, I forget how many game pieces there were, but I seen $3,000.00 in the middle of the board before the dice was ever rolled one time. Especially when you only made $310 a month, that was some Bookoo money, 4 hours later there might be $7,000.00 to$ 8000.00 stacked and rubber bands in the middle of that board, tension was so thick you could have cut it with a knife, you got to remember that this is 1975 these are all Vietnam veterans, crazier than a Cage rats, we had this first lieutenant he was a West Point graduate, went in the TOC office, came back with a 45 slammed the clip,in too the well, pulled back the slide locked and loaded one round and pointed at us 30 guys at the Monopoly board he said" I'll kill every damn one of you, if there's $1 missing, I've got to run out to the BCC, confirm integration with Battion, take a break and place I'll be gone 10 minutes." You could see a pin levitating in the air,🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Dale Slover do you think you would be able to find it again? Do you have coordinates or anything like that? I will be in Germany and Europe very soon and I may try my luck!
Yeah, right. Sounds like a tall story from ARRSE:-)
Tigertank 519 Absolutely I spent 36 months at that post -18 months in the field, the beautiful town of Bad kissingen Germany, world renowned for its water curable properties. But I was talking to a individual in the Oregon National Guard who is there years after I was, ,stated they tore down the old military installation which broke my heart,,, but if you can find Bad kissingen Germany, ask anybody who's 60 years or older they'll tell you exactly where it's at. Going through the front gate, 1600 feet 500 M it'll be 11:30 position parade field It was only by chance that the I seen this Cavern at the right time at the right place going up to eat some nasty ass Chow. Really it wasn't that bad,it kept me live. You got to love the Army.
thank you, everyone, for sharing and for your hard work
Wonderful video. Beautiful and fitting music, thank you.
Thank you for all your hard work!!!!! Bring us the history of the past.
When we left Zweibrucken to return to the U.S. back in 1973 there was a new bank being built on the Air Force Base. When digging to lay the foundation they found a previously unknown bunker. It was like a time capsule, weapons and uniforms were discovered. Even a German helmet with blood stains in the temple area were found.
Great video! Wow! what a Awesome find! Thank You for posting this video.
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing! Thanks for all your hard work!
that is a beautifully made structure. it would be good if you could superimpose the airfield to show exactly where on the site this structure stood in the grand scheme of things. big thumbs up from me.
Thanks for the feedback!
Regards - WW2RevivalDenmark team
Thank you for your reverence, as a soldier, I appreciate it
Thomas Cole are you a Soldier
R.I.P xxxtentacion yes, 82nd Airborne, 7th SFG, Order of the Purple Heart, multiple enemy engagements
Thomas Cole ok cool
That seepage water is crystal clear! I don’t know why this surprised me, but it did ... I mean, it’s basically a shallow well after all ... but still .... very cool discovery; thanks for posting, and good hunting!
A stark reminder of the lives of people who have lived and may have died in a small corner of a continent. The human in a time of war where being human regardless of which side they were on was a deadly experience.
Very nice work, this 621 has beautiful camouflage on the outside. Good thing he was found again.
Awesome video!! Thanks for sharing it for all of us to see.
Your choice of music is hauntingly appropriate. Well done! 👍🏻
Strange how we try to put the war behind us, yet we dig up its remnants in order to find out more
It would be strange if we were not interested
Nice one. I kind of feel sad for the bunker. A glimpse of sun and back to sleep in mud and total darkness. Good night bunker
Bunkers are people too ya know...🥴
Bunker lives matter!
Well it IS a bunker, and they're usually below ground, so...
Excellent, well done!! I look forward to the next video
Outstanding guys and thanks for sharing.
Hats off to the carpenters that built all the forms!
I would love to do something like that
Lots of work to show this piece of history otherwise lost. Thank you. I have a mickymouse emblem that was used on a JG26 Luftwaffe pilots cap that was found in a bunker in Latvia. This video gives me an idea of how it was found.
Amazing to think of how many years and generations this thing has just laid untouched for , buried for all that time and forgotten about.
Amazing how well it was made considering it was just meant to be a temporary structure. Most buildings today have inferior workmanship.
These are still going to be here in a 1000 years most likely.
Roger Rarebit - Yeah, if the worst that ever happens to a bunker is a tractor plowing that field it’ll be invincible.
Vancouverman because it’s a military grade bunker? Most buildings today happen to be houses made out of affordable material that can’t withstand explosives and bullets
@Reformed Anti-semite Nope the concrete from ancient rome lasted so long because they did not add steel.
@@user-ol3wk2ds9m Is that so? Gee whiz ya learn sumthin new every day!
For clarity, I hope someday they take one of these small bunkers and completely excavate it, down to floor level - then you could get a true picture of inside and outside of it. It would certainly take some digging.
An excellent documentation about an exhumation of a german bunker in Denmark - my compliments & thank You!
Tks for taking time and gathering resources to share this with us. Would be awsome to find out who was assigned to this bunker and share their story / pictures. Thanks again. The music was awsome.
Regards
So, I didn't "go wrong" when I subscribed to your channel ! ;-)
...It looks very interesting and exciting !
I love to explore and find WW2 relics (Eastern Front...in my case ...;-/) !
There are many stories behind ALL those relics to be told ...
I didn't see until now a (WW2) 'mortar bunker' ! Interesting !
I wonder...HOW that bunker was "lost in time" for so many decades...in the middle of that field... so much soil 'was deposited' above it...!
The agriculture works...will not 'affect' the bunker...? Will you mark it to be 'avoided' by the workers...?
Hard work but...amazing result(s)...nice teamwork ! ;-)
I'm waiting for the next part/episode...!!
HISTORY GUARD The bunker was quickly stripped for all metal and then they just pushed dirt over it and left.
And nope the farmer does not hit the bunker, although the leftover concrete is destroying hos plow.
Thanks for watching!
Surely there would be more things in the near area to also discover.
Incredible! I could not imagine the feeling of going back in time. I lived in Florennes; Belgium in the 80's as well outside of Athens, Greece. I loved visiting old century sites that you can not experience in the United states. Thank you for posting the video
Have to agree, America has history but NOTHING like Europe... they are totally different feelings too.
@@JosePerez-bi4ge The current occupants of North America haven't been there very long and have seen to it that there is little trace of the history that preceeded.
Thank you for sharing the experience.
Very nice video
Farmer should fix it up and use for storage. Its classic fixer upper.
Hello from Tennessee, this is an awesome video, thanks for sharing it!
Thanks for sharing this event!
Great film well done good luck in future digs
I went with my dad who was a WW2 vet to France. I cannot believe how much cement that Hitler poured !
ConCRETE and The Conquered! but Alas! "Once This Bunker Was Brought Back Up To Speed/Fully Operational..Our First Target We Selected! KLM flight 4805?"
Amazing find so much history still out there to be discovered. Well done keep up the outstanding work.
Well done. Love the drone views. Thank you.
It sometimes angers me that the German Government has tried to erase any trace of WWII , you can’t change history just by blowing up or covering up everything built in that time period. I think all these magnificent structures should have been preserved as a reminder and if nothing else, and a testament to German ingenuity.
The germans didnt feel like just giving over their equipment When they left i 1945.
A lot of items were dug down and thrown into lakes.
WW2RevivalDenmark Yes I’m aware of the scorch earth policy Hitler ordered in the last days of the war a lot of which Albert Speer Hitlers Architect munitions minister refused to carry out but years after hitlers death the German government was blowing up the great stadium at Nuremberg blowing up the Nazi headquarters in Berlin finishing off the bergoff in olbersaulsburg and so on and so on. It’s a shame to see all that beautiful German history go up in smoke for what reason I don’t know
The Japanese are taught little of the war.
Siegfried S Yes Siegfried I’m afraid you are correct my friend on all counts and you know what they say ( those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it).
Yup, the Great United States of Israel.
Nice Video 😉
Anyone know the Story of the "Jonastal" Bunker system?
VERY good find. A glimpse into the minds passed
Fascinating, and great aerial shots! Many thanks!
Thanks a lot 👍🏻
I like that small excavator :D Good for gardening :D
I find it a bit sad that such historically important items are buried and forgotten.
When I was a kid there was a pill-box near a local river.
At some point it got removed.
Now, no one will know that years ago soldiers used to stand guard there, prepared to defend us.
In Denmark, sadly WW2 is not really seen as historically valuable. They destroy and remove bunkers, and build right on top of old positions.
Fantastic work! I have a house in Birmingham, and when I bought it I was aware that there would have been an Andersen in the back garden, but had no idea if it was still there. After a lot of digging and scraping around I found it. Not in the best shape but still recognizable and fascinating. I checked in at the library to find diaries of the bombings, and from that could pinpoint the dates that the family living there at the time would have spent in the shelter.
@DanielJ Yes, its in poor shape and flooded to almost a foot deep, but still useable to grow mushrooms in!
Fascinating to watch love watching these videos
Absolutely amazing! It would have been a fun project to share with your friends.
We had a blast excavating this bunker
that was a hallowed ground - regardless of politics - of men doing their duty.
Awesome job guys!👍👍
very well done video, thanks for sharing !
Awesome! This is my favorite part about living in Germany
Spooky.
Perfect music.
It held up very nice if this was on my land I would have to find a use for it .thank you for the video very well done
Amazing work guys!
I envy you guys, and I will be anticipating the next one with baited breath.
Richard E. Miranda Jr. YOU DONT ENJOY HISTORY?
I know that crazy feeling of flying a drone. 80% drone filmed.
Nice job guys!! Job well done!
This was nothing less than unbelievable I got goosebumps just watching I can't imagine how you were feeling at that moment of being there !!!! 🤗
Those few seconds are worth so much!
The fort Ive always wanted. Dry it out real good,new ventilation, new cement. Man cave
Please talk insead of subtitles. Also less slideshows more video please. Very cool video! Hope to see more
Please just make your own videos if you don't like the way he does them.
@@foreignfoamer3592 i do
@Derek Charette more than 80% likes in the video. Idk what you talking about.
Great video, very interesting discovery, would love to have been there!
Only just found your channel and this was the first video I watched. Such an absolutely beautiful thing to see a bunker opened for the first time in such a long time! The stories these buildings would tell if they could... ❤
If you like this you should check out ww2historyhunter. His stuff is awesome and he takes his son and daughter on their 'small adventures also.
We appreciate it.
Cheers WW2RD team