The "effort" was mostly slave labour, the majority of the materials stolen from France ( or any occupied country)..it cost the German military next to nothing
I grew up in Germany during the 50’s and 60’s. Locally we had a bunker that was destroyed by filling it with water then putting an explosive inside. There was no giant gun but there were remnants of a radio, lots of bullets and a crushed narrow gauge rail car where two soldiers would sit facing one another. I heard that there was an underground hospital nearby but we never found any evidence of it. I used to take the bullets home and remove the slug and pour out the gunpowder and set it on fire. At school we used to have ammunition awareness week where they used to bring in defused bombs and ammunition to discourage us from touching them if we found anything.
Do tej pory w Polsce często odkrywane są niewybuchy. Sam złapałem jednen na magnes neodymowy . Szukam z wykrywaczem i znajduje masę łusek , amunicji do mausera. Zgłaszam często na policję, żeby nie zrobiły krzywdy nikomu .
@@maxroffel2304 just look at all the signs in the video. listen and watch closely and you will fnd out. I just did. 3 hints... 0:22 , 3:38 and 2:52 was all I needed.
There are a few museums. There are so many that they can’t save them all. I just uploaded another Maginot bunker in a better shape and different features & guns🤗
I can't get to these places anymore ,so thank you for these films and showing me things I will not get to see for myself I have done a lot of exploring over the years and your adventures bring back so many memories and lets me come with you even if it is in a small way .This is wonderful stuff ,Thank you .
A great explore of a fascinating bunker. Your explores with Eelco are some of my favourites on your channel. Really interesting (and funny) comments between you both. Thanks.
That was an epic explore with so much detail and still working systems and a great talk as you proceeded along the many corridors thanks Bob for the insight as I will never ba able to explore the site myself.
Really cool...I have seen so many old films of inside the maginot line structures but this is an incredible view of what its like today.Really amazing after over 80 years..
I've just realized how much my years of working as a Home Inspector has messed with my mind, because I saw that entrance that you used to squeeze into the bunker and immediately thought "yeah, that appears serviceable".
Seats no sitting down on the job lots off moving needed they are indeed for empty that can be reused anywhere they can save on making using more resources all so don't won't emptys rolling around the floor
Who is paying for that maintenance, you? You can't preserve everything and personally I wouldn't spent any money, whether that's tax money or mine, to maintain useless bunkers while there are roads, bridges and buildings that we use every day in need of repair. I mean, the Marginot Line is HUGE, you can't possible preserve all of those bunkers.
I dont think the whole corridor was on fire, the smoke is only high up on the walls and roof, they made piles of copper and burned it in the tunnels to get the plastic of, and the smoke has no way to go fast, thats why the roof and some of the walls is black all the way.
Thanks ! you can easily spend a day in there! I just uploaded another bunker of the same line, but than with very different features (guns and mortars) and a very intact generating room!
I’m so happy for all the new videos, Bob!! Good to see you and Eelco together again. Whenever I see a notification for a new video from you I immediately watch it. Thank you 🙏
Man. The engineering even back then. Think about how long it took to dig that hole and the equipment? Impressive. Any idea how long it took to build something like this?
Absolutely amazing find Bob! The condition of the guns is impressive. Is this the bunker that burned in the early 2000's? I heard that it's quite hard to breathe still but that was years ago. Planning to go there myself next year, it's quite close to where I live. You're making by far the best urban exploration content and this one is no exception - keep the videos coming!
Well, it's not that of an amazing find. Within the WWII historians community it is a pretty well known bunker.. a not so well kept secret, so to speak. 😊 I have been there, but at the time was not properly equipped to venture inside. So nice to see some well-filmed footage !
C'est l'ouvrage du Métrich qui a été pillé par les voleurs de cuivre. Après, une association qui sauvegarde un autre ouvrage Maginot est venue récupérer quelques pièces d'artillerie et divers matériels. L'armée a essayé de boucher les entrées par des levées de terre pour éviter de s'aventurer à l'intérieur car il est dangereux.
This one is pretty known.. (although most people miss the guns. )probably the reason I did not go there for the channel earlier. But I found out it actually doesn’t matter how well known a place is😊 At least I don’t get in big trouble for exposing “ secret bunkers” this time😳😳
@@randomdude8202 i mean these places are in france not ukraine which is a nuclear power. The only countries strong enough to invade france are also nuclear powers. What use would they be in a nuclear war?
People forget to look up! There is an overhead track system that runs the length of the bunker, allowing the supplies and ammunition to easily be brought into the bunker and moved efficiently.
Work… our schedules don’t meet too often u fortunately🫤He is very limited with days and for me it’s too expensive to go to another country for 1-3 days.. but who knows how the future looks like!
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Bob I think it was not chairs but a small lift to move the heavy round up to the barrel
I can see this bunkers
The amount of effort, materials and design that went in that bunker boggles the mind. Epic.
Yes, and this is just 1 of the countless Bunkers of that line😮
The "effort" was mostly slave labour, the majority of the materials stolen from France ( or any occupied country)..it cost the German military next to nothing
War costs so much money man.
I'm just impressed at how rust free that 90 year old turret is inside in such a wet environment
It is ! Some more stuff is coming up :)
Must have been in A vacuum ......
They put that there, to sell videos!
@@kimmichaels899 So we take the guns inside the bunker? Have you seen the entrance? :D
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath No worries, Kimmichael is one of the 81 million low brain power voters
I grew up in Germany during the 50’s and 60’s. Locally we had a bunker that was destroyed by filling it with water then putting an explosive inside. There was no giant gun but there were remnants of a radio, lots of bullets and a crushed narrow gauge rail car where two soldiers would sit facing one another. I heard that there was an underground hospital nearby but we never found any evidence of it. I used to take the bullets home and remove the slug and pour out the gunpowder and set it on fire. At school we used to have ammunition awareness week where they used to bring in defused bombs and ammunition to discourage us from touching them if we found anything.
Do tej pory w Polsce często odkrywane są niewybuchy. Sam złapałem jednen na magnes neodymowy . Szukam z wykrywaczem i znajduje masę łusek , amunicji do mausera. Zgłaszam często na policję, żeby nie zrobiły krzywdy nikomu .
Did you grow up in the east or west? Did you have any run in with the Stasi?
My girlfriend lives in Köpernick district in Berlin and they find bombs all the time 79 years later
The absolute magnitude of these bunkers built pre/during the war just blows me away.
Thanks Bob for such an awesome video
There's a reason NASA recruited a bunch of Nazis post war. They were brilliant minds. Unfortunately being put to bad use in that era.
I've been in that bunker in the 90's.
Amazing how little it has changed till now. Wasn't burnt back then but the floors were pushed up already
I’ll be visiting the maginot in a few weeks, can you tell me where this thing is?
@@maxroffel2304 just look at all the signs in the video. listen and watch closely and you will fnd out. I just did. 3 hints... 0:22 , 3:38 and 2:52 was all I needed.
All that work to build it for it to be forgotten and left to rot , it would make a great museum
There are a few museums. There are so many that they can’t save them all. I just uploaded another Maginot bunker in a better shape and different features & guns🤗
That’s pretty wild how much the floors have buckled up from the expansion of that mineral!
You find the best places to explore!
I can't get to these places anymore ,so thank you for these films and showing me things I will not get to see for myself I have done a lot of exploring over the years and your adventures bring back so many memories and lets me come with you even if it is in a small way .This is wonderful stuff ,Thank you .
Bob, I never would have imagined hat such an intact complex of the Maginot Line still existed to this day. Thank you
There are some more cool ones! And I will also revisit some others I’ve been to and show pictures from almost 15 years ago when I went and compare it😊
A great explore of a fascinating bunker. Your explores with Eelco are some of my favourites on your channel. Really interesting (and funny) comments between you both. Thanks.
Thanks a lot Paul! Hope to go on some more trips together😄 We’re both very busy😒
Wow. Just wow. It's like stepping back in time. Thanks guys.
What an awesome bunker to explore! Lot's to see. Lekker knakworstjes met Hertog Jan bier, mooie tijd zo samen met Eelco :)
That was an epic explore with so much detail and still working systems and a great talk as you proceeded along the many corridors thanks Bob for the insight as I will never ba able to explore the site myself.
What a spectacular bunker, maybe the most intact I've ever seen! Thank you so much for sharing!!
Good stuff as usual Bob. You find some incredible places
Can we both be best friends?
Thanks a lot ☺️🙏
That place was massive thanks for sharing guys great work 👍
Fantastic stuff guys, your whole video set up is perfect 🙂
The Maginot line defence is amazing feat of engineering.
Great footage lads.
Crazy to imagine it’s almost a century old also..😳
i could just walk and walk and explore forever....Amazing video and thanks for the video bob
The mechanics of those turrets is nothing short of amazing! What an interesting place to explore.
Really cool...I have seen so many old films of inside the maginot line structures but this is an incredible view of what its like today.Really amazing after over 80 years..
Better then any History Channel documentaries 😜👍🏻
Wow how extraordinary to see the preservation of some of the mechanisms. Just amazing. Thanks 🙏
Some stuff in a good condition!
Bob and Eelco guiding you through the museums still without a ticket booth!
Best of the best videos! Great find, Bob! Hope you are doing well!
Very cool piece of history, thanks for sharing this with us 👍
I just crawled out of this bunker (again)😂 Thanks!
Easily the best bunker setup I've seen on an urban exploration channel!
I've just realized how much my years of working as a Home Inspector has messed with my mind, because I saw that entrance that you used to squeeze into the bunker and immediately thought "yeah, that appears serviceable".
Haha! Funny to look from that “ angle”😇
tough job home inspector....finding faults ...estimating repairs...every day... passing on all this good information to the potential new home owners
@@lawrenceaderneck7165 I love it.
Fasanating video. Great job filming 🎥
Thanks a lot! More of these coming up
Jeez. This structure is really complex... Amazing. Thank you for the content.
amazing video! I absolutely love historic military fortifications.
This was epic, im actually writing a book about ww2 and this gives me a good image of the bunkers back then
Nice Find Bob. Not Much WWII items left anymore.
I just uploaded another one, which was more intact😎
Lol yes there is more than you think. In Germany they find live ordinance all the time 79 years later
What a wonderful piece of history would make an amazing museum
Wonderful film guys
12:20 someone drank capri sun. i respect that so much
Reminds me of my explorations of the Maginot. That was 30 years ago. Still got hundreds of pictures.
I don’t think they were seats.i think they are hoppers to catch the ejected shell casings
That could be! I’ll dig more into all those things before I visit another one😬
But I do wonder where they were positioned in some turrets.. barely any space to stand…
Those are indeed spent casings hoppers. The fabric or rubber were used to prevent damage to the casings, since they were refilled and reused.
Seats no sitting down on the job lots off moving needed they are indeed for empty that can be reused anywhere they can save on making using more resources all so don't won't emptys rolling around the floor
Your content just gets better and better 😁👍
Thanks! I still mostly rush through places but I try to give more and more information.
Great video! It's a terrible shame that no one is maintaining this anymore. This is true history!
Personally I'm glad they arent all preserved. Most of these are but its more fun to explore these ones
Who is paying for that maintenance, you? You can't preserve everything and personally I wouldn't spent any money, whether that's tax money or mine, to maintain useless bunkers while there are roads, bridges and buildings that we use every day in need of repair. I mean, the Marginot Line is HUGE, you can't possible preserve all of those bunkers.
I absolutely love the map overlay as you go, super cool and informative
I dont think the whole corridor was on fire, the smoke is only high up on the walls and roof, they made piles of copper and burned it in the tunnels to get the plastic of, and the smoke has no way to go fast, thats why the roof and some of the walls is black all the way.
Awesome explore Bob. Bunkers are the coolest.
More cool ones coming up in the next months!
thanks for this longer tour coverage . you need to be patient to cover it being underground for long time
Thanks ! you can easily spend a day in there! I just uploaded another bunker of the same line, but than with very different features (guns and mortars) and a very intact generating room!
Thank you very much!
Been to visit one of the Maginot bunkers thats opened and restored, really impressive
They are impressive yes! I should too, to learn more about them. I only have seen abandoned ones😳
Nice video ❤
It is definitely creepy and cool. Amazing footage my friend !!!!
I’m so happy for all the new videos, Bob!! Good to see you and Eelco together again. Whenever I see a notification for a new video from you I immediately watch it. Thank you 🙏
Wow thanks bob. Was fascinating
Great video thanks for bring history alive
Unbelievable engineering brother…🔥🔥🔥
Man. The engineering even back then. Think about how long it took to dig that hole and the equipment? Impressive. Any idea how long it took to build something like this?
Hi Bob, thanks for the tour that is so awesome. Be safe.
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Danke für das tolle Video 😊
13:43 that was on fire 🔥 for ages to look 👀 like that
Static versus mobile defense. Interesting how military thought changed over time
And now it's changing back to more static defenses...at least in Ukraine
@@t0ny1189 US wars against poor people fooled a lot of people to think that way. There is no certain winning strategy which will last forever.
thank you for the tour
Nothing like seeing these two boys bunker diving together again.
Great time warp video, fantastic seeing all the equipment still in situ.👍👍🇬🇧
Hello everyone! Hope you're well Bob 💪😎⭐️
All good here! Soon to Greece for some adventures. Thanks for checking out!
I've been to the Maginot line. A section where it has been kept in working order, including the underground railway. Which was neat to ride on.
There's a section of the Maginot Line that I went in with a guided tour and it was all well kept. Really neat stuff.
You remember which one you went to?
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Great job Bob love all your excellent videos and hard work thank you guys.
Thanks a million 🙏 😇
Very nice explore!
Hands down, one of the best exploration videos ive seen in years, great work guys 👌
Check out my adventures to an abandoned aircraft carrier and former secret military underground workshop too😄🤩
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I'll definately check them out, love this kind of content ❤️
Amazing information and beautiful historical video
Thanks! More of these bunkers are coming up🤗
WOW What a cool place to look around!!
It is! You easily spend a day in there!
10:43
Germany: “why are those guns from the maginot line slowly turning towards us? I thought we were friends with the French now!!”
Absolutely amazing explore Bob!
Thanks bro! I’ll visit some more.
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The mass of some of the things back then scares the living shit out of me. Something terrifying about the machines of this era.
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I can not imagine the noise in that bunker when that was in full flow. Bob, I wish you could have shown where the guns were in relation to the outside
one of the best ww2 bunkers ive ever seen
Thinking about the construction of the bunker is mind-boggling. The excavation, the concrete forms that had to been constructed ect .
Oh hell yeah, can't wait 🤠🤠🤠
Absolutely amazing find Bob! The condition of the guns is impressive. Is this the bunker that burned in the early 2000's? I heard that it's quite hard to breathe still but that was years ago. Planning to go there myself next year, it's quite close to where I live.
You're making by far the best urban exploration content and this one is no exception - keep the videos coming!
Well, it's not that of an amazing find. Within the WWII historians community it is a pretty well known bunker.. a not so well kept secret, so to speak. 😊
I have been there, but at the time was not properly equipped to venture inside. So nice to see some well-filmed footage !
C'est l'ouvrage du Métrich qui a été pillé par les voleurs de cuivre. Après, une association qui sauvegarde un autre ouvrage Maginot est venue récupérer quelques pièces d'artillerie et divers matériels.
L'armée a essayé de boucher les entrées par des levées de terre pour éviter de s'aventurer à l'intérieur car il est dangereux.
This one is pretty known.. (although most people miss the guns. )probably the reason I did not go there for the channel earlier. But I found out it actually doesn’t matter how well known a place is😊
At least I don’t get in big trouble for exposing “ secret bunkers” this time😳😳
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPathIke in Italy 😅?
@@brainthesizeofplanet Yes ! And some stuff I can't show haha ;)
Super video 👍😉
HI, I'M BOB. AN URBAN EXPLARER.
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Hi bob
well he speaks more than just his naitive langauge jou?
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@dutchdude1972 I speak American English and the rest of the world can too because we have shown the world we can whip your ass.
Very KOOL Bob
Places like these should be preserved. If not for being relics of the past, we might need them again soon.
Would be useless in a modern war
@@JoshhGB They said the same thing for trench warfare
@@randomdude8202 i mean these places are in france not ukraine which is a nuclear power. The only countries strong enough to invade france are also nuclear powers. What use would they be in a nuclear war?
@@JoshhGB You hide inside.
@@randomdude8202 and die from radiation?
Amazing that the guns were still there.
People forget to look up! There is an overhead track system that runs the length of the bunker, allowing the supplies and ammunition to easily be brought into the bunker and moved efficiently.
You mean the one they're looking up at 7:58? 🙄
Where r the big guns
Sick video bro keep it up and stay safe
Love your work Bob, thanks for sharing.
Thanks !! I keep them coming🙏😎
Great video..where’s Elco been hiding?
New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦
Work… our schedules don’t meet too often u fortunately🫤He is very limited with days and for me it’s too expensive to go to another country for 1-3 days.. but who knows how the future looks like!
Wow that's cool enjoyed it
It's really fun to experience exploring places like this.
Wow what a fantastic explore
Top demais mesmo 😃 parabéns gostei
You guys show interesting stuff.
Een prima vonst weer een hoop achtergelaten, een mooie explore erg veilig is dat kreng niet meer zo te zien wow.
Ik ga er binnenkort nog enkele andere doen en ik heb er nog enkele op de plank liggen die ook de moeite zijn! Bedankt weer voor het kijken🙏
It was fun to find this location using your video.
Nice video would be great to see it in person👍
😮😮😮😮 I'm speeches!!
Ok, not speechless enough to not say thank you for the video, that's utterly amazing!!
Thanks! Some more epic bunkers coming up😏😏😏
That is so cool you guys get to explore this 😊