SECRET ME262 Bunker Complex - Explored!
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- During WW2, secret military projects sprung up all over Germany. Few remain but the ME262 Engine complex at Mülhdorf Hart remains in silent tesimony to those dark times.
In this video I explore the ruins of this vast secret ME262 bunker complex in Southern Germany and look at the human side of the story. All filmed on location this video will give you an idea of what took place here and what remains of the site that can still be found to this day!
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The human story is overwhelming and shows the other side to the war. We will remember them.
imagine the sheer output of the Jumo 004B engines, had this complex been completed.
It would have been crazy and possibly tip the scales in the air war
Amazing site! The level of construction that went into these locations and all of the German WWII infrastructure including the construction of the Atlantic Wall Defenses is a lasting reminder, at least in my mind, that if Hitler had not invaded the Soviet Union or Africa and listened to some of his generals, we all could quite possibly be speaking German today and the world would look totally different. The Germans would have certainly conquered all of europe to include the UK and this would have left him with the resources to focus on fighting the Americans. This would have meant that the U.S. would have been forced to fight on two fronts with Japan and Germany and would have split those resources that were allowed to be pushed into europe to fight. The war would have certainly lasted longer then 1945 and would have given the Germans plenty of time to develop the Atomic and Hydrogen bomb which is a terrifying prospect to consider. Hitler would have certainly used the Atomic bomb and the other advanced weapons they were working on against the United States and, therefore, would have occupied most of the world. Russia without the U.S. and Great Britain would have signed a peace deal with Hitler and that would be it. According to many of the German scientists who were in Germany working on developing the atomic bomb for the Nazis, they were just 6 months away from full development of a working bomb in December of 1944. This is truly horrifying to think about and is all the more reason to thank our Grandfathers for sacrificing what they did to stop this war.
My father was in a sister camp of Kuno at Muhldorf. This factory near Dachau was much more extensive and was also building Me-262. My father is now 97 and in good health. Here is part of his story. : Another daybreak and the Nazis again asked for volunteers. Dad raised his hand and marched off with some others to the trains. That day he was taken to Muldorf and put to work building an underground airport. The Germans hoped to create a landing strip that could be naturally shielded in the thick forest it rested in. He was tasked with lugging giant boulders on his back to assigned locations. Why use Burros or wheel barrels when you have disposable Jews? One afternoon he was hauling another fifty-pound sack of sand onto the top of the bunker. He followed the instructions of a Nazi soldier leading the way, but as he climbed, Gabe noted that the soldier had taken a slight detour to give himself a smoke. As Dad reached the uppermost pinnacle, he saw a great vantage point from the edge of the stone building. It was at that moment he decided to share his good fortune. He approached the rim and spotted a chubby, obviously well-fed Nazi just below. Dad dug deep under his shirt, near his sweaty armpit, and collected as many Lice as he could; he took another look around, making sure he wasn’t spotted, then opened his hand and allowed the Lice to fall like tiny itchy snow flakes. He hoped they would land on target and infest the S.O.Bs below him.
Aspirations for the completion of the airport were scrapped when the American and British fighting planes began constantly appearing in the sky. The Germans quickly decided they needed to eliminate all these possible witnesses. They couldn’t take their Jews back to Dachau as it had since been liberated, so they loaded them back onto the train and tried to head to a still large and dense forest that could accommodate the number of Jews they had to dispose of, but the tracks had been bombed. They didn’t know what to do with them, so they left them in those cars for three days. Some Nazis abandoned their posts, and everyone spilled out when the prisoners inside the car cracked the door open wide enough for a body to slide through. He moved to LA, and the rest is history. It is a good thing the Allies pushed the war faster. The Me-262 was a great aircraft and could have reversed the tide if enough had been produced.
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He certainly, in his lifetime, seen many wonderful things, from the first airplanes to going to the moon. He has also witnessed the most unbelievable things humans can do to others. He is a very special human. When I meet someone who has an impact on me, I like to share a hug. Two humans share unspoken feelings. Please give your father a hug from the United States. I'll remember your post for a long time, moving for me.
Wow! 97 years old! God bless him.
Thanks for sharing ❤
It really brings it home as to what a liar Albert Speer was. Wonderful video.
Another great story. Your knowledge and storytelling are by far the best of WW2 on RUclips. It is clear this complex wouldn't have been built without human sacrifice. Keep up the great work.
Thank you that’s very kind! The complex at Mulhdorf is impressive and chilling in equal measure with the boot prints in the concrete. That more than anything really struck me as to the human cost involved in building the place.
I admire your extraordinary work! You are a great historian.
Thanks for sharing ❤
Thank you!
another well researched presentation.thank you.the massive arch reminds me of La Coupole in Eperleque northern france. a 7meter thick dome for v2 rockets. i am sure this is on your to do list.
I almost feel I was there! Great video and probably unique on youtube
Thanks Matthew! I’m hoping to go back and tell more of the personal stories I’ve learnt about since filming there! Glad you enjoyed it!
I‘m from Bavaria and been there a couple times already. It is now a memorial site that you can visit.
Lots of small bunkers around the big structure.
Great view from above the bunker btw😂
I just now realized that the 262 were launched from there..
It's quite the place to explore isn't it! And great to see the local council making it into a memorial site.
What a huge, incredible site. It’s almost impossible to imagine.
I'll be going back to tell the personal stories I've since found about the site!
We will love to hear those incredible stories!
This was amazing! I couldn't believe the vastness of this place. Good video. I'm glad you spent some time at the memorial.
Thank you Beth. It’s quite a place to visit with the sheer scale of what was built there set against the suffering of those forced to build it. I plan to go back there to tell the personal stories I’ve since found after visiting the site.
Just a small point/query - the stuff I have read suggests that the tunnel railway was used to REMOVE material rather than import it. Basically removing the shale mound from inside the cast arch
I thought that too, but I can only go on what I was told, however that could also be a translation point/misinterpretation but to say he was buried under the deposits several times suggests it was used to bring materials in BUT I think could work either way if that makes sense?
That makes sense 👍🏻
I must admit your description on that episode sir, is quite something really in connections to what you say and mentioning of what the series, "hunting hitler" doesn't mention at all and If I'm honest you do a good/great job on that
Thank you Brett, very kind of you to say so. I’m hoping to make it back there as since I visited last weekend I ended up looking at a load of personal accounts of the site and how the construction company, SS guards etc were dealt with post war and it needs bringing to light so there’s a Part 2 planned for the next few weeks!
I wonder if all this will still be remembered in a thousand years from now? I hope so and lets hope those you come after us aren't so silly to let it happen again. No guarantees there though.
NICELY DONE !!! The Respect you paid to those who died was wonderful and Necessary.
I was just in Bavaria, I wish I knew about this site then…Thank you!
Thank you! It’s a very impressive yet sobering site to visit. Hopefully you can visit there next time you’re back in Bavaria!
Nice Work!
Thank you!
You show us these ruins that would produced weapons of destruction - ME 62 engines.
In the background as you filmed, the site is slowly be reclaimed by nature and you can hear the birds singing. Nature will destroy what dynamite could not of the last arch.
Glad there are plans to remind us what the place was, and the people who where brought here as slaves who built it.😢
The foot prints in the concrete of the ghostly men who built this dreadful place.
It's a very strange place to walk around and explore, and nice to see the local counicl are doing more to remember what took place there so future generations can learn from it.
Immense, great video. Have you ever been to the Valentin submarine bunker near Bremen? Absolutely huge, very sad story about the forced labour workers who died there and also the sinking of a ship that thousands were evacuated to
Well that was a pretty good workout for you, sadly due to heath problems my rambling days are over, thank you for showing me something I will never be able to see up close and personal.
It’s a vast site and there was still one area I didn’t make it to!
Just found your channel, nice one, any model shows up Cheshire way this year?subbed
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Thank you! Hope you enjoy my other stuff on here!
I understood tunnels were used to take gravel out finished arch as gravel used to support concrete while it set , as a form
Must have been a hive of activity when all this was being constructed. Must have been easily visible from aircraft.
Very much so but I think the Allies were totally unsighted on what it was for so were keen to monitor it rather than knock it out and given the amount of forced labour there I think it was a good think they just monitored it!
Excellent commentary, thank you. Really enjoyed this.
Thank you for taking the time to watch! It’s a fascinating site but the knowledge of who built it and the conditions under which they suffered brings it into stark contrast. Fortunately the local authorities seem to be making an effort to actually preserve the site which is a positive move on their part.
Amazing, thanks for making the video. I'd heard of Weingut but never seen it.
You’re most welcome. It’s an incredible site to explore if you ever get the chance I highly recommend it!
great video. the purpose of blowing these places after the war was a complete waste of time and money
Beautifully made. And what a incredible story about the austrian man. Keep up the good work mate😉
Thank you!
I couldn’t believe it when I heard about him and how he kept getting trapped during its construction but still visits the site to this day. Incredible to think all that work, virtual conditions and deaths of thousands all for something that was never used. Mind blowing to think how it could have happened!
Wow, very well done and risky too. Your work to document and explain these sites is wonderful Sir. May God Bless you always, QED
Thank you so much, that’s very kind of you to say so. It was a very interesting place to film especially set against the brutality that was met out to the work force there. A very thought provoking place and it left a real impression on me.
Thank you for taking the time to watch!
Im sure there is a simple answer but how do you know what the purpose of the bunker was? From finding plans/documents? from things that were found at the site? Witness account?
Fantastic video
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. I’m looking to go back at some point as I’ve found so many personal accounts since I visited I feel those stories need to be told!
hola a donde esta eso ?
Mulhdorf Forrest to the east of Munich in Bavaria, Germany.
Thanks!
Thank you so much! Very much appreciated!
Just an absolute waste of human life, nothing was really accomplished. The one thing that I have noticed is that Albert Speer and Germany went through massive amounts of concrete and rebar during the Third Reich, only to have most of those projects destroyed. Good episode.
It’s chilling to walk the ground there and see the boot marks in the concrete. Of all the places I’ve visited, for some reason those really struck a cord with me.
Those footprints in the concrete are chilling given that they are likely from slave laborers.
I thought "ground" was an American saying................ and "floor" was typical for the European side of the pond.
It really did give me the chills when I saw them, know the conditions under which they had been made.
It is interesting how Franz Xaver Dorsch, an old Nazi friend of Hitler and the engineer and designer of this bunker complex, went on to found the Dorsch Gruppe, now employing 1,600 people and Germany's largest independent planning and consulting company. Dorsch avoided prosecution following the war and was commissioned by the United States Army to write a 1,000-page study of the Organisation Todt, at which he was the chief engineer, and which was published in 1947. This organisation was responsible for a huge range of engineering projects both in Nazi Germany and in occupied territories from France to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and was notorious for using forced labour. From 1943 until 1945 during the late phase of the Third Reich, OT administered all constructions of concentration camps to supply forced labour to industry. Dorsch died in Munich on 8 November 1986.
It’s interesting isn’t it, how those responsible for so much suffering got off so lightly post the war. I would love to know who on the Allied side was making these decisions to allow these men to essentially walk free and then prosper based upon their activities during the war.
@@WW2Wayfinder After ww2 nobody in germany was willing to deal with things from the third reich - the silence was so dense that as an exsamble it was in 1965 the first trials on the holocaust was in session - thats 20 years after the war and lots of the persons involved had given up on bringing the perps to justice - Here the last years the germans finally has given up there silence and really being actively dealing with germanys past in a open way.
Absolutely huge place and great report. Amazing what can be achieved with slave labour, which is terrible.
Thank you! It’s a chilling place to visit. Impressive but harrowing, especially when you see the boots prints in the concrete!
Very sad that so many people suffered due to the Nazi crazy and horrific ideals.
Agreed. However their sacrifice is remembered at the site by the local authorities which is nice to see.
What an engineering achievement, makes no since to have destroyed it. It changed nothing except making a big mess. Nothing has been done with the land or probably ever will. If left in tact it would have been a great attraction for those studying engineering. Total waste!
The local council are now making more efforts there to show case what happened at the site both in terms of what it would have been used for and more importantly the human cost involved in it's construction. Thanks for watching.