Translation for the Propaganda written on the walls: 2:08 Original: "Wir sind vergänglich aber Deutschland muss leben" English: "We are transient but Germany must live" 2:33 This one is actually a rhyme, a two line poem. Hard to translate directly. Original: "Gefangen sein, bringt harte Pein, drum ficht, bis dir das Auge bricht" English: "Being captured brings terrible pain, so fight until your eyes break. This is meant to motivate the soldiers to fight to the death. Being german myself this is very intersting to see, propaganda like this and especially everything with a swastika on it was destroyed after the war. Things like that bring colour to the stories of my grandfathers. In the last years of the war they did not fight for the nazi ideology, they fought for their Vaterland, for their wifes and children at home. Or because they were terrified by the idea of ending in a soviet prison. Just like every soldier would. This all makes me sad ...
Allies should not have destroyed so many historical German places pictures bunkers etc after the war should have been kept for future generations that normal German servicemen was just doing there duty to protect there families and country only Gestapo and SS was assholes I met some German veterans and was so friendly and stories of British and German soldiers helping each other if injured
@@Callmehkitten6 Well they set the world on fire. At least our half of the world. We lost so much ... but i can't deny that it was completely justified. One of my grandfathers was in the Waffen-SS. He was a nazi until he died a few years ago. He was a nice guy really, but he strongly believed in the superiority of the german race. Which is ridiculous of course. He always told my brother and me that we would have been officers in the SS as well, since we were strong, blonde and purely arian. Well ... as you can imagine it wasn't always easy to get along with him ... but yeah, he was still my grandfather and part of who i am, right? He was made this way by the teachings of his days. So getting rid of everything nazi related probably was a good idea after the war. Together with the decision by our western friends not to punish my people for what they have done, but to give them a new chance and help them with money and ressources. That was the only way to overcome the hate and create peace in eruope. We will never forget that. But there are still quite a lot of nazi buildings left all over germany. Many were simply too strong to be destroyed. In my city there are many big bunkers left (Hochbunker). Pretty much the only buildings that survided the war, apart from most of the churches. My city had and still has an important steel and swire industry as well as one of the biggest freight train stations in western europe. They never stood a chance to survive the heavy bombing for weeks on end.
That's the first time I've ever seen a German mechanical firing computer! I think that's the best bunker you've had on your show so far! It's great seeing all the original equipment still in place!
Wow, a fully stocked and preserved bunker, The size of that gun is amazing. I am glad they preserved and restocked must be part of a historic park. thank you for sharing this amazing site.
What a terrific site! So great that they have restored the site with all those artifacts. Wish I could actually visit the site and spend the day going through it. Probably never will happen so I greatly appreciate you taking us along on these fantastic trips! Thank you so very much!
Absolutely stunning to see how intact the facility is and it gives insight into the way it was during that time frame...truly a reminder of history...thanks for your hard work and presenting such a good view into the past
It is so interesting to see what it might have looked like back when it was in use. Must have taken a long time to restore the bunker. It would have been nice to take photos and post them on a web site if you had one. And your right most of us will never see what you see by being there. All your videos are great and this one is no exception. Great job Doug
Heated bunkers and intricate solid steel artillary calculator . To bad the war happend there was good people on german side such a waste of potential just look at the innovation and quality of work , they were a very smart and industrious people. Awsome video!
snappytoetapper6 loved what you said there,yeah war never does eany one eany good,peace, respect and understanding is what we need,👍.nice one,be safe my friend,kc Keith, uk,Scotland, ☺.
Pierre Klee ,true, we do have to fight the evil of today very aggressively, as they are aggressive in what they do,I like what you say and think my friend,respect to you pierre, stay safe my friend,kc Keith. 👍.
Skyserve News Service ,yeah war is the last thing we revert to,realy wish wars were never ever a part of the human life,but some times we need to face our evils and confront it,,peace is the answer to overall happiness,peace and respect to one an other,👍.kc keith,Scotland, uk.
Excellent video I really enjoyed it no complaints just wish you would have taken a second to translate some of the sayings on the walls and through out Totally awesome to see how it looked when it was operational Thank you for sharing
I have viewed your vids for years which has allowed my WW II artifacts knowledge base to grow. You educate all with your keen knowledge of artifact identifications and engaging presentation. I occasionally watch others that do a great job of performance but their knowledge level of the WW II time frame is no comparison to your expertise. I find myself talking to the screen, when I watch others, telling the presenters what they're looking at, because of you and your family. I would like to thank you once again for the efforts you make. Well done.
May I add, that the fascinating "artillery calculator" was of course, a type of early "computer", as what it did was tied all the variables (wind speed and direction, distance, elevation, etc.) together mathematically & geometrically which enabled the Germans to use these data to precisely hit their target, .......and they were very good at it by the way.
Another excellent video my friend. It was nice to see how some of the soldiers lived within bunkers that had heat, lights and the weaponry at their hands while so many more had to slug it out in with nature on the front lines. Thank you for sharing and letting us relive history with you.
Wow! This site is phenomenal. The restoration is perfect. You almost expect to turn a corner and see German servicemen at work on the equipment. Thank you so much, as at last we see what used to be in some of the larger bunkers.
Amazing just amazing bunker, it is so cool to see the almost working thing...nice to Connect back to the many locations you have showed us in your videos👍 loved it.
Wow weeeee! That truly is amazing! Now I see with eyes wide open! To actually SEE how the bunks were hanging from the ceiling hooks, how the rooms and equipment looked assembled and in place! So exciting to see a bunker pretty much restored IS amazing! And to actually SEE the big gunner! Now, it comes to life! I just watched a video with a bunker similar with some of the missile equipment but nothing like this video! Thoroughly enjoyed this tour! Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful tour of a restored German coastal artillery bunker. Most would never have the opportunity to see this. It's like the German Soldiers just left yesterday. Thank you.
A very interesting to see more things connected to your videos brings in the prospective of years of your work and things you have found!!,thanks again great video!!
Nice to see the bunks hanging from the hangers you are a,ways showing us. You could spend hours looking at everything this bunker has to offer. I enjoy seeing the ammunition trollies . You can tell us about all the different things they had at locations like this but seeing them gives us a better understanding of them.
I love these type of bunker museums, clean and original, almost as if the troops had just gone out on a lunch break. You mentioned at the beginning, same guns as the Bismark? "Captain Eric Winkle Brown" a Scottish pilot disabled the Bismark by hitting the rudder with a torpedo fired from a Swordfish (first take-off from a moving ship) disabling its rudder allowed another boats to sink the ship. He was a test pilot who flew 487 different aircraft for the RAF, he also did 2,500 test landings on aircraft carriers in world WWII, allowing modern warfare to develop today, putting his life at risk on every attempt. A fluent German speaker, he was the first person to interrogate Hermann Goring, he also question SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp on its liberation. Sadly Cpt Brown died in 2016 aged 97, as a fellow Scot, I am tremendously proud of his incredible and remarkable achievements. Without doubt, he was the bravest aviator Britain has ever seen. While others were awarded the GM, DFC, CBE, DSO, VC or a Knighthood, , Brown was never recognised.
It's so good to see all complete. Really adds to your exploring videos Here we have two forts at the entrance to the bay one is abandoned the other is operating. When you visit the operational one it all makes sense
Hi history hunter. I've just discovered that my roommate has just started taking care of a 90 yr old German WW2 veteran. He was drafted at the age of 14 about 7 moths before the end of the war. Apparently his father was captured on the eastern front and was a prisoner of war buy the Soviet Union and spent about 18 yrs as such. I'm hoping that I can meet this man myself in the next few weeks. If I can I'll try and get a video of his stories if he's willing to share with me. I'll share with you if possible
Wow that is a really awesome place. I can't wait for my daughter to be old enough to join me in the museum trips. I have so many here in the Ardennes :) Thanks for making this cool video and of course for sharing it. Cheers & happy hunting :)
It's definitely worth watching. Although we are thousands of miles away and can never see with our naked eyes accept through world war II histories from studying books, the story connects to what we've learned. Thanks. It's amazing how the technologies were and who were behind those.
Great video.... A lot of the things you find and places you take us really come together with this video.. Thank you very much for posting. I learned even more history today.
amazing how it's in such good shape with maintenance compared to the others you've shown completely ravaged by the elements. that diesel electric looks like something you see in U boats.thanks again.
After the war so much history was destroyed. I really am enjoying this video for the first time I can fully understand the way that a bunker was set up. We must preserve our history
Great video. I watched one of your older clips last night, it was of similar design with no canopy over the gun. It is amazing to see all the loading equipment in place. You should post a link to the other video for a a then and now comparison. Awesome content.
The engineering of the Germans is incredible , so far advanced throughout the world at the time ! Amazing bunker , amazing is the correct word to use going through there showing us this, thank you and stay safe !
Wow just wow .What an amazing location to see such a magnificent bunker in all its glory is just amazing. You knocked it out of the ball park with this video excellent 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
After watching this video I get a better understanding of what was mounted on the walls in the bunkers that have been abandoned and it’s equipment removed.
Great piece of history and telling. When was the bunker restored? In the mid-1970s when I was a serviceman stationed at Buechel and Spanagdelham, most Germans I knew were not well informed or didn't talk about, the war. I was in temporary housing with a man and wife in Ulmen. Heir Hilger was a POW and held in Chicago until repatriated after the war.
I've seen something similar in a museum at the Belgian coast. Perfectly preserved German bunkers that formed a part of the Atlantikwall, very interesting.
Very interesting. Would like to have seen more of the main gun. Was it possible to go inside? I noticed a ladder leading to a door in the housing of the gun. Wanted to see inside there. Thank you.
Scenery is gorgeous. Wow, what an amazing place with well preserved German WW2 artifacts, many still in working condition and all telling a story. I bet little EE had a fun time trying out all the different machinery. What a little cutie, so intrigued with WW2 history just like his Father. I would be like a child in a candy store there. :) The Germans were so advanced and ahead of their time, some of the technology still used today. Even the sharp looking uniforms were in good shape. Thanks you for taking us there HH and EE.
Great video. Nice to share time with family learning about and finding history. There are so many comments, and it could have been missed, but where is this naval gun emplacement museum? Best wishes!
The Americans built a bunker in a hill outside my home town in Newzealand in ww2. It has miles of tunnels, multi levels, with generators, ventilation, accommodation, etc, for hundreds of personnel. As a young man I knew a guy who lived next to it. He and his brother discovered a ventilation pipe big enough to crawl inside and enter the complex. We explored it for days on end without seeing the whole thing. Nowadays, a small portion is sometimes open to the public. I don't think people really know how big it is further down (Very big).
So glad that there restoring some of these bunkers with artifacts for the future generations to see and appreciate. So many of them without care will be totally gone in another 50years and then it will be to late.
Only just found this one History Hunter, excellent video I'm amazed at what was actually inside one of these emplacements thank you for your efforts,if you know of any more I'm sure all your viewers would enjoy it as much as me 👍🇦🇺
I had to watch this video again. I wonder how many times these weapons were fired? With all that equipment I bet they had drills all the time. Trying to keep everything running properly was a challenge I bet. The German military really had thier acts together to create and operate a Installation like that. Incredible. Thanks again and it looks like EE was having fun with the targeting computer of the day. I can do all that with a compass but it isn't precise as that equipment. I'm sure you have taught EE how to use a compass to find out his location so he doesn't have to rely on a GPS unit. Reading a compass was big in my Boyscout troop. You can't be lost with a co.pass and a good topographic map. Well a wonderful video as always Happy History Hunting my friend. Say hi to EE and BBG for me and my family is thinking of yours. Be safe.
EE is a Boyscout and he loves being out there and working with nature. The targeting computer is truly something else and i i baffles me to see how advanced that thing is even though it is just a mechanical thing. Thanks my friend and be safe out there.
@@WW2HistoryHunter I know what you are saying about the computers. It's good that he is in Boyscouts. Do they go coming once a month? I loved the camping trips and the week long summer camp. Whenever went to the Boyscout camp grounds. We always went some place different every year and each patrol got to plan thier own week long camp and had to find adults to go with them. The kids controlled the troop. It was fun that way. I guess I'm old school because I don't bring a phone. I leave them locked up in the gun safe in my truck. I don't want anyone stealing it when I'm out and about. After I broke down in the mountains and my Boyscout handbook saved my life by showing me the edible plants and three rabbits that gave their lives up for me to live. I was only out there for 3 nights and could have lived without killing them but it was part of the whole survival thing.
Great video absolutely love your stuff and I'm seriously jealous of what you get to see and experience in regards to World War 2 history and look forward to every video keep up the great work. P.S. you couldn't use the word amazing enough especially with this location
Thank you so very much for what you do I know I will never be able to see these sites for myself Life is so short and I am running out of time to see all the amazing things Thank you my old friend, you do not know me but you bring a lot of joy to my hart I will most certainly contribute to your account
The two big cylinders look like pressure tanks for the drinking water system. I also saw some pumps there,but they might be for pumping flood water out of the room.VERY cool video-where is this located? Being restored,I'm thinking they'd offer tours and take donations.
I believe the long tubes that had sights in the middle of the tubes which I believe there were approximately three of them all of different sizes were used to look up at planes flying up high and it determined their altitude. I have seen them before in other video's. The concrete needs to be repaired or it will crumble to the ground.
Not entirely sure, but that engine being used for the generator looks a lot like the power plants used in the u-boats of the day. The engine design apparently originate from ww1, and are started on compressed air supplied by a small compressor. The engine once started drives a larger compressor that supplies compressed air for the fuel injection. If you ever watch Das Boot, the scene where they start up the engines again, you see the engineer push forward a lever that opens the starting air valve, and you hear the hiss of the air starting to crank the engine. Not many films get small touches like that correct.
I believe that "calculator" shown at the beginning of this video is what was called in English a gun director , which was a mechanical calculator used to aim a large gun at a target. The Krupp 88 canons came with gun directors. When my Father was 15 in 1940 here in California he felt strongly that it was only a matter of time before the US would end up fighting in WW 2 and felt it was his duty to be prepared when the US got into the war. As a child my Father knew he wanted to become an engineer and was very good at math. So at 15 he bought his first slide rule, and taught himself calculus as well as artillery ballistics. By 16 my Father felt ready to design his first engineering project: a gun director. Shortly after the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor the US Army set up an anti-aircraft battery at a school near where my Father lived. What interested him was he saw a gun director for the first time which looked very much like the one my Father was designing. He also noticed that the gun battery had a great deal of radio equipment, much more than would be needed for communications . Right then and there my Father thought they must be using radio waves to measure the range of an airplane approaching the gun's position. Later he found out it was called radar and was a "big" secret. Just after December, 7th 1941 my Father signed up to join the US Navy. He had to get his Parent's permission to do so and he had to wait until after his birthday at the end of February when he turned 17 to start basic training. By late fall of 1942 he had finished his training in Fire Control which in the US Navy which meant aiming and firing the large caliber guns on a ship. My Father was put on a troop train heading for the big Naval base on the East Coast at Norfolk, Virginia. He was assigned to one of the then newest destroyers going into service no more the 2 years before the US entered the War. What he became most excited about was the ship's Mark 1 Fire Control COMPUTER #19. This was an analog, mechanical computer unlike modern programmable digital computers. But all the 5 inch (127 millimeter ) guns and the torpedo tubes could be controlled from the Fire Control Computer on all destroyers built after 1941 for the US Navy. The main point of the fire control computer is it would automate control of the aiming of the 5 inch guns which where the prime anti aircraft guns on US Navy destroyers and the other larger warships in the US Navy. It is very hard to shot down a plane going almost 300 miles per hour taking evasive action from a small ship moving at speeds over 30 knots and being pushed around by ocean waves. Using input from the Fire Control radar, gyros in the computer, input on things like wind speeds , currents and from optical rangefinders, the computer was continuously moving the ship's 5 inch guns to track its target up until the guns fired. On a US WW 2 5 inch Naval gun crews were expected to fire 22 rounds a minute at rapid fire, that's firing a new round in less than 3 seconds .
Outstanding!! Gives total perspective when seeing your other videos. Obviously it's a museum it would have been nice for you to tell us where you saw this so that when we visit Europe we could also see it for ourselves. You speak of a friend who is rebuilding a bunker is this the one that you speak about??
Translation for the Propaganda written on the walls:
2:08
Original: "Wir sind vergänglich aber Deutschland muss leben"
English: "We are transient but Germany must live"
2:33 This one is actually a rhyme, a two line poem. Hard to translate directly.
Original: "Gefangen sein, bringt harte Pein,
drum ficht, bis dir das Auge bricht"
English: "Being captured brings terrible pain,
so fight until your eyes break.
This is meant to motivate the soldiers to fight to the death. Being german myself this is very intersting to see, propaganda like this and especially everything with a swastika on it was destroyed after the war. Things like that bring colour to the stories of my grandfathers. In the last years of the war they did not fight for the nazi ideology, they fought for their Vaterland, for their wifes and children at home. Or because they were terrified by the idea of ending in a soviet prison. Just like every soldier would. This all makes me sad ...
Thanks for taking time to comment and watch.
WW2HistoryHunter You are welcome. Thank you for showing me those places!
Allies should not have destroyed so many historical German places pictures bunkers etc after the war should have been kept for future generations that normal German servicemen was just doing there duty to protect there families and country only Gestapo and SS was assholes I met some German veterans and was so friendly and stories of British and German soldiers helping each other if injured
@@Callmehkitten6 Well they set the world on fire. At least our half of the world. We lost so much ... but i can't deny that it was completely justified. One of my grandfathers was in the Waffen-SS. He was a nazi until he died a few years ago. He was a nice guy really, but he strongly believed in the superiority of the german race. Which is ridiculous of course. He always told my brother and me that we would have been officers in the SS as well, since we were strong, blonde and purely arian. Well ... as you can imagine it wasn't always easy to get along with him ... but yeah, he was still my grandfather and part of who i am, right? He was made this way by the teachings of his days. So getting rid of everything nazi related probably was a good idea after the war. Together with the decision by our western friends not to punish my people for what they have done, but to give them a new chance and help them with money and ressources. That was the only way to overcome the hate and create peace in eruope. We will never forget that.
But there are still quite a lot of nazi buildings left all over germany. Many were simply too strong to be destroyed. In my city there are many big bunkers left (Hochbunker). Pretty much the only buildings that survided the war, apart from most of the churches. My city had and still has an important steel and swire industry as well as one of the biggest freight train stations in western europe. They never stood a chance to survive the heavy bombing for weeks on end.
That's the first time I've ever seen a German mechanical firing computer! I think that's the best bunker you've had on your show so far! It's great seeing all the original equipment still in place!
Great to hear Bob and thanks for watching.
Interesting and informative ,good to see the " big picture " of how things were used and what they looked like as complete units.
Thanks King
It's a pleasure to see such a well preserved location. Thank you for yet another brilliant video!
Thanks Kev.
Wow, a fully stocked and preserved bunker, The size of that gun is amazing. I am glad they preserved and restocked must be part of a historic park. thank you for sharing this amazing site.
Thanks for watching.
Thank you for your great efforts. That was a very cool video.
Excellent video. Thank you so much for taking the time to film the bunker. The engineering and construction involved is incredible.
Thanks Brad
wow that bunker is an amazing bunker. very cool video. best TH-cam channel ever
So glad to read that :)
Wow! You continue to amaze with fascinating videos. Many thanks
Thank you Laura :)
What a terrific site! So great that they have restored the site with all those artifacts. Wish I could actually visit the site and spend the day going through it. Probably never will happen so I greatly appreciate you taking us along on these fantastic trips! Thank you so very much!
Glad you enjoyed it
Absolutely stunning to see how intact the facility is and it gives insight into the way it was during that time frame...truly a reminder of history...thanks for your hard work and presenting such a good view into the past
Thanks jerry
It is so interesting to see what it might have looked like back when it was in use. Must have taken a long time to restore the bunker. It would have been nice to take photos and post them on a web site if you had one. And your right most of us will never see what you see by being there.
All your videos are great and this one is no exception.
Great job
Doug
Appreciated Doug and thanks for watching.
That is absolutely incredible.
The amount of work acquiring relics to make a fully restored bunker must have been immense.
Thanks for watching.
Heated bunkers and intricate solid steel artillary calculator . To bad the war happend there was good people on german side such a waste of potential just look at the innovation and quality of work , they were a very smart and industrious people.
Awsome video!
snappytoetapper6 loved what you said there,yeah war never does eany one eany good,peace, respect and understanding is what we need,👍.nice one,be safe my friend,kc Keith, uk,Scotland, ☺.
So true but as long as there is evil in the world, war is a necessary evil.
Pierre Klee ,true, we do have to fight the evil of today very aggressively, as they are aggressive in what they do,I like what you say and think my friend,respect to you pierre, stay safe my friend,kc Keith. 👍.
WAR is such a wast!
Skyserve News Service ,yeah war is the last thing we revert to,realy wish wars were never ever a part of the human life,but some times we need to face our evils and confront it,,peace is the answer to overall happiness,peace and respect to one an other,👍.kc keith,Scotland, uk.
Excellent video I really enjoyed it no complaints just wish you would have taken a second to translate some of the sayings on the walls and through out
Totally awesome to see how it looked when it was operational
Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching.
I have viewed your vids for years which has allowed my WW II artifacts knowledge base to grow. You educate all with your keen knowledge of artifact identifications and engaging presentation. I occasionally watch others that do a great job of performance but their knowledge level of the WW II time frame is no comparison to your expertise. I find myself talking to the screen, when I watch others, telling the presenters what they're looking at, because of you and your family. I would like to thank you once again for the efforts you make. Well done.
He he , well thanks for the kind Words and Greetings from us.
May I add, that the fascinating "artillery calculator" was of course, a type of early
"computer", as what it did was tied all the variables (wind speed and direction, distance, elevation, etc.) together mathematically & geometrically which enabled the Germans to use these data to precisely hit their target, .......and they were very good at it by the way.
Great details there indeed. Thanks Karl.
Fascinating bunker, real history there, remarkable condition, thanks!
Thanks for watching.
Mr. HistoryHunter this, I believe, is the best yet! This was GREAT history. Thank you very much for the tour! ! ! !
Thanks Chevy
I try to picture what the bunkers look like and to see one like it was back then. Thank you for showing this my friend. As always great video.
Thanks John.
Another excellent video my friend. It was nice to see how some of the soldiers lived within bunkers that had heat, lights and the weaponry at their hands while so many more had to slug it out in with nature on the front lines. Thank you for sharing and letting us relive history with you.
Always appreciated Ted and Greetings from us.
Wow! This site is phenomenal. The restoration is perfect. You almost expect to turn a corner and see German servicemen at work on the equipment. Thank you so much, as at last we see what used to be in some of the larger bunkers.
Good location indeed my friend. Thanks.
So COOL to get to see one completely intact!! You've done it again. Thank you so much!!
Greetings Rosemary and thanks.
The rangefinder at 6:30 is similar to what was used on Bismarck for the main guns. Thanks for sharing!
cool detail and thanks for watching.
Amazing just amazing bunker, it is so cool to see the almost working thing...nice to Connect back to the many locations you have showed us in your videos👍 loved it.
GLad you liked it and Greetings from us.
Wow weeeee! That truly is amazing! Now I see with eyes wide open! To actually SEE how the bunks were hanging from the ceiling hooks, how the rooms and equipment looked assembled and in place! So exciting to see a bunker pretty much restored IS amazing! And to actually SEE the big gunner! Now, it comes to life! I just watched a video with a bunker similar with some of the missile equipment but nothing like this video! Thoroughly enjoyed this tour! Thank you!
Very glad for that and just what i though recording thanks. Thanks again for being here :)
Absolutely beautiful tour of a restored German coastal artillery bunker. Most would never have the opportunity to see this. It's like the German Soldiers just left yesterday. Thank you.
Thanks for comment and for watching.
A very interesting to see more things connected to your videos brings in the prospective of years of your work and things you have found!!,thanks again great video!!
Thanks Richard.
Nice to see the bunks hanging from the hangers you are a,ways showing us. You could spend hours looking at everything this bunker has to offer. I enjoy seeing the ammunition trollies . You can tell us about all the different things they had at locations like this but seeing them gives us a better understanding of them.
Could spend days there and love that. Thanks.
I love these type of bunker museums, clean and original, almost as if the troops had just gone out on a lunch break.
You mentioned at the beginning, same guns as the Bismark? "Captain Eric Winkle Brown" a Scottish pilot disabled the Bismark by hitting the rudder with a torpedo fired from a Swordfish (first take-off from a moving ship) disabling its rudder allowed another boats to sink the ship. He was a test pilot who flew 487 different aircraft for the RAF, he also did 2,500 test landings on aircraft carriers in world WWII, allowing modern warfare to develop today, putting his life at risk on every attempt. A fluent German speaker, he was the first person to interrogate Hermann Goring, he also question SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp on its liberation. Sadly Cpt Brown died in 2016 aged 97, as a fellow Scot, I am tremendously proud of his incredible and remarkable achievements. Without doubt, he was the bravest aviator Britain has ever seen. While others were awarded the GM, DFC, CBE, DSO, VC or a Knighthood, , Brown was never recognised.
Thanks for great comment and for watching my friend.
It's so good to see all complete. Really adds to your exploring videos
Here we have two forts at the entrance to the bay one is abandoned the other is operating. When you visit the operational one it all makes sense
Thanks for watching.
Hi history hunter. I've just discovered that my roommate has just started taking care of a 90 yr old German WW2 veteran. He was drafted at the age of 14 about 7 moths before the end of the war. Apparently his father was captured on the eastern front and was a prisoner of war buy the Soviet Union and spent about 18 yrs as such. I'm hoping that I can meet this man myself in the next few weeks. If I can I'll try and get a video of his stories if he's willing to share with me. I'll share with you if possible
there you og , history is everywhere you know. Thanks
OMG Batterie TODT style Bunker ! Thanks for showing us this :)
Well , for sure a real bunker With real stuff inside you know :) Thanks for watching.
The contrast between this intact gun emplacement & the ones in ruins that you film is very cool........
Thanks for watching.
Your saving of German WW2 HISTORY and the Memories of GERMAN WW2 SOLDIERS is a wonderful good thing to tell the Truth of WW2!
Appreciated James :)
Thank you for sharing this video with us! Its fascinating to see one still intact and how they operated. Indeed the Germans were amazing engineers!
Thanks Lani
Wow that is a really awesome place. I can't wait for my daughter to be old enough to join me in the museum trips. I have so many here in the Ardennes :)
Thanks for making this cool video and of course for sharing it.
Cheers & happy hunting :)
good to hear , you must take here along. Thanks my friend.
Such a amazing video....I makes your other bunker videos even better, to see a complete one and compare it to the abandoned ones. Great stuff!
Thanks Rob.
It's definitely worth watching. Although we are thousands of miles away and can never see with our naked eyes accept through world war II histories from studying books, the story connects to what we've learned. Thanks. It's amazing how the technologies were and who were behind those.
Thanks for watching.
I really like this video and using bunker. It really shows of the way it looked back in the day
Exciting place it is and thanks.
Great video.... A lot of the things you find and places you take us really come together with this video.. Thank you very much for posting. I learned even more history today.
Thanks for watching.
Great video of such a well preserved piece of military history. Brings it all alive. Thank you. 👍🏻
i agree , good to see. Thanks Steve
amazing how it's in such good shape with maintenance compared to the others you've shown completely ravaged by the elements. that diesel electric looks like something you see in U boats.thanks again.
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love your posts and history, feel connected to it somehow,thanks.
Now that was awesome, watched it twice , It was nice to see how one actually looked like fully set up ,.. Thank you for the tour big Thumbs up / like
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Amazing state of the art technology in those days. Nice video! Thankyou for taking us back in time as it was actually set up during the war.
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That calculator, amazing piece of engineering.
i agree , totally awesome mechanics. Thanks for the kind support my friend :)
After the war so much history was destroyed. I really am enjoying this video for the first time I can fully understand the way that a bunker was set up. We must preserve our history
Thank you for that Debra :)
What can i say brilliant great bunker complex great video 👏👍
Another Super High Quality, Very Informative Video! I really Love your work WW2HH!
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Great video. I watched one of your older clips last night, it was of similar design with no canopy over the gun. It is amazing to see all the loading equipment in place. You should post a link to the other video for a a then and now comparison. Awesome content.
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Wonderfull video again, tnx for sharing that visit to the museum!
All my pleasure Raymond and thanks for dropping by again :)
Very nice place! Thanks to share with us!
All my pleasure.
What an amazing place, great to see it in such great condition, thanks for sharing.
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The engineering of the Germans is incredible , so far advanced throughout the world at the time ! Amazing bunker , amazing is the correct word to use going through there showing us this, thank you and stay safe !
Thanks for watching my friend :)
Love your videos. I feel like I take a little vacation when I watch them.Very interesting and informative 👍
how great to read. Thanks
Thank you, thank you. That was awesome. I had no idea that a bunker could be so large and that gun... wow!
So glad you enjoyed it Mary and thanks for taking time to comment and watch
Awesome! It really puts the interior into perspective.
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Thank you for taking us there , looks a great place to visit , keep up the good work 👍
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Another great video. I am going to this museum in about 4 weeks time, this was a great taster.
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Where is it?
Wow! To see a foundation such as you've shown before but this time with a gun! Really amazing.
Great location and glad we could share it with you.
great video its amazing to see whats in an old bunker
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Love it when you show videos like this one! Great stuff!
Glad for that Paul :)
Amazing video, feel like done newly bunker, great talent but on the losing side that's the tragedy.
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Wow just wow .What an amazing location to see such a magnificent bunker in all its glory is just amazing. You knocked it out of the ball park with this video excellent 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
wow , great to read my friend and thanks.
After watching this video I get a better understanding of what was mounted on the walls in the bunkers that have been abandoned and it’s equipment removed.
So true and thanks for being here Anthony.
Awesome,its really cool to see how the bunkers looked like and all the kit,fascinating,as usual top drawer vid,great channel.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.
Great piece of history and telling. When was the bunker restored? In the mid-1970s when I was a serviceman stationed at Buechel and Spanagdelham, most Germans I knew were not well informed or didn't talk about, the war. I was in temporary housing with a man and wife in Ulmen. Heir Hilger was a POW and held in Chicago until repatriated after the war.
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Amazing! Thanks again to you and your little crew!
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I've seen something similar in a museum at the Belgian coast. Perfectly preserved German bunkers that formed a part of the Atlantikwall, very interesting.
ok and thanks.
This is amazing, what you're doing. Very informative, I appreciate this!
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Very interesting. Would like to have seen more of the main gun. Was it possible to go inside? I noticed a ladder leading to a door in the housing of the gun. Wanted to see inside there. Thank you.
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That was amazing to see... makes it easier to understand when you see other incomplete bunkers... thank you 😆
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Oh my Lord, thank you for bring us to this place! So amazing!
Appreciated and more to come .)
Wow! Really enjoyed watching this one!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video I really enjoyed watching it . 👍👍👍
So glad you did Gav and thanks.
Well done. Nice to see what an equipped shore battery would look like.
Yes William , it is a fantastic location. Thanks for the great support my friend.
Scenery is gorgeous. Wow, what an amazing place with well preserved German WW2 artifacts, many still in working condition and all telling a story. I bet little EE had a fun time trying out all the different machinery. What a little cutie, so intrigued with WW2 history just like his Father. I would be like a child in a candy store there. :) The Germans were so advanced and ahead of their time, some of the technology still used today. Even the sharp looking uniforms were in good shape. Thanks you for taking us there HH and EE.
He sure loves places like this and we hope you enjoyed it Laura :) Thanks.
Great video. Nice to share time with family learning about and finding history. There are so many comments, and it could have been missed, but where is this naval gun emplacement museum? Best wishes!
Appreciate you watching and thanks.
That was very cool. Wow, thank you for showing this.
Appreciated Bill and Greetings from us.
such an amazing location,thank you for sharing this with us.
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The Americans built a bunker in a hill outside my home town in Newzealand in ww2. It has miles of tunnels, multi levels, with generators, ventilation, accommodation, etc, for hundreds of personnel. As a young man I knew a guy who lived next to it. He and his brother discovered a ventilation pipe big enough to crawl inside and enter the complex. We explored it for days on end without seeing the whole thing. Nowadays, a small portion is sometimes open to the public. I don't think people really know how big it is further down (Very big).
Thanks for sharing and for watching my friend.
Outstanding video , very good job !
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Amazing location keep up the good work
Thanks, will do!
So glad that there restoring some of these bunkers with artifacts for the future generations to see and appreciate. So many of them without care will be totally gone in another 50years and then it will be to late.
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love your video and the bunkers! keep it up 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Will do and thanks my friend.
Only just found this one History Hunter, excellent video I'm amazed at what was actually inside one of these emplacements thank you for your efforts,if you know of any more I'm sure all your viewers would enjoy it as much as me 👍🇦🇺
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I had to watch this video again. I wonder how many times these weapons were fired? With all that equipment I bet they had drills all the time. Trying to keep everything running properly was a challenge I bet. The German military really had thier acts together to create and operate a Installation like that. Incredible. Thanks again and it looks like EE was having fun with the targeting computer of the day. I can do all that with a compass but it isn't precise as that equipment. I'm sure you have taught EE how to use a compass to find out his location so he doesn't have to rely on a GPS unit. Reading a compass was big in my Boyscout troop. You can't be lost with a co.pass and a good topographic map. Well a wonderful video as always Happy History Hunting my friend. Say hi to EE and BBG for me and my family is thinking of yours. Be safe.
EE is a Boyscout and he loves being out there and working with nature. The targeting computer is truly something else and i i baffles me to see how advanced that thing is even though it is just a mechanical thing. Thanks my friend and be safe out there.
@@WW2HistoryHunter I know what you are saying about the computers. It's good that he is in Boyscouts. Do they go coming once a month? I loved the camping trips and the week long summer camp. Whenever went to the Boyscout camp grounds. We always went some place different every year and each patrol got to plan thier own week long camp and had to find adults to go with them. The kids controlled the troop. It was fun that way. I guess I'm old school because I don't bring a phone. I leave them locked up in the gun safe in my truck. I don't want anyone stealing it when I'm out and about. After I broke down in the mountains and my Boyscout handbook saved my life by showing me the edible plants and three rabbits that gave their lives up for me to live. I was only out there for 3 nights and could have lived without killing them but it was part of the whole survival thing.
Great video absolutely love your stuff and I'm seriously jealous of what you get to see and experience in regards to World War 2 history and look forward to every video keep up the great work. P.S. you couldn't use the word amazing enough especially with this location
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Thank you so very much for what you do
I know I will never be able to see these sites for myself
Life is so short and I am running out of time to see all the amazing things
Thank you my old friend, you do not know me but you bring a lot of joy to my hart
I will most certainly contribute to your account
So greatful for that Peter and thanks from us.
I really enjoyed this video, very awesome!! Thank's for sharing!!
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The two big cylinders look like pressure tanks for the drinking water system. I also saw some pumps there,but they might be for pumping flood water out of the room.VERY cool video-where is this located? Being restored,I'm thinking they'd offer tours and take donations.
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very interesting ,great video! Thank you for sharing.
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Amazing video 👍
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Hi HH, amazing place and too think if you connected it all back up it’ll probably still work especially that calculator
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All my pleasure my friend and thanks.
A museum inside a bunker, good use for it. Another interesting video.
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I believe the long tubes that had sights in the middle of the tubes which I believe there were approximately three of them all of different sizes were used to look up at planes flying up high and it determined their altitude. I have seen them before in other video's. The concrete needs to be repaired or it will crumble to the ground.
ok and thanks.
love your videos man history's everywhere
it sure is Kevin
Not entirely sure, but that engine being used for the generator looks a lot like the power plants used in the u-boats of the day. The engine design apparently originate from ww1, and are started on compressed air supplied by a small compressor. The engine once started drives a larger compressor that supplies compressed air for the fuel injection. If you ever watch Das Boot, the scene where they start up the engines again, you see the engineer push forward a lever that opens the starting air valve, and you hear the hiss of the air starting to crank the engine. Not many films get small touches like that correct.
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I believe that "calculator" shown at the beginning of this video is what was called in English a gun director , which was a mechanical calculator used to aim a large gun at a target. The Krupp 88 canons came with gun directors. When my Father was 15 in 1940 here in California he felt strongly that it was only a matter of time before the US would end up fighting in WW 2 and felt it was his duty to be prepared when the US got into the war. As a child my Father knew he wanted to become an engineer and was very good at math. So at 15 he bought his first slide rule, and taught himself calculus as well as artillery ballistics. By 16 my Father felt ready to design his first engineering project: a gun director. Shortly after the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor the US Army set up an anti-aircraft battery at a school near where my Father lived. What interested him was he saw a gun director for the first time which looked very much like the one my Father was designing. He also noticed that the gun battery had a great deal of radio equipment, much more than would be needed for communications . Right then and there my Father thought they must be using radio waves to measure the range of an airplane approaching the gun's position. Later he found out it was called radar and was a "big" secret.
Just after December, 7th 1941 my Father signed up to join the US Navy. He had to get his Parent's permission to do so and he had to wait until after his birthday at the end of February when he turned 17 to start basic training. By late fall of 1942 he had finished his training in Fire Control which in the US Navy which meant aiming and firing the large caliber guns on a ship. My Father was put on a troop train heading for the big Naval base on the East Coast at Norfolk, Virginia. He was assigned to one of the then newest destroyers going into service no more the 2 years before the US entered the War. What he became most excited about was the ship's Mark 1 Fire Control COMPUTER #19. This was an analog, mechanical computer unlike modern programmable digital computers. But all the 5 inch (127 millimeter ) guns and the torpedo tubes could be controlled from the Fire Control Computer on all destroyers built after 1941 for the US Navy.
The main point of the fire control computer is it would automate control of the aiming of the 5 inch guns which where the prime anti aircraft guns on US Navy destroyers and the other larger warships in the US Navy. It is very hard to shot down a plane going almost 300 miles per hour taking evasive action from a small ship moving at speeds over 30 knots and being pushed around by ocean waves. Using input from the Fire Control radar, gyros in the computer, input on things like wind speeds , currents and from optical rangefinders, the computer was continuously moving the ship's 5 inch guns to track its target up until the guns fired. On a US WW 2 5 inch Naval gun crews were expected to fire 22 rounds a minute at rapid fire, that's firing a new round in less than 3 seconds .
wow , great sharing and thanks for taking time to do that and for watching.
Great to see inside of the bunker
Like stepping back in time. Amazing.👍👍👍
It kind of is yes. Thanks
Outstanding!! Gives total perspective when seeing your other videos. Obviously it's a museum it would have been nice for you to tell us where you saw this so that when we visit Europe we could also see it for ourselves.
You speak of a friend who is rebuilding a bunker is this the one that you speak about??
Well , locations are rarely given Sir. Thanks for taking time to comment and watch.