BATTERIE TODT -- GERMAN BUNKER Series -- Episode 1
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- This is the gun casemate No.4 at the German gun Battery TODT Episode 1 what we find will open your eyes folks.
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Don't miss the Todt Museum, it is absolutely brilliant - probably the best museum I've been to in France, it has so many artifacts you can spend days there!
if it was EVER OPEN hahaha
can you imagine how fkn loud that gun was in there the echo chamber dam !!! great freekin video thanks for translating the writing unreal bro you did a great job cant wait for the rest !!!!
Great Video Folks, the Graffiti reading SOS means "Siegen oder sterben" wich translates to "Victory or dying". Such Wall paintings were also done in Civil Shelters, even if they were not that direct in their Meanings. Greetings from Germany and keep the good work up
That casemate is absolutely awesome. They always remind me of art deco cinemas. I hate graffiti with a passion and to ruin history so is mindless vandalism.
Superb folks.
Love watching Chris land on his arsenal 😄
Nice one, gents. Nice translations of the graffiti, too. Cheers for that!
+brianartillery glad you enjoyed folk :)
They certainly thought big. Would love to see these giant constructions in the flesh one day. Amazing.
+Wing Commander Buggles it’s an eye opener
I watch your videos every Friday I am so amazed on all of your great journeys through these great historical sites that you explore I love it thanks for keeping the history alive IKS Exploration!!! P.S I Hate Graffiti too!!!!
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I went in that one early '70's. No grafitti, I hope to find the photo's I took of everything one day. There was also a list on the wall of firing dates and targets.
Great video chaps.
I called in to the Todt museum last year at the end of a road trip on way to the channel tunnel and it was excellent although I didn't realise at the time that the other casemates were abandoned out in the woods. That last bunker you went in to escape from the rain seems to have some original German graffiti around the doorway that you might have missed.
With that echo, imagine what firing one would sound like. Like the foundations of the world were shaking, i bet.
if they were anything like western guns emplacements the gun sat separate on its own foundations within the bunker and was hydraulically mounted t(like an engine mount) to absorb the shock. but yeah the noise would of be insanity.
nice video chaps, great locations
great stuff guys very enjoyable, cant wait till next week.
That plase was huge cant wait for the rest of the series great work guys
+Tom Tinker cheers folk :)
Such a huge piece of engineering, they would have to have built it fairly quickly I would imagine.
great videos just found the channel awesome
glad you enjoy folk
old 95 dpm pattern on chris, used to wear that as the greens uniform when i was in the Air Training Corps
Respect ! From Ungarn!
Loving these videos,that was a massive gun battery,good to find old war places.
i like how it all gos back to the past
Hello chaps excellent stuff I do enjoy watching these French trips. These bunkers seem to have a different vibe. Hope you all have a good Christmas
Wow really injoy in this one great video
+mark palmer glad you liked it folk :)
They sure did like their concrete. Hope they had a silencer for that gun, if you were near that when it was fired the shock wave would cause internal injuries, the shape of that structure would act like an amplifier.
Great video on history mates looking forward to the next video. Thanks
Awesome work like always!
Great Job - really enjoyed the video
+quasarhi glad you enjoyed it folk :)
13:29 They being up there really shows how big it is. & Domineering.
Awesome video !! Thanks !!!
Glad you enjoyed folk :)
This place should be restored and preserved would be a shame to let it rot away. This is history it needs saving.
( WC ) that you can see on the walls are quotes from Winnston Churchill
I've seen similar (but smaller) US gun batteries on the California Coast.
Looking at the configuration of them I wonder if someone thought of repurposing one as an outdoor ampitheater?
great work guys ...the sheer size is astounding
cool bunker !
Iain l have got some photos from 1984 of these that my dad took when we went on holiday a French person from the campsite took us... They had no graffiti then this was probably because the French were doing national service.. I will try to dig them out! we could not remember where the bunker was how strange to see you there lol
Wow sounds interesting please see our Facebook group would be great to see your photos :) many thanks
Please do, it would be a great addition. We're losing so much history to uneducated teenagers with nothing better to do but swing aerosol cans.
I am blown away by the amount of concrete that went into building a place like that let alone designing actually building it.
A picture of what it looked like. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todt_Battery#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1986-104-10A,_Atlantikwall,_Batterie_%22Todt%22.jpg
Imagine the sound as the gun was fired.
That would have been so loud
i like the bunkers the best its allot of history there
Marvelous, folk. :)
+TheStwat thanks folk :)
Great Video! Iam hating graffities! Greetings from Germany!
+Klaus Klausen glad you enjoyed folk :)
One for us graffiti lovers. 'Onward to England' hey? Never made it chaps! 😂
Great piece of engineering they all are. Great sense of homour you all have. So historic all the places. So Battery Todt would have been use to fire on the British, Canadians and Americans at the start of D-Day June 6th 1944? Didnt realise those places were that big. Poor old chris landing on the ground.
+Peter Wray Todt Batterie fired on Dover town and other bits :) crazy massive locations these :) chris landed safely lol
IKS Exploration Wow what history.
Brilliant stuff. The pattern on the floor where there were tiles are most likely from old asbestos tiles that have been removed.
+Matt Perrin interesting thanks for sharing :) glad you enjoyed
Look forward to the next instalment :)
We visited one of those same large cross channel gun emplacements in about 1965. I remember a large pile of rusting hand grenades on the central plinth where the gun was situated. At the end of the war two German soldiers were tasked with clearing the landmines from the area and they piled them up in one of those large block houses. Unfortunately one of the mines detonated and the whole lot went up. The head of one of the Germans was found on Cap Gris Nez lighthouse, we were told by the local residents. That is why one of the large block houses there is blown up. It`s about 55 years now since I was last there. At the time German ordnance was still littered about.
Pretty cool guys!Wish I was there with..
i love your videos :) best regards from a german urbexer :)
Licht is light.
The first painting on the left when entering the bunker (the Nazi flag with the 2 crosses on each side) is not original. It was added after the war for the shooting of a film.
Wow cool man! I really wanna go to battery todt too!
Is amazing place to see :) lots more to come :)
wow !!
Wot, no yellow trainers?
thought gegen meant either against or smash
Awesome vid guys.
+charles robbins cheers folk
Was there alone and didn’t dare to go in. I feel bad.
17:27 fail army moment
might be the context but ..."gegen Engeland" actually means "against england" . might be i'm mistaking in translating but that's atleast what i learned in school :D
It think it can mean both. In modern German "gegen etwas" almost always is "against something", but in literature and older German it can also mean a movement towards something.
@4:15 gegen means against..
hahahhahaha that definetly was an angry farmer , i can picture his profanities as hes smashing those nails in hahahah
Hey brother was the barrel of the guns 15feet? You said inches?
Jay Marsh when he says 15 inch gun he means it fired a 15 inch diameter shell.
15 Inch
" Thank's, I Understand I Have One Too. "
4:22 “gegen England” means against England
Folks, you need to come to the Channel Islands, to view some of the best German fortifications!!!!!
+Kevin Shales yeah we still have that on our plans :)
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Keith Johnson Ian don't drive his beard get caught in the steering wheel ! Health and safety ! Lol 😉
It’s true lol
I wonder if you got a french local to talk with the farmers near there if they would share some hidden details with you. Im sure they would did stuff up more often then not working the fields there. Very sad that ingrate idiots would damage history like that. hope that guy in the comments finds the photos of the original art.
Fantastic video! That graffiti was so interesting, shame it's been vandalised but at least it's still there
No true Todt Battery video is complete without the pissing rain.
Deep digger Dan has video of metal detecting around these emplacements
aka the travel troll ;-)
Bloody shame about the original German graffiti. I don't condone the actions of the Nazis but it's still a part of military/war history that's been primarily lost to idiots. Nice vid gents!
Amazing to see such a bunker that’s over 70 years, but it’s so sad and stupid that people have to graffiti these places 😢😢
Amazing i vivisted in 2019 they need to do something about idiots graffiting because its history evil or not we need to learn from it
"Gegen Engeland" - from the popular WW1 German Patriotic song "Wir fahren gegen Engeland"
ruclips.net/video/xALz_YxKTPI/видео.html
Also the title of a German Navy newspaper, but often circulated amongst those stationed in Brittany and Normandy.
Great Vid, many thanks..!
also all these original graffitis would be listed as "motivational fail" nowadays on the interwebs haha
Brilliant video guys. These graffiti wankers are like dogs pissing on everything marking their territory. Place is mammoth.
I never realised the Germans wrote things like that on their walls in their bunkers. Glad you showed it before it got covered up with more graffiti. j
I think Gegen England means Victory over England. Towards England would be Nach England.
"The future right now seems grey and shrouded."
"Opfer" is also victim. (The writing was too faint to catch the whole phrase. )
The problem with translating German is, words it do not directly translate across. German words often have very nuanced meanings and depends on the whole context of the phrase or sentence, not just a single word, so it easy to mistranslate. It is best have someone fluent in the language to translate otherwise you miss the meaning of the phrase or slogan. As you can see by misinterpreting one word, you can change the entire meaning of the propaganda graffiti ; )
you're right. i think it's part of the song "wir fahren gegen engeland" ruclips.net/video/xALz_YxKTPI/видео.html
Sorry most are fake used in the making of Opperation Fortitude
Too bad that every wall is smeared with graffiti
+Willi seiner yeah so sad folk :(
Lmao smoke stack
Algum Br por aqui Kkkk????
merry Christmas and happy new year:)
LICHT/=LIGHT IN GERMAN
interesting enough the english word light came from.... you guessed it licht.
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OMG...again...those graffiti destroy everything (not only this piece of history...)... ;-(
Guys...avoid vandalized WW2 relics... ;-(
Good video shame its all graffiti all over it , so France not much diff to UK on that regard 🍻
Even to this day there is a lot of anger and hatred regarding what the nazis did, I dont condone it dun I can understand why some people would want to destroy nazi symbols, monuments and writings.
There is also the point of preserving history and learning from it, most of these text and symbols have already been recorded and a lot of personal memorabilia has been collected in museums to be kept safe for generations to view and study
Ian, you really need to get off your high horse regarding graffiti. Don't forget, today's graffiti is tomorrows history.
But it's not, it's damaging and destroying history. Spraying random shit over a site which has stood the test of time is incredibly disrespectful. If they didn't do that graffiti on historical sites then people would be fine with it.
I wouldn't defend this graffiti especially when a lot of it is literally the word "fuck". Done by children who should know better.
Stuart Thornton
No it’s not, not really.