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Bunkers, Fortifications and Megastructures
Великобритания
Добавлен 21 ноя 2018
This channel is dedicated to bunkers, fortifications and megastructures of Great Britain and Europe, in World War One and World War Two time frame. I will try and explain to you what i am looking at, and a description, and some history behind the place. i will also visit museums and events. Thanks for watching.
PS. I am not an historian, or expert. I`m just an enthusiast, who has a passion for our past history, during this time frame.
PS. I am not an historian, or expert. I`m just an enthusiast, who has a passion for our past history, during this time frame.
Politz Synthetic Oil Plant. Poland.
Constructed in 1937 in what was still Germany, this synthetic fuel manufacturing plant used high pressured hydrogenation processes to convert powdered lignite coal into liquid fuels. This included high-grade gasoline and aviation fuel. The process was called the Bergius process, named after its inventor and Nobel prize winner, Freidrich Bergius. The plant was jointly owned by IG Farben, Rhenania-Ossag, and a German subsidiary of Standard Oil.
Throughout World War II, the plant also acted as a subcamp for the Stutthof, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps, whose prisoners made up a majority of the plant’s labour force. Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies establis...
Throughout World War II, the plant also acted as a subcamp for the Stutthof, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps, whose prisoners made up a majority of the plant’s labour force. Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies establis...
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Politz synthetic oil plant subterranean urbex
Просмотров 107Месяц назад
I`ve not long been back from my travels around Poland looking at the remanence of the relics from world war two. One of my explores what what is left of the Politz synthetic oil plant that turned coal into fuel. Whilst i was there i came across three young local polish lads who asked me if i would like to accompany them on a sub exploration of the power plant. So curiosity told me to go with th...
Overloon Millitracks event
Просмотров 6165 месяцев назад
The Militracks event at Overloon Museum in the Netherlands is rapidly approaching. This is a video of what to expect if you decide to go and visit. The show is usually on in May, but you can go and visit the museum at anytime. Militracks is all about German WW2 vehicles which you can book a ride on most of them. There are a number of vehicles in this video, but I've not named them in case I get...
Lager koralle U boat command centre in a forest movie
Просмотров 2976 месяцев назад
Lager Koralle (also: camp Coral ) was the code name of a military facility north of Bernau near Berlin , in which the command centre of the High Command of the Navy (OKM) (Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine ) was located between 1943 and 1945 . In this video I go and explore what remains of this command centre and why it was situated in this area, which is no where near the sea !!. Thanks for watchi...
Rechlin `White` houses. Luftwaffe testing site. movie
Просмотров 5608 месяцев назад
The origins of the Weiße ( white )Häuser Rechlin Hidden in a thick overgrowth and a fast growing forest in the northeast of Germany lies one of the last remnants of what Hitlers world capital Germania could have looked like. Hitlers secret city - known as the Weiße Häuser Rechlin - the White Houses, offer a disturbing glimpse into what could have been. To the north of Berlin lie the remnants of...
Maybach 1 and the Zepplin Bunker, Zossen movie
Просмотров 3329 месяцев назад
Following on from the Winkelturm air raid shelter, I visit the near by Maybach I and Zepplin bunker systems, which were a series of above and underground bunkers built 20 kilometres south of Berlin in Wünsdorf near Zossen, Brandenburg, to house the High Command of the Army (in Maybach I) and the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces (in Maybach II) during the Second World War. Along with the mili...
Winkelturm Zossen Germany movie
Просмотров 1709 месяцев назад
This is the first movie that I've put out for a long time, and as you can see why from the intro. My son lee died near the end of may 2023, just as i was about to go into Poland. I ended up travelling 1000 miles back to home just to be by his side before he passed away. Lee was only 42 years old...Two months later my dad passed away . So you can see that I and my family have not had a good year...
Abandoned Rangsdorf Airport movie
Просмотров 568Год назад
Rangsdorf airfield is a former airfield in the municipality of Rangsdorf in the Brandenburg district of Teltow-Fläming. The airfield and buildings of which are now largely listed buildings . It was created in 1935-1936 as a water and land airport for civilian air sports ( Reichssportflughafen ), to which a flight school and the premises of Bücker Flugzeugbau ( aircraft construction) were attach...
SS Bakery. klinkerwerks and Funk Bunker , Sachsenhausen.
Просмотров 204Год назад
Moving away from the SS barracks and Bathhouse, I travel the short distance to have a look at what is left of the SS bakery, Brickworks and an odd naming communications Bunker call Karo Ass. Nothing much left of any of these buildings, so I decided to link what footage that I took into one movie. It gives you an insite of what went on here in the 1930/40s. Thanks for watching !! #worldwartwo #l...
SS Bath House and Barracks. Sachsenhausen.
Просмотров 271Год назад
I called into Sachsenhausen concentration camp to pay my respects to all those people who were imprisoned here, and who lost their lives at the hands of there captors. In my research on the camp, i came across some abandoned buildings just outside of the camp than once belonged to the camp guards known as the SS ( Schutzstaffel ) . The SS had a number of buildings that they occupied/used/ built...
Airfield Oranienburg Heinkel Factory movie
Просмотров 828Год назад
Air Base Oranienburg (german: Flugplatz Oranienburg,) was built between 1936 and 1939 west of Oranienburg and north of Berlin in Brandenburg Germany. Founder of the airfield was Ernst Heinkel, who intended to start a new aircraft factory at the location. Originally the aircraft factory was intended only for serial construction of the new He111 airliner for German airline Lufthansa. The Luftwaff...
V1 ramp Asberg Germany movie
Просмотров 226Год назад
Just outside the town of Remagen on the Rhine in Germany, which was made famous in the world war two film ` Bridge at Remagen` in an Heavily wooded area lies the remains of a V1 ramp concrete stantions. Now then , most of us know that the V1`s where mainly aimed at England, however when the allies captured the port of Antwerp on the 4 September. 1944 and the V sites where overrun after the D Da...
West Wall aka the Seigfrieg Line Part 2 of 2 movie
Просмотров 414Год назад
The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall, was a German defensive line built during the 1930s (started 1936) opposite the French Maginot Line. It stretched more than 630 km (390 mi); from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of Nazi Germany, to the town of Weil am Rhein on the border with Switzerland - and featured more than 18,000 bunkers, tunnels and ta...
West Wall aka the Seigfrieg Line Part 1 of 2 movie
Просмотров 533Год назад
The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall, was a German defensive line built during the 1930s (started 1936) opposite the French Maginot Line. It stretched more than 630 km (390 mi); from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of Nazi Germany, to the town of Weil am Rhein on the border with Switzerland - and featured more than 18,000 bunkers, tunnels and ta...
Fort De Loncin Belgium
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Fort de Loncin is one of twelve forts built around Liège, Belgium, in the late 19th century. The overall Fortified Position of Liège was a constituent part of the country's National Redoubt. Fort de Loncin was constructed between 1881 and 1884 according to the plans of General Henri Alexis Brialmont. Contrasting with the French forts built in the same era by Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières, th...
Fort Eben Emael Inside ( part two of two )
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Fort Eben Emael Inside ( part two of two )
Fort Eben Emael Outside ( part one of two )
Просмотров 5932 года назад
Fort Eben Emael Outside ( part one of two )
an unusual pillbox on the east coast movie
Просмотров 3252 года назад
an unusual pillbox on the east coast movie
Warden point battery Isle of Sheppey UK
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Warden point battery Isle of Sheppey UK
Centre Bastion Martello Battery Sheerness Isle of Sheppey movie
Просмотров 4482 года назад
Centre Bastion Martello Battery Sheerness Isle of Sheppey movie
Mine control tower Burnham on Crouch movie
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Mine control tower Burnham on Crouch movie
Coalhouse Battery inc Radar Tower movie
Просмотров 1782 года назад
Coalhouse Battery inc Radar Tower movie
MKB 4 201 Heerenduin Netherlands movie
Просмотров 3413 года назад
MKB 4 201 Heerenduin Netherlands movie
The interesting thing is that Operation Chariot is hardly known (even in St. Nazaire). There is a momorial but apart from that and the canon on the roof of the covered lock there is hardly or little mention of the greatest raid of them all....
@koningbolo4700 . Ive been to the Memorial. There is a good documentry about Op Chariot narrated by Jeremy clarkson. Have you seen it. ?
16:27 I believe the canon of the Campbell Town was found in the open air lock to the left when it was drained for repairs in (I believe) the 1990's... Imagine the power of the explosives in the bow of the Campbell Town blowing off a gun and launching it over 60 meters away...
@koningbolo4700 the power was enough to destroy the lock gates completely, so that Tirpitz or Bismarck would never use them
I have been to Saint Nazaire (the location of the Normandy dock and of operation Chariot - the Greatest Raid of them All) If you go into the U boat pens (which are like most of them in some civilian use nowadays) you really appreciate the build quality, the enormous size and generally how awesome these pens are... the Germans did a wonderful job on the construction... The French, if they wanted to get rid of them, can not budge them or even chip them...
@@koningbolo4700 that's true, an amazing feature of engineering indeed. Thanks for watching and commenting
I have been to La Coupole a few times. My last visit was in September 2024. I will visit again when next in the area as it is a very interesting place indeed. When you walk through the tunnel system, you can only imagine what it was like for those poor souls who were enslaved to labour there. May we never forget and may it never happen again.
@terrymoore8363 hi Terry. Virtually everything that we visit that was built by the nazi regime was through slave labour. I carry little crosses with me and place them. It's my way of saying that that I've not forgotten them. Thankyou for watching and commenting
It's not hard to get the pronounciation right. You live in Europe for christs ake.
@exoticgardensalad8095 I'm english we ain't in europe anymore. I tried saying words in Polish with the help of google translate. I then tried it on some Polish lads. They told me because I haven't got the accent then it will never sound the same. Anyway get some content in your own page if you're brave enough. Troll
Great video. Informative, and I liked the old footage that you included. (Where on earth did you get those from?) I was born in Weymouth, many moons ago, and remember only one caisson which was nicknamed 'Crystal'. I could be wrong, so don't quote me.
hi billy read an article that upto 92% of aviation and petrol was synthetic, can you imagine if they had reserves, Think cost was an issue though especially after Op Barbarossa
Hello sir, it's nice you see you out and about again.
@riseandshinejp thankyou. Yes it's nice to get back put. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Nice video 👍 The type 21 seems to be a much more capable weapon so good that it was not available during the battle of the Atlantic.
@@An.Individual thankfully not. You can walk through a type 21 submarine in bremerhaven Germany. It's called the Wilhelm Bauer. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Nice video 👍
@An.Individual thanks . Glad you enjoyed it. 😊
8:03 that is the map I needed 👍
@@An.Individual I'm glad to be of some assistance ☺️
Was Das Boot filmed here ?
@strychnyne3530 I don't think so. I'm sure it was filmed at la rochelle, but you can't get into the place as it's used by private companies. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊
Hello, Would you mind telling me where you parked to walk to the ruins? I'm making my way there soon and unsure whether I can park up the forest track from Granzow or have to make it on foot from the south or east side of the woods. I appreciate there are many ways in, just seeing if you would recommend the route you took. Many thanks
@phillfisher1964 hi phil. Here are the co ords 53.3272410, 12.8595148 It was a grass verge near Qualzow. What3word is where the buildings are ///premixed.embroidery.clockwise . Hopefully your phone should find the location even without the internet.( yes gps) good luck with your explore.. put plenty mossie cream on .. Billy 😁
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Thanks very much, Really helpful.
@phillfisher1964 have a good explore. There are other things to find but it's so overgrown you may have difficulty finding them as I did. I gave up in the end
As a former US Navy nuclear submariner myself I am fascinated by videos such as this. Great thanks. I hope to pay a visit someday soon and do a little exploring of my own. I also recommend the movie, "Das Boot", for anyone who wants to see this come alive.
Yes, Das boot is an excellent film to watch . I would recommend watching it in its original German with English subtitles. Thanks for watching and commenting
My friend and I are riding a motorcycle and visited this bunker on 21/08 a week ago, I had already visited this maybe twenty-five years ago and inside that bunker you go into larger spaces and nothing was updated then !
@ronnypauwels2963 I've visited a number of sites like this over europe over the years and the only one that I have noticed that has changed vastly was the wolfs lair in Poland. It is well worth visiting . It's extremely informative, much better than when I visited it in 2016 😊. . La coupole is worth a visit aswell. Thanks for watching and commenting.
There are many good books at 5:18 !
Hi john. Yes lots of interesting books indeed, depending on what your looking for. I bought a book on the lindermann batterie that I could not get over here in the UK. The books can be of any one language or mixed languages. 😊
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hudders not in baedeker
two engineering factories in hudds were involved in tanks partocularly david browns who made merrit brown gear steering boxes
the camp is 3/4 mile down towards honley
not windowa
120mm
not kirkburton
Religion is the cancer of the intellect of our planet! Best of luck!
Interesting and informative video. Thank you. BUT.................. Hopefully in the last four years since his was made you have obtained some very good WIND PROTECTORS for your microphones. It is very disconcerting and impossible to understand you when you are outside in the wind.
@@arniestuboud yes, the wind was a bit strong on that day. Hopefully the sound is better on other videos. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Don't rely on the wind to cooperate. It never will. Get a "wind sock" for your microphone out of respect for all of us - and your own viewing.
@@arniestuboudCamera technology has moved on since this video. Im using a camera now that i can plug in a wireless mic when i need it. 😁
Writing a novella that takes place at Fort de Loncin. Your video was very helpful and informative. Thanks so much!
@@SteelyBud @JobberBud morning Bud. Im glad that the video was of some use to you. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
4;20 "Whoever is cheeky must suffer. Now you must endure what you have brought upon yourself." Apparently comparing Churchill to a sassy child who will get his in the end.
Hi zomby woof. Thanks for correcting my google translate, and thanks for watching and commenting 😊
it was nice to meet you today billy!
Is this you Damian ?
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 no its me szymon ☺️
@@godszymek5531 ok. Thanks szymon. I was great meeting all three of you yesterday. I will put pictures of all of us on my facebook page later on. Ill will tag you in them 😁
Truly interesting, I love old forts and hope to visit Douaumont and Vaux some day.
Yes, they are full of history. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Anyplace with a giant map is worth visiting!
Hi Jeff. And that's one BIG map indeed 😁. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊
I never knew they had a concrete turret bunker. Very interesting.
I think that its one if a kind. Its interesting though. Thanks for watching and comnenting 😊
Nice, Overloon was a big battlefield indeed. Loved that Militaria market sir!
Hi Paul. Its an interesting event. Plenty of stuff to purchase, thats if you are interested in that type of memorabilia. You can get both Axis and Allied stuff
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Iam looking for a WW2 British cap badge (brass). Do they have it overthere?!
Hi paul. I have no idea. Sorry
Thanks Billy, I always wonder about these collectors - what on earth do you do with a nazi flag ???
Hi Fan. The only people that i know who collect memorabilia like that are usually re- enactors or lemmy ( motorhead) lol. Stuff like that doesn't interest me. I mainly collect reference books to get more info on sites that i visit. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Do you have "A bridge too far"?
@@paulwee1924dus hi paul. I have filmed on the ludendorf bridge but not put anything together yet. Im travelling in germany and then poland now. Ill sort that footage that i have when i get home in August 😊
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Being a Canadian soldier we liberated your country and don't mention Canada 😢
Im english 😁
does he sound dutch to you ?
@@fanroche8573 i wasnt sure who that statement was aimed at. My intro came from the overloon web page, and it didnt mention anything to do with the Canadians. Maybe he was directing it at the dutch himself. I wont know until he comments again 😊
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Hi that is fair but it seemed personal. Ultimately Canada would fall under the allies. There are too many nations for you to identify in a short piece - and I'm a very patriotic Scot :)
tnx for making this video!!! cool to see so much is still intact
There is a lot to see here. More than i actually filmed. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Windy out there on the bay. It was very interesting to see the scale of the construction. I never though to much about repairing or upgrading uboats before.
Yes, the pens are massive indeed, and worth a visit. If i could redo the filming now, then ive since got mics that would cut out the wind. 😁. Thanks for watching and commenting
Another great video billy, keep em coming, looking forward to ur new adventure
Thanks lee. Should have a few more coming out before i go back into europe in may. Then an whole new set of adventures awaits 😁
Keeping you and your son in prayers today. Cheers.
Thankyou. You are so kind ❤
Thanks Billy, My dad was on the atlantic crossings, remember finding a diary where he saw a pal get killed after they were hit by a u boat.
Hi Fan. That must have been heart rendering For your dad Mate. Longest running campaign throughout the war, and so many lives lost to keep us from starving😢
Interesting video that we are watching from the FdU West of Pignerolle (France) ;)
Glad that you liked it ..Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
By the way . I Have marked FdU West of Pignerolle for a visit, but not this year. I am going to explore Poland. That place looks very interesting indeed.
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 Be welcome. "L'Association du Mémorial des bunkers de Pignerolle" will be pleased to do you a special tour.
@@johnonlinux2244 that would be fantastic 😊
Another great video, thanks!
Your welcome. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
Great video
Hi Joa.thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching ! 😊
Hi Billy, just been going through some of your video, and all are excellent. Look forward to meeting up when I'm back in the UK. So sad to see your Lee and Dad being mentioned, i also miss them very much, as they were both part of my life. Come to see me in Singapore, as i live so close to many of the battle fields here, Dairy Farm is only a short walk, and was a major battle ground against the Japanese. Look up Bukit Timah, Dairy Farm, and you will see what i mean. See you in the summer.
Hi vaughan. We are both fans of war history and ive got quite a lot of this history on this channel. Im away from 22nd may until near the end of july. Hopefully your still in the UK when i get home. AND we are coming to your house in Bali when its finished, so hurry up 🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️
Wartet mal noch 3 Jahre, dann ist die Halle nicht mehr so hoch und die geschichte weck!
Ja, ich verstehe, was du meinst. Das Dach ist in einem schlechten Zustand. Vielen Dank fürs Zuschauen und Kommentieren!
Interesting video, thank you for sharing this. The 380 mm Reinmetal weapon you described sounds like what they mounted on the Sturmtiger. It was an infrantry support vehicle designed to level buildings.
@@bunkersfortificationsandme7688 I am awaiting the video on Reinmetal. They produced many cutting edge weapons.
@@joelex7966 Hi Joe. I accidently posted the reply to you before i finished it, so i will start again. I did a bit more research on Rheinmetall after i posted the video. One of the weapons that they did build was the MG42, but the company got bogged down by nazi bureaucracy. And it does appear that German workers appeared to be `kind` to the slave workers ( testimonies in the attached clip ) i should be going into Poland this year, and I'm sure that one area that I'm going to, is where they tested the Rheinbot missile. thsnks for watching and commenting 🙂 www.rheinmetall.com/en/company/history/125-years-rheinmetall/years-1936-1945
Great shots! lie of official history is obvious!
Thanks for watching and commenting 😊
Most informative. Thank you very much.
Morning Jamie. Thanks for your comment. I'm glad that you liked it. Billy 😊
very informative and enjoyable, thank you.
Hi TB . Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
love this
Thanks Fan. Glad that you liked it. And thanks for watching and commenting 😊