I speak French, am a US lawyer and medical researcher so I help with FOI requests. But, the chance to help you explore these sites ( diving the basement especially) would be so awesome. I'm drone pilot as well.
The germans were wild, ww2 construction reminds me of ancient megalithic structures like the pyramids. Huge, Cold, Intimidating, Technological, Industrial Feel, and confusing enough to leave people guessing what they were built for. Great vid
its becoz Hitler and national socialist germany were in connection with the same entities the pharaohs tried to be in connection with :) *the demons of the 3rd eye DMT LSD world* !
RAF Captain Eric "Winkel" Brown single-handedly flew nearly all the German Luftwaffe materiel said, "they were ahead of us at least by a decade", one of the very few pilots to fly the Me163 which he considered very favourably, the Me262 (gave good review). No where else were there supersonic test tunnels, no other nation had Conrad Zuse' digital computer, no other nation so quickly after the war harnessed nuclear power (read how rapidly France-Germany built highly sophisticated reactors of designs well ahead of UK USA)- Sellafield infamously irradiating everything around it from day 1. Cruise missiles, loitering munitions, rocket-assisted bombs, rocket assisted artillery, TV-guided TOW, jet turbine, ballistic Missiles, first flying wings (first flight of Northrop which technically is not a Nurflugel (all wing)- it has vertical stabilizers) Northrop N9 flew July 1942, Horten HVa 1936, HVb Cologne-Ostheim in Autumn 1937 inspired by Lippisch Stork and Delta wings, Lippisch building on Fauvel's 1920's work. First stealth cladding for submarine, first true air independent propulsion submarine,
Incredible, mysterious Tino, I’m looking forward to part 2 now. As Capt. Eric Brown said, he was responsible for testing, evaluating all advanced German types at RAE, Farnborough: ‘…we were fighting a very advanced enemy, more advanced than we were…’
According to published records the Grand Slam was only dropped on this site to gauge its effect against concrete, as it was not what it was designed for. It's intended use was to be dropped into soft ground and destroy structures by the "earthquake effect" (UK - Operation 'Front Line; US - 'Project Ruby')
Neither the 10-ton Grand Slam nor the earlier 6-ton Tallboy were ever intended to "penetrate" concrete. They were meant to be dropped NEXT TO a target and destroy it with 'shock waves' passing through the ground.
I recently discovered your channel, and as an avid student of history, I must say that after binge-watching much of your WWII content, my mind is blown! I cannot begin thank you enough for documenting these sites with modern-day tech for posterity. You are a treasure.
@@BolleZijde I have, but you wouldn't know that because you'd rather make assumptions. They're still fun to watch--to see all of the fascinating places that I will never be able to explore in my lifetime. Note: Opinions are like assholes--everybody has one. Yours means nothing to me.
Your mind is blown because you fell for his con. If a story sounds unbelievable then it probably is. The surveillance photos of after it was captured are the same photos, zommed in of "after it was bombed the first time" how can the allies have closer photos after bombing it while in enemy hands than after they have captured it? This guy isn't an academic historian. He's a guy with an interest in history. He talks a great game like any con artist. One video he intimidated that he could meke a ground penetrating radar scan possible for a location. There is a reason that main stream historians haven't uncovered what he has, PROOF, legitimate historians need irrefutable proof, irrefutable proof is not what tino struckmann delivers. But you do you....
I`m glad you have been given permission to drain the lower levels of this place as I am dying to see what`s down there too! Full of mystery this one but a great watch all the same.
Tino.....Just started watching this video....all these mysteries surrounding this, and other sites you have shared with us, boggles the mind and fuels the imagination with contemplation!!!! 🚀🚀🚀
A. Speer knew much much more than he stated at any time. Within his 20 years in Spandau, Speer thought out the political correct answers to the questions that he knew he was going to be asked. The guy was the ARMAMENTS MINISTER for the 1000 year 3rd Reich. He knew what EVERY room in that V2 facility was intended and used for. How could Speer NOT know all the details. The SS General that was to Replace Speer knew what was going on also. It is my opinion that this entire Idea started out as a testing and then eventually a launching site for the V2 project. Obviously manufacturing a large number of parts and operating systems IN THE INITIAL CONSTRUCTION. When it was decimated, I honestly think that Speer took the initiation to just make this into a 2 tier project, 1) to make it a bombing magnet ( @ 40% draw on allies bombing effort to distract from other more advanced testing sites etc. 2) Speer knew it was over for the 3rd Reich and Speer ( as part of a much larger plan to save Germany ) actually drew resources from the war effort to END the war a quickly as possible. After my own extensive study of A Speer, his power and decisions were much more respected and carried out than anyone in the Reich. Speer was loyal and dedicated to his own thoughts and actions to advance his own career, and would do anything to achieve his own goals. Which he did at Nuremberg. In all reality, nothing to see in this huge project and facility other than smoke and mirrors, mysteries created to confuse and gain for personal gain and goals. Nothing makes sense, because it was designed that way.
@@scottiebones If it really drew 40% of allied bombings onto it, would worth every piece of steel and concrete wasted for it. Producing V2s wasn't something hard, such a massive facility was never needed, fueling and launching V2s were hard. But building a facility which would be constantly under surveillance and bombed wouldn't help with that at all. Perhaps hitler really thought it could be useful but im sure everybody else knew it was impossible after first bombing so they really used the site as a decoy for both fooling hitler and allies. Atomic research theory again doesn't make sense, any kind of mines could be used for both atomic research and V2 production, no need to build a massive structure which could be seen from space. Allies realized it was a decoy after capturing it but instead of admitting they wasted so much effort to destroy it they came up with ''V2 bunker'' nonsense..
@@scottiebonesit would not be a waste if its ultimate purpose was to mitigate destructive bombing on other important facilities, perhaps ball bearing plants, tank plants, aircraft facilities etcetera.
Tino, often reinforced concrete has mis matched form work. Just because the pattern on the outside of the concrete varies may be because of a construction joint in the timber planks used to create the form work mould. The only way to tell is to scan the reinforcement with something like a Hilti Ferroscan. This will provide an x-ray like image of the reinforcement steel. The image will confirm the stages of construction and confirm the age of what may be an infill of the door opening.
Did you see how much steel was wrapped in those walls? Lol. Do you think you would actually be able to read the ferroscans? Even with multiple angles? It wouldn't be like scanning walls today or from the last 40yrs where engineers have went skimp on reinforcements.
Absolutely fascinating Tino. I recall seeing this structure in the 70's and others. Later in the 80's I saw a number in the east as a visiting seafarer. I also had the opportunity as a Seafarer to visit many closed areas in the east such as Arkhangelsk in the 80's. There are a lot of secrets out their and I for one remain convinced from my own experiences that much was covered up at the end of the war. the reasoning is clear as you state in a country at total war why waste resources.
I went there in the mid 80's, and we where told that there are 3 more stories underground, but they couldn't clear them because they are full of radioactive water. Although they also told us 1of the rooms underwater was aparantly filled with a toxic gas.
I am not sure what the downward pitch of the terrain is there, but you will need to have the discharge of the pumps to be below the estimated grade of the bottom floor. Hopefully there is three phase power available on site to run the pumps. Pumps running on fuel won't be affordable. Perhaps WWII History Hunter could help with his underwater drone to establish a depth.
Sat here after having had my Sunday roast dinner, with some wine, smoking a very nice cigar and drinking last of the bottle before I start on the Conyac ... and Yes Tino, I am with you now it your way of thinking. Having caught last part on it's debut, I was watcjing it for two minutes, and the bell rang to notify me it was on... 2 hours aftre it had finished.... typical youtube these days. I as I say often, you just can't get the staff these days!
Seems like they started building something strategic, but after the first major bombardment, realized it was a better decoy for allied bombing than anything else…
Part of the reason they didn't have the blast doors in place, comes from when this was constructed. The bunker was constructed between 1943, and 1944. At that time, Germany was severely strapped for resources, in particular steel. The steel needed to make these blast doors would easily be enough to make several tanks, tens of thousands of small arms, ship parts, or all manner of other things Germany needed more. Matters are made worse when you consider it was never actually finished. It was far from operational by the time the Germans abandoned it and it was captured. The repeated bombing had played havoc on the construction. While the bunker itself could easily shrug off the damage, the same can't be said for the supply trains, trucks, and worker compounds surrounding it. Unfortunately, you're falling into a kind of rabbit hole that happens from time to time with abandoned war time structures. You're assuming that the structure was complete and fully functional, without looking to the context of the time. Had this been completed, then yes, many of the concerns you voice would make sense, but as it was never finished and construction was abandoned, your arguments about blast doors, fume exhausters, and such, fall very short. Historians figure, based on how far into the work the Germans had gotten, that the bunker would have taken another full year (well into 1945) to be completed, as it lacks most all of the needed fixtures and components for the fueling and launching of the rockets.
Sound analysis (unlike this video!) - however the Germans actually stripped it of equipment before abandoning it, so it might well have been making LOX for some period.
@@MarkTillotson Every historical report on this particular bunker notes that it was abandoned before construction could be completed. There were others in the system (similar bunkers) which were used for making LOX.
good analysis. also, i think the video falls into giving too much weight to intelligence assessments presumably being completely correct -- while noting that there were varying opinions at the time -- so for example maybe huge doors were not to be the way to get rockets out to fire, at least by the time it was actually built. plus, it seems to me there is a big leap of assumption early on, that it wouldn't make sense to move rockets out upright -- at least maybe in some early plan. i'm no rocket scientist, but it immediately comes to mind that liquid fuel rockets might need to be kept upright if filled before moving them out into the open to fire.
I visited this site over twenty years ago and didn’t get anywhere Near the access you did. I have always wondered why you couldn’t see the two V2 exit doors shown on the explanation panels and drawings of the building and your ideas of change of use help that theory. If I may make one suggestion, if you ever do a re edit can you add location drawings to show where you are on the site? I was lost in some parts other than that I loved this video very well done and maybe a small underwater camera may be more suitable and safer than you diving in there! Good luck
Agreed on the camera before doing any diving. Supposed to be multiple levels, unknown depth. Who the hell knows what kinda junk is down there to get snagged on. Permanantly.
One of the many reasons Stalin, but especially Beria, were so keen to reach Berlin before the Anglo Americans. Both were aware of the level of the ongoing research carried out at the Kaiser Wilhelm institute in Berlin. A few of the documents captured there by the NKVD, SMERSH or supplied to them from former staff that have surfaced since the war, provide a fascinating insight into the number and capabilities of "wonder weapons" that thankfully could not be produced in time. Beria hoped they may counter the Atom bomb...
Tino, I was at the site in 95, like you I came away with more questions than answers. I heard a story that the resistance reported a large construction with power lines to or from, unable to get close, they assumed it was a reinforced power station. that piqued interest in London. After the visit I assumed the tall galleries were indeed for missiles. But the facility was in the process of re purpose. After all the Coupole at nearby Wizernes was to be more advanced. I expect you will show that too soon.
Looking at the building it appears to have a lack of symmetry, perhaps the gallery that runs to the rear of the bunker and ends abruptly on the right side was originally intended to pass through the right side wall and that side was never fully completed. The right external was was perhaps intended to be an internal wall with a second wall and rocket launch gallery contained there. I know the roof was not wide enough to accommodate this, but it would make sense if perhaps pretty early on in construction the Germans scrapped the whole idea of a launch site and having already completed the left side? What do you think?
WOW !!--THAT IS INCREDIBLE !!---THAT WILL BE LIKE "THE TIME MACHINE"--IN 50,000 YEARS PEOPLE WILL BE SAYING 'IT WAS BUILT TO FIGURE OUT THE SEASONS"--THERE IS ENOUGH CONCRETE,-TO BUILD A CITY !!--JUST UNBELIEVABLE !!
@@DonAltopio I mean, designing a system that important that couldn't be operated without electricity would be *really* stupid, so no, not brilliant, just not stupid.
Even though you showed some assembly footage, it never occurred to you they transported V2’s horizontally and erected them before launch. I’ve seen more launch sites and footage, they would never be transported vertically. They would train them in, erect them, pump them full of LOX and then launch. This was probably a peroxide/LOX plant.
My dad was one of two people that confirmed where the v-2 was launched the other was the man that was in the nose of his p38k better none as droop snoot p38. The two where on a top secret mission when he was a Recon pilot in WW-2. I now have pictures of a site that was bombed. You can still see the face of the underground part of the and where the rail road tracks went inside. Other than the grounds around it and a pad in front of the bunker you could tell there wasn't much damage. The bunker he took pictures of on a mission didn't look like the one in the video because it was mostly under ground other than the face of the building where the rail road went inside and the area the odserved the lunches it may have been a test site. I just know that was where he witnessed the launch of the v-2. Him and the guy in the nose of the plain had another mission with radio jamming equipment.
The fact the US could not figure out its true purpose, or maybe they did. Shows why they needed their technology to further things at home. Also that "door" May have been used to move equipment inside at some point, then later sealed.
It's fascinating how much history has been lost in such a short period of time. We don't even know what that building is for, even though the truth most likely is withheld from us.
It's tempting to speculate that there was more to this than meets the eye, but I believe that the basic story is correct. It was started with the intention of creating a V2 launching site but allied air attacks rendered that plan obsolete when the surrounding supporting structures were substantially damaged. In order to work at its intended purpose, the whole complex had to remain undamaged. V2 testing at penemunde saw a great number of failures and explosions on attempted launch, but the operational launch sites were planned for use once the failures had been corrected. Had this site been completed, round the clock launches could have occurred with minimal risk of failure. With the destruction of significant support buildings and the move to mobile launch vehicles, it makes perfect sense to repurpose the, pretty impregnable, main structure to the production of LOX. The V2 mobile launchers had to operate in northern France so having LOX production available locally makes perfect sense. So, essentially, you have an intended launch bunker which was never actually completed to design and which was then cobbled into a LOX facility. One thing it definitely wasn't, at any time, was a nascent nuclear facility. Why? Because the German nuclear programme didn't need a massive, reinforced, facility, miles away from Germany and so conspicuous to the allies. The only realistic reason to try to build that facility there, was the range limitations of the V2. Great video tour of a very impressive and historical structure.
Tino: Another great building site with many questions. What I don't understand is WHY, 77 years after the war is over, are these sites being cemented closed, no one knows anything about it , no building blue prints are available, etc. There were drawings, there were pictures & there were many people who knew EXACTLY what these places & buildings were made for. Most of them are probably now dead, but what is the reason for this secrecy ? Bullshit like this incenses me. What is the big secret? If the Germans had nuclear facilities, why isn't it in the public domain ? I cannot imagine ANY reason why all of these sites don't have their entire operation available to anyone interested. Thanks for your really great videos.
The bunker at Watten was never used to launch V2’s, but was a liquid oxygen production facility. The V2’s were launched from La Coupole at Wizernes, which is now a visitor centre restored some years ago with EU funds. Read about this site and a mission to bomb it in February 1944 by 506 squadron of the 44th Bombardment Group, in the book ‘Ruth-Less and far from home’.
I would be VERY interested in seeing all the interior walls be X-rayed! I can only imagine all the things that where hidden and entooned during the war!.....
Those yellow carts I have seen before... They were the only thing left inside of the "yellow cake" factory when me and my friends somehow managed to let ourselves into back in 2010. We tried to go back in 2015 and the moment we crossed the barbed wire fence with the us federal property no trespassing signs there were soldiers in full gear with m4 rifles that kindly hearded us back out like sheep. Look it up. I feel you might find it very interesting. Look up Weldon springs Missouri Neuclear waste site. There was no sign of any vandalism either. Also there is a 109 page government document stating that the radioactive waste was moved 35miles from that location 40 years before the construction started on the rock mountain
It looks like a giant neolithic structure! It'll be interesting to see what's at the flooded levels. Maybe more even older structures buried beneath the ground?
This makes perfectly clear sensese to a engineer,it was for assembly of V2 rockets, You have to seperate chemicals and the ventilation is to reduce fumes and reduce fire risks.
Sections of it would make for a great Data Centre for servers owned by the top end of town. Forced ingress is next to impossible with a fee strategic air locks. Plenty of room for generators and battery backup.
Mesmerizing episode again, Tino. Thx! The thing I noticed concerning the supposed V2 launch site where the rails. To me they look way too tiny and close together to transport a 12.5 ton V2 rocket safely. I could not find the measurements of the rocket but they look like 3-4 meters (?) 'wing' span. So the rails should have been more like 4 meters apart. These rails look more like made for the little earth transportation trolleys. But even if they where it is strange that they are still there because when you look at the low flyby pictures of after the bombing there is a very big crater at that place. Cool that they will allow you to pump the water out of it. If I would have been the owner it would have been the first thing I would have done.... Don't forget your Geiger teller!
You absolutely have to be correct about those tracks. Those are not even remotely close to being big enough to move a 13 ton object anywhere. I’ve run a 25 ton indoor bridge crane that lifted 22,000lbs + steel forming dies that went into a 1400 ton hydraulic stamping press and a 700ton press and a lot of other massive machines as well. No way in hell would those tiny rails even support that kind of weight let alone have it travel even 2 inches. Those small rails are definitely for a construction cart or something similar. If this was to be a rocket pad door they definitely would have had to install and run much bigger track / rails.
Mr. Von Struckmann, other than WOW!!! I can only say Thank You for my very First and Fantastic Tour of this, as Everything else the German People did, Amazing Monument of German Engineering and Construction!! I am Fanatical about All History but Religious & Military most specifically and as You yourself stated "of World War Two especially" and will add that it Truly causes a very Real Despondency in my Soul, a Heartache and Heartbreak for the German people specifically but stand the risk of my comment being deleted/shadow banned as is common for Me on this platform (proven a few times) and might be anyway if I go into honest but particularly descriptive wording concerning All We have NOT been told about WW 2 and particularly concerning certain truths about Churchill & FDR that are unknown but to a miniscule portion of people living today and if had been known by the American, British and the majority of the non-Vichy French may have prevented their cooperation for a War on Germany after the Dunkirk evacuation and the Lies surrounding even it would likely have led to No War in Europe and the organized withdrawal of All German Military forces from France by the end of 1940 but Churchill 🤮Wouldn't leave it alone and IS the reason why You are standing in a German Megalithic Mystery built on French soil 80 years ago today 😕 I've subscribed to your channel and looking forward to watching your videos there IF a War can hopefully be avoided over Ukraine which is intentionally being manufactured just as both World War's were in the last century and the same for those the U.S. were suckered into after 9 eleven though None of us should Hold our breath while hoping for a ceasefire and and peace to resume.
I did some research on this a long time ago and discovered a man that worked on the site it was for storing gold and precious artifacts that he did not want to get destroyed the man said his great-great-grandpa work there they were told it's storage not V2 Rockets
Maybe germans tried to make a bomb proof base for a new series of longer range V2 missiles with Chlorinetriflouride Oxydator boosted rocket engines, you can build such a rocket much lighter compared to an oxygen/alcohol powered one (making space for a larger warhead and a higher precision Siemens radio guided navigantion system) but transporting CLF3 oxydator is very dangerours it can only be safely stored (and even better produced) localy, starting the rocket nearby. You can store CLF3 in surface passivized aluminum tanks but if such a tank is dropped the aluminum oxyde would pell off and the CLF3 would eat the alumuminum and even most of the surrounding soil/sand & concrete....if you have CLF3 (N Stoff called by the germans) you can make Uraniumhexaflouride and combined with centrifuges (build in Germany by the Anschütz company Kiel by Konrad Beyerle) you can enrich Uranium. You might analyze the inner of the remaining aluminum tanks left in the block house wether it was ever in contact with CLF3=passivized inner surface)
Looks like the place is on a hilltop. Rigid pipeline from water to ditch and that should siphon itself out with some help to get it going. I would expect a lot of concrete and steel scrap to move in order to access the lower parts. The V3 caves apparently have their lower sections pumped full of mud and thus completely inaccessible.
This is fascinating. Not quite so much that the massive building is there, but more what it was built for. From what I've seen in the video, I don't see how V-2 rockets could possibly have been transported in any position anywhere inside the building, and there is no obvious possibility of getting those things out of the building for launching. Post-war intervention could have obscured or destroyed important evidence, but there seems to be little more than aerial bomb damage which didn't do much. The Germans wouldn't have started and continued work on that place for some petty insignificant purpose. They had something big in mind and the main reason that hasn't been discovered is that the project was still in progress and never finished. So get the water out to see what will be revealed. You will most likely get as many questions as answers. Oh. Just one more thing. Has that place been examined for any amount of abnormal radioactive contamination? Just a thought.
I'm curious as to when and who cleaned up the site and the area. The postwar photos show huge amounts of debris from the bombings, yet it now looks like it has been manicured.
My internet was down for over 2 weeks. 😞 I'm playing catch-up. WOW! What a STELLAR REPORT, Tino! Boy, I can't wait to see that thing get drained and explored! (Gee where's WW2 History Hunter with his FiFish rc submersible when you need him) ;-)
These bunkers were amazing. It’s just incredible how huge these structures were. The Germans were amazing building these bunkers. Hats off to them, they were by far way ahead of any other country.. So interesting and wow, they were really bomb proof. Just incredible how massive these structures were.
I can’t stop thinking about the thousands of slave laborers that died to make these monuments of hate and megalomania. Simply forgotten and disregarded.
Perhaps more photos handwritten journals exist somewhere but have not been discovered? With more unanswered questions makes it possible for more questions to be unanswered I wonder if this building was going to be purpose built after the Germans had achieve their primary objectives?
Speculations: maybe it was the first of its kind as a prototype, modular for each site to be updated, upgraded or built as an individual design? Perhaps it was Also exercises in with mock rockets to see what's needed to make any bunker bomb proof with internal and external explosions, how the rockets are best processed from storage to launch position? Maybe the rockets were just loaded with the heads unarmed while within, and fueled/armed when in the final position ready for launching?
Maybe it was going to be used as storage for the Germans, plunder ie: gold, paintings and any thing else they stole on their travels, it would have been heavily fortified to protect the stored contents from bombings etc:whatever it was built for, if it wasn’t for offensive purposes, it may have been built for protecting something just a thought!!
Nice and detailed walk around Tino. My issue is that the British survey team did a great job of recording the site. Yet is says 'Flooded area' and they did not investigate.
Surely the allies had enough of the design team in their hands to demand explanations as to the purpose of these constructions? Speer and Braun would have knowledge of who among the German personnel held as POWs tp give a complete explanation?
Looking at the construction of the heavy water facility, this structure is similar. The Germans didn’t do random things, they had a purpose for this. My take is definitely nuke development was to take place here.
I read something a while back that I found very intriguing, apparently the concrete that the Germans used to make these bunkers, was super strong, and was not easily penetrated! The special formula they used to make this concrete has been lost to time and apparently we can’t reproduce it!!
I think the repurposed bunker was as a rocket supplies, eg liquid O2 oxygen plant , with minimum design change , so stuff specific to rocket launching may have been left behind in rebuild. They didnt mind it looking like V2 rocket launch base, because they intended to deceive the allies ... holes in floors may be for running cables, pipes to the different electrical devices, as the original plan didnt have the services conduits designed right.
Sorry I missed this today (church). I don't understand how/why you would launch a rocket so close to a static site. Thank you for your hard work investigating these areas. This is true history with so many unanswered questions. You should be proud of yourself. Keep up the good work.
Incredible tour and interesting theory. 48:12 The "access flooring" (raised technical flooring) would have been just above the pipes (shown a little later). I suspect (depending on the weather in the area) the pipes may have been for heating (blowing hot air through?). The pipes overhead a little later may have been for cool air, which would fall - while hot air rises.
It was simply a fueling and testing site, and storage area, the germans were developing mobile railled launch systems for v1 and v2, as these sites progressed, more and more features were added or removed as those plans were developed, changed, and just plain deleted, as for the v2 features, it was here that the pressurised fuel vessels for the v2 were tested before launch, as transporting a fully fueled v2 would be a little insane, so these fueling stations were built, 3 of them, also, if you look hard enough, you can find plans for the mobile v2 launchers, remember that the fuel was highly volatile, and the germans experienced many accidents, so had full experience of what a fully loaded v2 exploding on the launch site was, which is why they chose to go with a mobile solution, instead of a hardened launch site, another feature to note is this, the roof is thin, yet the walls extremely thick, this was to protect the facility in case of the fuel or the fuel tanks of the v2 exploding, kinda like a blow out panel on a tank, the thin roof was not a mistake.
MAybe they had planned to use the site as a launch station but when they noticed how much attention it got they might have had the Idea to divert ressources from the Allies to Bombing a Site that was never really important but very well built end defended. It must have taken a lot of Ressources from the Allies away as you already had mentioned that could have done more Damage elsewhere.....
I speak French, am a US lawyer and medical researcher so I help with FOI requests. But, the chance to help you explore these sites ( diving the basement especially) would be so awesome. I'm drone pilot as well.
Please reach out to me on email directly I could definitely use a hand from a lawyer
The germans were wild, ww2 construction reminds me of ancient megalithic structures like the pyramids. Huge, Cold, Intimidating, Technological, Industrial Feel, and confusing enough to leave people guessing what they were built for. Great vid
its becoz Hitler and national socialist germany were in connection with the same entities the pharaohs tried to be in connection with :) *the demons of the 3rd eye DMT LSD world* !
Same! I was gonna make a silly comment about they would have need lost ancient technology to move those blocks
we know exactly what these buildings where for so your confused kinda makes no sense
@@charlestorruella8591 ok, so if you walked into an empty cement room you would know what it was built for? You must have the 6th sense my friend.
Bingo. Wise you are. A ewe most certainly not. Keep going deeper. You are on the right track. Trust your intuition.
RAF Captain Eric "Winkel" Brown single-handedly flew nearly all the German Luftwaffe materiel said, "they were ahead of us at least by a decade", one of the very few pilots to fly the Me163 which he considered very favourably, the Me262 (gave good review).
No where else were there supersonic test tunnels, no other nation had Conrad Zuse' digital computer, no other nation so quickly after the war harnessed nuclear power (read how rapidly France-Germany built highly sophisticated reactors of designs well ahead of UK USA)- Sellafield infamously irradiating everything around it from day 1.
Cruise missiles, loitering munitions, rocket-assisted bombs, rocket assisted artillery, TV-guided TOW, jet turbine, ballistic Missiles, first flying wings (first flight of Northrop which technically is not a Nurflugel (all wing)- it has vertical stabilizers) Northrop N9 flew July 1942, Horten HVa 1936, HVb Cologne-Ostheim in Autumn 1937 inspired by Lippisch Stork and Delta wings, Lippisch building on Fauvel's 1920's work. First stealth cladding for submarine, first true air independent propulsion submarine,
Incredible, mysterious Tino, I’m looking forward to part 2 now. As Capt. Eric Brown said, he was responsible for testing, evaluating all advanced German types at RAE, Farnborough: ‘…we were fighting a very advanced enemy, more advanced than we were…’
germany had the vrills for help
@LaDante LaMichael LaTyrone The Wakandan KANG i highly doubt you even know who the vrils are
@LaDante LaMichael LaTyrone The Wakandan KANG you looked it up. very good!
@LaDante LaMichael LaTyrone The Wakandan KANG no, you havent known butkus, you flaming phony
@LaDante LaMichael LaTyrone The Wakandan KANG yes, we spoke to your mother about that, and she agreed to wash that once a month
According to published records the Grand Slam was only dropped on this site to gauge its effect against concrete, as it was not what it was designed for. It's intended use was to be dropped into soft ground and destroy structures by the "earthquake effect" (UK - Operation 'Front Line; US - 'Project Ruby')
Neither the 10-ton Grand Slam nor the earlier 6-ton Tallboy were ever intended to "penetrate" concrete. They were meant to be dropped NEXT TO a target and destroy it with 'shock waves' passing through the ground.
@@gedeon2696 The tall boy was used to sink German battle ships
@@markmarkmark1821 The caller has to be checked out it was flooded to stop anyone seeing what was there
Probably this was a cover story as the bomb wasn't as effective as portrayed.
It’s fortunate that this site is in private land, in the care of private hands, no vandalism or stupid kids graffiti! 🙏
Agree !!!!
Me to not art is freedoms choice team robo
The only stupid stuff is the BS propaganda history we are supposed to believe, research everything we have been lied to for a long time.
Most people, especially kids, have zero respect for historical sites.
Yes because Private and Public partnerships have never ruined anything. 😊
I recently discovered your channel, and as an avid student of history, I must say that after binge-watching much of your WWII content, my mind is blown! I cannot begin thank you enough for documenting these sites with modern-day tech for posterity. You are a treasure.
@Lola, I would advise you to read some books about the subject, these so called documentaries are rubbish.
@@BolleZijde I have, but you wouldn't know that because you'd rather make assumptions. They're still fun to watch--to see all of the fascinating places that I will never be able to explore in my lifetime. Note: Opinions are like assholes--everybody has one. Yours means nothing to me.
Your mind is blown because you fell for his con. If a story sounds unbelievable then it probably is. The surveillance photos of after it was captured are the same photos, zommed in of "after it was bombed the first time" how can the allies have closer photos after bombing it while in enemy hands than after they have captured it? This guy isn't an academic historian. He's a guy with an interest in history. He talks a great game like any con artist. One video he intimidated that he could meke a ground penetrating radar scan possible for a location. There is a reason that main stream historians haven't uncovered what he has, PROOF, legitimate historians need irrefutable proof, irrefutable proof is not what tino struckmann delivers. But you do you....
I`m glad you have been given permission to drain the lower levels of this place as I am dying to see what`s down there too! Full of mystery this one but a great watch all the same.
So much good going on here, from the obscure places you travel to, the research, presentation and conclusions you come to are all fantastic.
28:00 need to get him a small drone submarine
Remember the most bombing occured after ally control. ALLies. And an AX IS left in backs.
The narrative is all-lies. Can we please agree and move a long and search openly
Tino.....Just started watching this video....all these mysteries surrounding this, and other sites you have shared with us, boggles the mind and fuels the imagination with contemplation!!!! 🚀🚀🚀
The older I get , The more Weird shit comes out about WW2
A. Speer knew much much more than he stated at any time.
Within his 20 years in Spandau, Speer thought out the political correct answers to the questions that he knew he was going to be asked.
The guy was the ARMAMENTS MINISTER for the 1000 year 3rd Reich.
He knew what EVERY room in that V2 facility was intended and used for.
How could Speer NOT know all the details.
The SS General that was to Replace Speer knew what was going on also.
It is my opinion that this entire Idea started out as a testing and then eventually a launching site for the V2 project. Obviously manufacturing a large number of parts and operating systems IN THE INITIAL CONSTRUCTION.
When it was decimated, I honestly think that Speer took the initiation to just make this into a 2 tier project,
1) to make it a bombing magnet ( @ 40% draw on allies bombing effort to distract from other more advanced testing sites etc.
2) Speer knew it was over for the 3rd Reich and Speer ( as part of a much larger plan to save Germany ) actually drew resources from the war effort to END the war a quickly as possible.
After my own extensive study of A Speer, his power and decisions were much more respected and carried out than anyone in the Reich.
Speer was loyal and dedicated to his own thoughts and actions to advance his own career, and would do anything to achieve his own goals. Which he did at Nuremberg.
In all reality, nothing to see in this huge project and facility other than smoke and mirrors, mysteries created to confuse and gain for personal gain and goals.
Nothing makes sense, because it was designed that way.
Thanks for your remarks. A decoy for bombing so Peenemunde could continue to function... not unreasonable...
It seems like a huge waste of precious resources for just a "decoy" don't you think?
Government waste, I just read a book on Hans Kammler have to read again, that facility is a monster
@@scottiebones If it really drew 40% of allied bombings onto it, would worth every piece of steel and concrete wasted for it. Producing V2s wasn't something hard, such a massive facility was never needed, fueling and launching V2s were hard. But building a facility which would be constantly under surveillance and bombed wouldn't help with that at all. Perhaps hitler really thought it could be useful but im sure everybody else knew it was impossible after first bombing so they really used the site as a decoy for both fooling hitler and allies. Atomic research theory again doesn't make sense, any kind of mines could be used for both atomic research and V2 production, no need to build a massive structure which could be seen from space. Allies realized it was a decoy after capturing it but instead of admitting they wasted so much effort to destroy it they came up with ''V2 bunker'' nonsense..
@@scottiebonesit would not be a waste if its ultimate purpose was to mitigate destructive bombing on other important facilities, perhaps ball bearing plants, tank plants, aircraft facilities etcetera.
Man the pumps Tino 👍 another solid presentation that you can only get from this channel ❤️
Tino, often reinforced concrete has mis matched form work. Just because the pattern on the outside of the concrete varies may be because of a construction joint in the timber planks used to create the form work mould. The only way to tell is to scan the reinforcement with something like a Hilti Ferroscan. This will provide an x-ray like image of the reinforcement steel. The image will confirm the stages of construction and confirm the age of what may be an infill of the door opening.
Did you see how much steel was wrapped in those walls? Lol. Do you think you would actually be able to read the ferroscans? Even with multiple angles?
It wouldn't be like scanning walls today or from the last 40yrs where engineers have went skimp on reinforcements.
Good call!
Absolutely fascinating Tino. I recall seeing this structure in the 70's and others. Later in the 80's I saw a number in the east as a visiting seafarer. I also had the opportunity as a Seafarer to visit many closed areas in the east such as Arkhangelsk in the 80's. There are a lot of secrets out their and I for one remain convinced from my own experiences that much was covered up at the end of the war. the reasoning is clear as you state in a country at total war why waste resources.
I went there in the mid 80's, and we where told that there are 3 more stories underground, but they couldn't clear them because they are full of radioactive water. Although they also told us 1of the rooms underwater was aparantly filled with a toxic gas.
Your presentations are amazing on every level! Thank you.
I am not sure what the downward pitch of the terrain is there, but you will need to have the discharge of the pumps to be below the estimated grade of the bottom floor. Hopefully there is three phase power available on site to run the pumps. Pumps running on fuel won't be affordable. Perhaps WWII History Hunter could help with his underwater drone to establish a depth.
That's a great idea.!
Sat here after having had my Sunday roast dinner, with some wine, smoking a very nice cigar and drinking last of the bottle before I start on the Conyac ... and Yes Tino, I am with you now it your way of thinking. Having caught last part on it's debut, I was watcjing it for two minutes, and the bell rang to notify me it was on... 2 hours aftre it had finished.... typical youtube these days. I as I say often, you just can't get the staff these days!
Seems like they started building something strategic, but after the first major bombardment, realized it was a better decoy for allied bombing than anything else…
Part of the reason they didn't have the blast doors in place, comes from when this was constructed. The bunker was constructed between 1943, and 1944. At that time, Germany was severely strapped for resources, in particular steel. The steel needed to make these blast doors would easily be enough to make several tanks, tens of thousands of small arms, ship parts, or all manner of other things Germany needed more. Matters are made worse when you consider it was never actually finished. It was far from operational by the time the Germans abandoned it and it was captured. The repeated bombing had played havoc on the construction. While the bunker itself could easily shrug off the damage, the same can't be said for the supply trains, trucks, and worker compounds surrounding it.
Unfortunately, you're falling into a kind of rabbit hole that happens from time to time with abandoned war time structures. You're assuming that the structure was complete and fully functional, without looking to the context of the time. Had this been completed, then yes, many of the concerns you voice would make sense, but as it was never finished and construction was abandoned, your arguments about blast doors, fume exhausters, and such, fall very short. Historians figure, based on how far into the work the Germans had gotten, that the bunker would have taken another full year (well into 1945) to be completed, as it lacks most all of the needed fixtures and components for the fueling and launching of the rockets.
Sound analysis (unlike this video!) - however the Germans actually stripped it of equipment before abandoning it, so it might well have been making LOX for some period.
@@MarkTillotson Every historical report on this particular bunker notes that it was abandoned before construction could be completed. There were others in the system (similar bunkers) which were used for making LOX.
good analysis. also, i think the video falls into giving too much weight to intelligence assessments presumably being completely correct -- while noting that there were varying opinions at the time -- so for example maybe huge doors were not to be the way to get rockets out to fire, at least by the time it was actually built.
plus, it seems to me there is a big leap of assumption early on, that it wouldn't make sense to move rockets out upright -- at least maybe in some early plan. i'm no rocket scientist, but it immediately comes to mind that liquid fuel rockets might need to be kept upright if filled before moving them out into the open to fire.
I visited this site over twenty years ago and didn’t get anywhere Near the access you did. I have always wondered why you couldn’t see the two V2 exit doors shown on the explanation panels and drawings of the building and your ideas of change of use help that theory. If I may make one suggestion, if you ever do a re edit can you add location drawings to show where you are on the site? I was lost in some parts other than that I loved this video very well done and maybe a small underwater camera may be more suitable and safer than you diving in there! Good luck
Agreed on the camera before doing any diving. Supposed to be multiple levels, unknown depth. Who the hell knows what kinda junk is down there to get snagged on. Permanantly.
Tino, you always find such rare and incredible sites. This one is one of my favourite ones! Great video!
So lets drain the water👍👍👍👍🙏
One of the many reasons Stalin, but especially Beria, were so keen to reach Berlin before the Anglo Americans. Both were aware of the level of the ongoing research carried out at the Kaiser Wilhelm institute in Berlin.
A few of the documents captured there by the NKVD, SMERSH or supplied to them from former staff that have surfaced since the war, provide a fascinating insight into the number and capabilities of "wonder weapons" that thankfully could not be produced in time.
Beria hoped they may counter the Atom bomb...
And that is why we have to get to the Russian archives and convinced them to give it up
Paperclip!
@@tinostruckmann By bribing them.
I have visited this site several times, but I learnt so much more watching your video
Hopefully I will return this coming year
A few kilometers away is a large tunnel where the V3 rockets are build . Near Mimoyecques
Tino, I was at the site in 95, like you I came away with more questions than answers. I heard a story that the resistance reported a large construction with power lines to or from, unable to get close, they assumed it was a reinforced power station. that piqued interest in London. After the visit I assumed the tall galleries were indeed for missiles. But the facility was in the process of re purpose. After all the Coupole at nearby Wizernes was to be more advanced. I expect you will show that too soon.
Thank you Tino & company ... Lost Battlefields vids are so enjoyable and educational, I am so fortunate to have discovered them here on YT.
Looking at the building it appears to have a lack of symmetry, perhaps the gallery that runs to the rear of the bunker and ends abruptly on the right side was originally intended to pass through the right side wall and that side was never fully completed. The right external was was perhaps intended to be an internal wall with a second wall and rocket launch gallery contained there. I know the roof was not wide enough to accommodate this, but it would make sense if perhaps pretty early on in construction the Germans scrapped the whole idea of a launch site and having already completed the left side? What do you think?
The fact that a 12000 lb bomb barely dented it is wild
Excellent Tino! Much appreciated
WOW !!--THAT IS INCREDIBLE !!---THAT WILL BE LIKE "THE TIME MACHINE"--IN 50,000 YEARS PEOPLE WILL BE SAYING 'IT WAS BUILT TO FIGURE OUT THE SEASONS"--THERE IS ENOUGH CONCRETE,-TO BUILD A CITY !!--JUST UNBELIEVABLE !!
did not any of the German designers and engineers not survive to tell what this place was really intended to be used for
lets assume ... and they werent talkin 😂
It's 260 ft deep at minimum
So think a 20-floor building inverted.
This had a way bigger potential/function, just be glad it never got finished.
39:50 That little handle is just a manual backup. You can also see a large electric motor connected to the same gearbox as the crank handle.
power assist crank or a dynamo back up 😂
dynamo !! brilliant rascals eh? 😂
@@DonAltopio I mean, designing a system that important that couldn't be operated without electricity would be *really* stupid, so no, not brilliant, just not stupid.
@@Pest789 indeed 😑
Looking forward to seeing this drained to see what secrets it holds this place is just amazing thanks for sharing this with us great job as usual
Tino, thank you as always for such a superb history lesson.
Great video! Love authentic documentaries.
Even though you showed some assembly footage, it never occurred to you they transported V2’s horizontally and erected them before launch. I’ve seen more launch sites and footage, they would never be transported vertically. They would train them in, erect them, pump them full of LOX and then launch.
This was probably a peroxide/LOX plant.
My dad was one of two people that confirmed where the v-2 was launched the other was the man that was in the nose of his p38k better none as droop snoot p38. The two where on a top secret mission when he was a Recon pilot in WW-2. I now have pictures of a site that was bombed. You can still see the face of the underground part of the and where the rail road tracks went inside. Other than the grounds around it and a pad in front of the bunker you could tell there wasn't much damage. The bunker he took pictures of on a mission didn't look like the one in the video because it was mostly under ground other than the face of the building where the rail road went inside and the area the odserved the lunches it may have been a test site. I just know that was where he witnessed the launch of the v-2. Him and the guy in the nose of the plain had another mission with radio jamming equipment.
The fact the US could not figure out its true purpose, or maybe they did. Shows why they needed their technology to further things at home. Also that "door" May have been used to move equipment inside at some point, then later sealed.
It's fascinating how much history has been lost in such a short period of time. We don't even know what that building is for, even though the truth most likely is withheld from us.
It's tempting to speculate that there was more to this than meets the eye, but I believe that the basic story is correct. It was started with the intention of creating a V2 launching site but allied air attacks rendered that plan obsolete when the surrounding supporting structures were substantially damaged. In order to work at its intended purpose, the whole complex had to remain undamaged.
V2 testing at penemunde saw a great number of failures and explosions on attempted launch, but the operational launch sites were planned for use once the failures had been corrected. Had this site been completed, round the clock launches could have occurred with minimal risk of failure.
With the destruction of significant support buildings and the move to mobile launch vehicles, it makes perfect sense to repurpose the, pretty impregnable, main structure to the production of LOX. The V2 mobile launchers had to operate in northern France so having LOX production available locally makes perfect sense.
So, essentially, you have an intended launch bunker which was never actually completed to design and which was then cobbled into a LOX facility.
One thing it definitely wasn't, at any time, was a nascent nuclear facility. Why? Because the German nuclear programme didn't need a massive, reinforced, facility, miles away from Germany and so conspicuous to the allies. The only realistic reason to try to build that facility there, was the range limitations of the V2.
Great video tour of a very impressive and historical structure.
Spot on, careful analysis, not dodgy dogma.
Gosh i was so hoping this was posted years ago and it would have been drained by now ..... Looking forward
So am I don't worry we'll get to it all
This was amazing! About draining the place, what is the timeline of getting this done?
Another amazing monster construction. And another example of the difficulty of interpreting some of these sites.
Very interesting. The maintenance room on the third floor is a ventilation room with fans on the concrete pillars.
Tino: Another great building site with many questions. What I don't understand is WHY, 77 years after the war is over, are these sites being cemented closed, no one knows anything about it , no building blue prints are available, etc. There were drawings, there were pictures & there were many people who knew EXACTLY what these places & buildings were made for. Most of them are probably now dead, but what is the reason for this secrecy ? Bullshit like this incenses me. What is the big secret? If the Germans had nuclear facilities, why isn't it in the public domain ? I cannot imagine ANY reason why all of these sites don't have their entire operation available to anyone interested. Thanks for your really great videos.
'Because History, is written by the victors'.....
My guess is the Germans began to lose their focus on this and many other projcts until there was no one "minding the store."
hey @Tino how much $$$$ for and under water Drone that would serve you?
The bunker at Watten was never used to launch V2’s, but was a liquid oxygen production facility. The V2’s were launched from La Coupole at Wizernes, which is now a visitor centre restored some years ago with EU funds.
Read about this site and a mission to bomb it in February 1944 by 506 squadron of the 44th Bombardment Group, in the book ‘Ruth-Less and far from home’.
I would be VERY interested in seeing all the interior walls be X-rayed!
I can only imagine all the things that where hidden and entooned during the war!.....
Probably find the bodies of the slaves that died in the construction process...
Those yellow carts I have seen before...
They were the only thing left inside of the "yellow cake" factory when me and my friends somehow managed to let ourselves into back in 2010.
We tried to go back in 2015 and the moment we crossed the barbed wire fence with the us federal property no trespassing signs there were soldiers in full gear with m4 rifles that kindly hearded us back out like sheep.
Look it up. I feel you might find it very interesting.
Look up Weldon springs Missouri Neuclear waste site.
There was no sign of any vandalism either.
Also there is a 109 page government document stating that the radioactive waste was moved 35miles from that location 40 years before the construction started on the rock mountain
It looks like a giant neolithic structure! It'll be interesting to see what's at the flooded levels.
Maybe more even older structures buried beneath the ground?
This is visually interesting but about as informative and revealing as Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault.
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Impressive construction and design. Thanks Tino for bringing this historical sites to us. Greetings from Mexico City.
dude, i love watching yer historical vids, bud
This makes perfectly clear sensese to a engineer,it was for assembly of V2 rockets, You have to seperate chemicals and the ventilation is to reduce fumes and reduce fire risks.
That’s so exciting if you can pump the lower levels out. Pretty big pump to do that though!
No wonder it is no longer in use. It perfectly matches the size and shape of a modern shopping mall !
Sections of it would make for a great Data Centre for servers owned by the top end of town. Forced ingress is next to impossible with a fee strategic air locks. Plenty of room for generators and battery backup.
Been there many times very interesting .... The pain the people suffered building the place thank you for showing this, 😎👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thank you for sharing
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Mesmerizing episode again, Tino. Thx!
The thing I noticed concerning the supposed V2 launch site where the rails. To me they look way too tiny and close together to transport a 12.5 ton V2 rocket safely. I could not find the measurements of the rocket but they look like 3-4 meters (?) 'wing' span. So the rails should have been more like 4 meters apart. These rails look more like made for the little earth transportation trolleys. But even if they where it is strange that they are still there because when you look at the low flyby pictures of after the bombing there is a very big crater at that place.
Cool that they will allow you to pump the water out of it. If I would have been the owner it would have been the first thing I would have done.... Don't forget your Geiger teller!
Those rails could be for construction with intention to change to different rails later.
You absolutely have to be correct about those tracks. Those are not even remotely close to being big enough to move a 13 ton object anywhere. I’ve run a 25 ton indoor bridge crane that lifted 22,000lbs + steel forming dies that went into a 1400 ton hydraulic stamping press and a 700ton press and a lot of other massive machines as well. No way in hell would those tiny rails even support that kind of weight let alone have it travel even 2 inches. Those small rails are definitely for a construction cart or something similar. If this was to be a rocket pad door they definitely would have had to install and run much bigger track / rails.
Man I wish I could go with you and help drain the basement
And once and for All see what it was used for.
Good luck.
I hope to see it soon
Mr. Von Struckmann, other than WOW!!! I can only say Thank You for my very First and Fantastic Tour of this, as Everything else the German People did, Amazing Monument of German Engineering and Construction!! I am Fanatical about All History but Religious & Military most specifically and as You yourself stated "of World War Two especially" and will add that it Truly causes a very Real Despondency in my Soul, a Heartache and Heartbreak for the German people specifically but stand the risk of my comment being deleted/shadow banned as is common for Me on this platform (proven a few times) and might be anyway if I go into honest but particularly descriptive wording concerning All We have NOT been told about WW 2 and particularly concerning certain truths about Churchill & FDR that are unknown but to a miniscule portion of people living today and if had been known by the American, British and the majority of the non-Vichy French may have prevented their cooperation for a War on Germany after the Dunkirk evacuation and the Lies surrounding even it would likely have led to No War in Europe and the organized withdrawal of All German Military forces from France by the end of 1940 but Churchill 🤮Wouldn't leave it alone and IS the reason why You are standing in a German Megalithic Mystery built on French soil 80 years ago today 😕
I've subscribed to your channel and looking forward to watching your videos there IF a War can hopefully be avoided over Ukraine which is intentionally being manufactured just as both World War's were in the last century and the same for those the U.S. were suckered into after 9 eleven though None of us should Hold our breath while hoping for a ceasefire and and peace to resume.
The answer lays in why they had Madem Curie’s son come and look. It’s an early nuclear facility test site.
amazing work , i am looking forward to seeing the next
I did some research on this a long time ago and discovered a man that worked on the site it was for storing gold and precious artifacts that he did not want to get destroyed the man said his great-great-grandpa work there they were told it's storage not V2 Rockets
Wow the building is something.Can not wait till next video on this.
Maybe germans tried to make a bomb proof base for a new series of longer range V2 missiles with Chlorinetriflouride Oxydator boosted rocket engines, you can build such a rocket much lighter compared to an oxygen/alcohol powered one (making space for a larger warhead and a higher precision Siemens radio guided navigantion system) but transporting CLF3 oxydator is very dangerours it can only be safely stored (and even better produced) localy, starting the rocket nearby. You can store CLF3 in surface passivized aluminum tanks but if such a tank is dropped the aluminum oxyde would pell off and the CLF3 would eat the alumuminum and even most of the surrounding soil/sand & concrete....if you have CLF3 (N Stoff called by the germans) you can make Uraniumhexaflouride and combined with centrifuges (build in Germany by the Anschütz company Kiel by Konrad Beyerle) you can enrich Uranium. You might analyze the inner of the remaining aluminum tanks left in the block house wether it was ever in contact with CLF3=passivized inner surface)
yes Werner von Braun build the Saturn rocket, so this maybe his dream factory for America Rocket
Looks like the place is on a hilltop. Rigid pipeline from water to ditch and that should siphon itself out with some help to get it going. I would expect a lot of concrete and steel scrap to move in order to access the lower parts. The V3 caves apparently have their lower sections pumped full of mud and thus completely inaccessible.
A lot of the lights work, after all these years. Way cool.
This is fascinating. Not quite so much that the massive building is there, but more what it was built for. From what I've seen in the video, I don't see how V-2 rockets could possibly have been transported in any position anywhere inside the building, and there is no obvious possibility of getting those things out of the building for launching. Post-war intervention could have obscured or destroyed important evidence, but there seems to be little more than aerial bomb damage which didn't do much. The Germans wouldn't have started and continued work on that place for some petty insignificant purpose. They had something big in mind and the main reason that hasn't been discovered is that the project was still in progress and never finished. So get the water out to see what will be revealed. You will most likely get as many questions as answers.
Oh. Just one more thing. Has that place been examined for any amount of abnormal radioactive contamination? Just a thought.
Again youre awesome great episode love it
I'm curious as to when and who cleaned up the site and the area. The postwar photos show huge amounts of debris from the bombings, yet it now looks like it has been manicured.
Very interesting, thanks for doing this man!
My internet was down for over 2 weeks. 😞 I'm playing catch-up. WOW! What a STELLAR REPORT, Tino!
Boy, I can't wait to see that thing get drained and explored! (Gee where's WW2 History Hunter with his FiFish rc submersible when you need him) ;-)
These bunkers were amazing. It’s just incredible how huge these structures were. The Germans were amazing building these bunkers. Hats off to them, they were by far way ahead of any other country.. So interesting and wow, they were really bomb proof. Just incredible how massive these structures were.
I can’t stop thinking about the thousands of slave laborers that died to make these monuments of hate and megalomania. Simply forgotten and disregarded.
Hi Tino went there today the size is way bigger in person fascinating place hope there is a follow up in a years later.
Perhaps more photos handwritten journals exist somewhere but have not been discovered? With more unanswered questions makes it possible for more questions to be unanswered
I wonder if this building was going to be purpose built after the Germans had achieve their primary objectives?
Speculations: maybe it was the first of its kind as a prototype, modular for each site to be updated, upgraded or built as an individual design? Perhaps it was Also exercises in with mock rockets to see what's needed to make any bunker bomb proof with internal and external explosions, how the rockets are best processed from storage to launch position?
Maybe the rockets were just loaded with the heads unarmed while within, and fueled/armed when in the final position ready for launching?
Maybe it was going to be used as storage for the Germans, plunder ie: gold, paintings and any thing else they stole on their travels, it would have been heavily fortified to protect the stored contents from bombings etc:whatever it was built for, if it wasn’t for offensive purposes, it may have been built for protecting something just a thought!!
Nice and detailed walk around Tino. My issue is that the British survey team did a great job of recording the site. Yet is says 'Flooded area' and they did not investigate.
give it time ... someones gonna go snorkelin bro 😅 ems dive team soon to follow
Surely the allies had enough of the design team in their hands to demand explanations as to the purpose of these constructions?
Speer and Braun would have knowledge of who among the German personnel held as POWs tp give a complete explanation?
When do you ga back to the blockhouse.. to see whats under the water?
Amazing channel, I'd love to see what's at the lowest level of this place. Very interesting. Thank you.
To bad people cannot tour this place..seems very interesting to see it still standing after all these years!
You can tour it or at least I did a few years ago
with every turn. this becomes more and more fascinating. thank you for you work tino
Looking at the construction of the heavy water facility, this structure is similar. The Germans didn’t do random things, they had a purpose for this. My take is definitely nuke development was to take place here.
I read something a while back that I found very intriguing, apparently the concrete that the Germans used to make these bunkers, was super strong, and was not easily penetrated! The special formula they used to make this concrete has been lost to time and apparently we can’t reproduce it!!
That is correct there's still trying to figure it out today
I think the repurposed bunker was as a rocket supplies, eg liquid O2 oxygen plant , with minimum design change , so stuff specific to rocket launching may have been left behind in rebuild. They didnt mind it looking like V2 rocket launch base, because they intended to deceive the allies ... holes in floors may be for running cables, pipes to the different electrical devices, as the original plan didnt have the services conduits designed right.
right, scuttled, repurposed and abandoned 🤔
Sorry I missed this today (church). I don't understand how/why you would launch a rocket so close to a static site.
Thank you for your hard work investigating these areas. This is true history with so many unanswered questions. You should be proud of yourself.
Keep up the good work.
Incredible tour and interesting theory.
48:12 The "access flooring" (raised technical flooring) would have been just above the pipes (shown a little later). I suspect (depending on the weather in the area) the pipes may have been for heating (blowing hot air through?). The pipes overhead a little later may have been for cool air, which would fall - while hot air rises.
It was simply a fueling and testing site, and storage area, the germans were developing mobile railled launch systems for v1 and v2, as these sites progressed, more and more features were added or removed as those plans were developed, changed, and just plain deleted, as for the v2 features, it was here that the pressurised fuel vessels for the v2 were tested before launch, as transporting a fully fueled v2 would be a little insane, so these fueling stations were built, 3 of them, also, if you look hard enough, you can find plans for the mobile v2 launchers, remember that the fuel was highly volatile, and the germans experienced many accidents, so had full experience of what a fully loaded v2 exploding on the launch site was, which is why they chose to go with a mobile solution, instead of a hardened launch site, another feature to note is this, the roof is thin, yet the walls extremely thick, this was to protect the facility in case of the fuel or the fuel tanks of the v2 exploding, kinda like a blow out panel on a tank, the thin roof was not a mistake.
I LOVE the rain ambience!
MAybe they had planned to use the site as a launch station but when they noticed how much attention it got they might have had the Idea to divert ressources from the Allies to Bombing a Site that was never really important but very well built end defended. It must have taken a lot of Ressources from the Allies away as you already had mentioned that could have done more Damage elsewhere.....
Again, Happy Holiday Season to you, Tino.
Working, on Xmas Day, again, no doubt?
Kindness to you.
Danke!
Danke sehr:-)
I can't wait for the part 2 of this.
You'll figure it out, Tino.