Tino, man, I thank you for your drive/effort/research & presentation (& no doubt, personal cost) to bring us the history of many forgotten or discounted areas,battles & sacrifice that ALL countries & their people made. Maybe, just maybe, lessons will be learnt. But, in general humanity discounts these mistakes/decisions & thinks they can do better. Once again, I thank you as history in all it's facets has always been a major interest.
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That was awesome. I would love to see this place. Very close to being 100% original. The original 1945 pics were also a nice touch for comparison. Just wow
Glad people like you are around . Have noticed in recent years WW2 history is getting less accurate & almost to fit a 21st century narrative . Instead of just telling the history . Amazing place
Thank you so much for saying so that is one of the bigger compliments I can receive I completely agree with you that's why I started I was just not happy with what I keep seeing on TV and I believe that people truly interested in history or World War I want more details then the candy on TV
True I really am rather adorable lol kidding. Thank you sometimes it takes a lot longer to research the history and photos then it takes to go there and film a location..
What a fascinating video! So happy that this piece of military history has been retained and restored and not destroyed. On my bucket list to travel to Europe and tour these WWII sites. Thanks for this tour!
THANK YOU TINO. GOOD JOB. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF DENMARK AND YOURSELF FOR RECOGNIZING THE HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE GERMAN BUNKERS. THANK YOU DENMARK FOR ALL THE EFFORT AND MONEY TO RESTORE. GO ARMY !!
HELLO EVERYBODY I AM SO HAPPY YOU LIKE THIS VIDEO, I DID A LOT MORE AND HOST A MILITARY Q/A BUT THE LONG VERSION OF ALL THE BUNKERS I SHOT IN DENMARK IS HERE TO ua-cam.com/video/rOFyJ_OLkRA/v-deo.html
I live in Thisted 10 minutes from there, and I can confirm, that this is a brilliant experience. For those if you who are not danish, it’s about an hour and 40-50 minutes from the nearest airport- Aalborg Airport.
That is exactly right on the way you may pass the bridge at the end of the video with the bunkers on both sides :-) go in the summer have a couple puff pastries.. just saying
To be honest it's not that big I've been there 9 times Trust me it's not worth flyng here for just this But if you are here anyway then it is a good experience!
If you want to see an intact gun turret, like the one we see @5:30, visit Harstad. They got 4 of them still standing in different forms of repair, and one that is open as a guided tour.
Powerful message! Growing up in the South I explored any Civil War and Revolutionary War site possible. History is my passion and I want to visit Europe to see all the sites left.
Absolutely fascinating. The details that went into this complex is unreal. There's nothing built today that could withstand time like these have. Everything was built to last back then and it has. 12 hours CQ sitting there manning a shooting port, staying warm
This is awesome! ALL history items should be kept like this. As you know, here in the U.S. history is slowly being dismantled and destroyed. It is SOOOOOO important to keep history intact and teach it, or the lessons learned from it will be forgotten and will repeat itself in the future. Thank you Tino. It's a fantastic thing that you are doing!
“And somewhere they will have beer”! Hail fellow pilgrim and brother!🍺 Good summary of that generation. I still remember the old guys that taught me how to shoot - a long way. They just did things and never made a big fuss about it. Brits, Americans , Aussies, New Zealanders, Canadians , Indians , and the other team too. They had inner resources that have been somewhat dismissed nowadays.
There wasnt a "we cant" attitude, simply because of their ideology. Keep in mind that the bunkers you visited was built by the "Organisation Todt (OT)". They used forced labor. They used prisoners of war and inmates from concentration camps as slaves. I thought it would be good to mention that fact. But thank you for the great video!
actually the danish bunkers were built by danish workers who were paid there things were slightly more civilized.... but parts of the airfare components were manufactured in Poland by slave labor...
DE Vito - Absolute DRIVEL! Even the inmates of the Concentration Camps - that were WORK CAMPS after WW2 broke out but were TRANSIT CAMPS before then - got paid for their work and were hardly slaves as they were well looked after and had hospitals, brothels, theatres, cinemas, swimming pool, sports fields, post office etc etc etc. Hitlers Germany NEVER had any plans to invade any country never mind the world and it was the Allies that started WW2 by getting the Polish Government to start to ethnically cleanse and murder the Germans living in the German areas handed over to Poland after WW1 forcing Hitler to go to their aid and even after he over ran Europe and forced the British/French back to Dunkirk Hitler offered to retreat back to the pre-Versailles German border with no strings attached but the corrupt Elites puppet refused because the Elites and their puppets in the Allied and Communist governments who were both funded and controlled by these Elites could not allow Hitler and Germany continue to be successful by doing what the corrupt Allies and Communist governments should have been doing for their own people so they had to take out Hitler and Germany in case the dumb masses woke up and started to question why their corrupt governments were not doing the same. Google Paisley Expressions and the Jesus, Hitler and Wizard of Oz post on there just now exposing the TRUTH about Hitler, WW2 and how we have always been getting lied to. These Elites and our corrupt governments including Communist China are still conning the people with the same agenda today with all of the totally FAKE terrorism and totally FAKE virus pandemic as they try to destroy the worlds economy again just like they did in the 1920's with their DELIBERATELY created Depression in order to create their New World Order - One World Communist Government DICTATORSHIP and this is going to be soon Part 2 of that post on Paisley Expressions. And they have conned you all into thinking that it was Hitler that was trying to take over the world.
This has been a brilliant video Tino in seeing the insides of these places. You were being a bit sore on yourself in the video not showing how it was. The echo of sound would let you know what it was like. I’ve only seen this today Tino, and I’ve loved the feel and sound of what this place was like. For those of us who have not been is bloody amazing! It’s a brilliant preserved area that should be like all bunker complex’s. Instead they blew them to hell and back again? And this is your home country, in how it should be in preserving even a difficult time for the Danish people? No more destruction only preserving should be done like this!
Great job. Really appreciate you made the effort to find period authentic inset photos from the era and actual location, and even to note corrections your own audio narrative with on screen text. Very Credible.
Great restoration, I would love to visit in the future. It is amazing that by the end of WW2 these permanently installed artillery guns/cannons which was a standard of defenses and military tactics for 800+ years was a thing of the past. How quickly technology progressed by the end of the war.
It's time to go back tomorrow and look at the unexplored part of the complex and after that it's time to go to Norway and taking look at the big gun up there!! see you Saturday :-)
Great movie. I know all locations since my childhood.Driving since the 70‘ one or two times each year to Jütland. As a child we digt for mag cases and cartridge sleeves in the sand and explored the bunkers which where not restored with our maglittes💪💪
Me also. As a kid in the 1970s we used to look for spent bullets and cases in the sand dunes near the British Air Force base at Kinloss in Scotland. There were also lots of abandoned concrete bunkers, concrete block tank-traps and sometimes we found bits of sand bags or barbed wire. The same war but on the other side of the sea.
You have to come to Kristiansand in Norway! here we have one of these mega cannons still working where you can walk inside it too! its in Møvig, they even recently painted it in the original camo and colors!
I'm actually planning on doing that very thing so many of you from Norway wrote I'm going to have to bring my new camera up there as soon as we can all travel
THIS WAS THE FIRST OF MY WW2 BUNKER VISITS. SINCE i HAVE DONE SERIES ON THE EAST WALL, LOTS OF MILITARY Q/A EPISODES WHERE YOU HAVE ALL WRITTEN ME QUESTIONS. ALSO ONE MORE VISIT TO HANSTHOLM AND i HAVE SEVERAL MORE SERIES COMING THIS WINTER - PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AND FOLLOW SO I CAN KEEP MAKING MORE FOR YOU ALL.
Time 22:48 the Bunker which has been blown up, has been used to blown up old ammunition by the defense, because it is so badly damaged is because the Navy blasted an excessive amount of old ammunition in it. The explosion was so powerful that it tore up the wall (1½ meters, or 6 feet wide). It happened a few years ago.
@@rapskallion alright already with the flashlight LOL I did it so you could get a true sense of how it was to stumble around in the dark with pieces of rubble falling on your head sort of like putting on a virtual reality headset and I have somebody sporadically hit you with a bat LOL I got a lot better equipment since then after all this videos actually quite old :-) but thank you just wait to see what I drag out of Europe in a few months
Fantastic video on old war history. I have seen your war movies. Now I am happy to see your documentary on the places where war was conducted. Really superb. When you visit India, you please contact me, I will show you the historical places in South India.
Somewhere there is beer , sounds like a must go place to have a beer and see a super fascinating bunker system, thanks Timo for another great vid Thanks 🙏🙏
The place at 28:41 was probably a place for an AA gun, like the 88. The small bunkers around would have been for ammunition and were perhaps walled up after the war. Some of the bunkers have been used for training firefighter from the CF. Also one of the 38 cm bunkers has been used for that (the most eastern one). Some of the open placements were used for the 17 cm until the closed bunkers were built.
This is a very incredible place. I have seen it before with the WW2HISTORYHUNTER. I have been following him for a while. I look forward to watching more of your videos.
I was hoping to travel to Poland to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau ant then to go to Dresden Germany to visit relatives that decided to stay in 1933. So I could find out more about my great grandfather who served in the German navy in WW1 as a WO witch is like the executive officer just under the captain But those plans had to be put aside for now. Maybe next summer. I will get there.
What amazes me is how fast they built them bunkers it was sept of 39 they attacked Poland and by D day of june 44 they had all that built, armed and ready
Enjoyed your video and point you showed. I was stationed in the U.K, for four years and after I bought a car I was able to tour the country side and visit many of the old RAF and USAAF bases. Many were overgrown and the building falling down. But surprisingly enough some were still in fair shape with the tower and other facilities still standing. I had a Bounty Metal Detector and snooped around some of the areas to see what artifices I might run across. Found a few items of interest and turned them over the the authorities with information on when and where I discovered them. Fortunately they did not rip me a new one nor charge me since I discovered that I was not supposed to have a metal detector on the property.
You know what they say rules are guidance for the wise and obedience for the fools LOL if it wasn't for historians Taking Chances we would never learn anything :-) one day I would love to do a comparison between the bunker structures of the Germans and of the allies if you have any pictures of videos I would love to see :-)
Thank you but on the other hand if I slipped in a particularly amusing way and had to be Medevaced to a hospital I'm pretty sure that would double the raitings LOL not to worry but thank you for caring
Very well done, Tks. You mentioned Ft MacArthur, use to go there for ROTC rifle training at the range. Would shoot right over the ocean. Late 60’s, early 70’s.
Greetings-I don’t have any photos of that, wish I did. Don’t remember a lot, except qualifying expert on the M 1 and wondering how many yachts got hit by stray bullets. Agree with you on trying to keep authenticity on WW II film. Just watched a documentary on shooting down Yamamoto. I swear they used every bit of file footage of any type of plane available to portray P38’s
I don't exactly know what you call crap, but there are a lot of very interesting history channel stories that are very interesting and informative. Calling every history channel crap is pure stupidity.
@@rickwhite4137 the problem we are having with mainstream historical programming is it is no way near in depth it never covers all sides of a story and usually it sprinkled somewhat with a bit of bias which in some cases I can forgive but if you claim to be doing accurate history programs you have to paddle down the middle another problem is the constant repetition of what the program already covered independent historians and documentarians that you see here can just take the story and move it forward because they respect Their audience knowing that they can remember what they said 15 minutes ago in the show to me what I am seeing on TV is catering to the basic 10 year old there's very little to be learned it is not sophisticated and in-depth and it seems sensationalized and commercialized with an agenda for the most parts and that is frustrating if you watch these shows hoping to learn something you did not know of course if you know nothing and is starting from scratch learning history you know like the average college student LOL obviously these shows have a place
@@tinostruckmann When you refer to TV, I'm afraid you refer to American TV. I don't understand people are watching any of these TV channels. You will find some real good history channels on UA-cam
you should visit the sister battery in Kristiansand there is still the cannon. the cannon was so powerful that it could shoot almost half way to Norway and many houses were cracked and missing windows after test shootings. a few years ago I was in one of the ammunition piles they are huge.
I was actually planning on a full month tour with proper equipment to document a lot of these sites in Norway Belgium Germany Poland and then somebody got the flu and screwed up my plans LOL but I will as soon as this is over
@@RichardGjerdin is that still there? I thought that I've been dismantled that would be an awesome story I have to go do a story on that and film it you are right I'm guessing the wreck is too deep to dive on?
I have a question for all by Norwegians does any of you have any information about the heavy German planes that were supposed to be stationed in Oslo towards the very end of the war?
Like your perspective on history. Not one sided as many try to tell. Bravo on this video. I will subscribe. Hope you still do these. as I see this is form 2017. Best Wishes.Dominic
Dude you are awesome! I've been following you for a good time now. And you never disappoint. I've always been fascinated with german bunker and subterranean defense systems the Germans have made.
Very nicely done! I liked the perspective and yes, of course, history is never black and white, and context is critical. You really don't get "the historical color" or the context unless you visit. Thank you for your attention to the details that make it historically and culturally interesting.
With all the waste plastic, it would be nice to have a replica of the big cannon made to give people a better perspective. Even of the crane you mention that was needed for the cannon.
I completely agree but that goes hand-in-hand with the destruction of so many of those historical locations there's an identical bunker 500m from it and they covered it up completely with dirt it's very very sad
Tino Von Struckmann well, atleast they didn’t blow it up. I live near the atlantikwall in the Netherlands and a lot of bunkers were blown up :-( Luckily the ones that still remain are taken care of very well.
Tino Von Struckmann i’d recommend going to “festung holland” theres a bunker with a flak 8,8 and another one with a pak40, There is also the fort itself which is Dutch from before ww2, it has quite an interesting story. While turning its turrets inland to fire at landing aircraft and paratroopers during the invasion in 1940 by germany the rotating mechanism broke.
Mate just watched this how fantastic this was. I’ve read slot of history of the war. And I agree it annoys me that people just use wha ever footage w s facts they want. More of these clips plz. I do t have the ability to see this history myself but live watching these clips on history.
you should visit batterie "theo" in norway. it has the only functioning 40cm german land-based artillery left in the world. the guns were planned to be used on new german battleships, but they decided to use them for coastal artillery instead. they are the largest land-based coastal artillery ever made. if they want to they can fire it today. sadly the area they are in is still military, so you can only get guided tours, but man is it worth it. it lies just outside harstad in northern norway. across the "west fjord" is batterie "dietl" in steigen. here you can explore freely and see how such a battery was organized
I absolutely I want to I love Norway I haven't been there for a few years I think my UA-cam Buddy World War II history Hunter did the video from there? But they're still nothing like seeing it myself.
@@tinostruckmann no they havent fired it since the late 40s i think.. i heard a local story about them firing it over a nearby island and the schockwave/soundwave from the grenades shattered all the house-windows in the vicinity. me and my two best friends have an annual camping trip to batterie dietl every summer. we camp on top of the command bunker (regelbau s-100, one of two ever built i think) and enjoy the magnificent view of the lofoten wall across the fjord (we also get massively drunk and have a good time) ;-)
You make great vids and you are correct primary sources are the best being able to read the original documents is a must problem is some one writes a book gets something wrong then next writer reads said book writes his own book repeats bad info soon it is accepted as fact
Oh yes the eternal history issue everybody quotes everybody else, I do try to visit the sites without to much information and just let the location tell me what is there.
This might is the first time watching one of your videos and I am amazed by your narrative and the location so thanks for the video. Liked n' Subscribed. Cheers
What did they do with the very large gun in footage 5:25 when your in the inside of the ring? Did the locals cut that rifle down and melt or did they dismantle and roll into sea?
Have you seen the Film "Under the sand" It fits really good to this Bunkersystems-Denmarks seaside was the most infected sides with mines.When war was gone they keept a large group of really young soldiers-a lot of them wasnt elder than 15-16 years,to remove all the mines.This was a crime after the Geneva Conventions.A lot of them died there.
I knew the historian who advised them on that movie and he was very dismayed that they took it too many Liberties in the storytelling :-) my grandfather was around 4 that unfortunately he no longer is alive to tell the story anymore but it's a good movie still and it brings highlight to another part of a sad time
Thank you so much for the very kind words however I will say there's a lot of people that knows a lot more :-) but I will always try to give you the most information that I can possibly research myself to from the best possible sources and my honest conclusion from what I see :-)
Tino, man, I thank you for your drive/effort/research & presentation (& no doubt, personal cost) to bring us the history of many forgotten or discounted areas,battles & sacrifice that ALL countries & their people made.
Maybe, just maybe, lessons will be learnt.
But, in general humanity discounts these mistakes/decisions & thinks they can do better.
Once again, I thank you as history in all it's facets has always been a major interest.
Very nice job. Shared your video on FaceBook and with my son and grandson. Subscribed.
yay thank you
I have to thank the people of Denmark for preserving this history for all people and their children.
Your welcome Sir :)
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@Jayden Ayaan Instablaster ;)
@@renemllermadsen8509 great respect to all your people
Tack Danmark för att ni bevarade detta till omvärlden. ❤
That was awesome. I would love to see this place. Very close to being 100% original. The original 1945 pics were also a nice touch for comparison. Just wow
Glad people like you are around . Have noticed in recent years WW2 history is getting less accurate & almost to fit a 21st century narrative . Instead of just telling the history .
Amazing place
Thank you so much for saying so that is one of the bigger compliments I can receive I completely agree with you that's why I started I was just not happy with what I keep seeing on TV and I believe that people truly interested in history or World War I want more details then the candy on TV
what's not to love about this guy? he is a wonderful true storyteller showing rare accurate photo's
True I really am rather adorable lol kidding. Thank you sometimes it takes a lot longer to research the history and photos then it takes to go there and film a location..
i LOVE HISTORY, and this channel is a great addition to anyone who loves history,.
Thank you for saying so
I know I’m late to the party on this one. But thank you for posting this. Absolutely amazing.
What a fascinating video! So happy that this piece of military history has been retained and restored and not destroyed. On my bucket list to travel to Europe and tour these WWII sites. Thanks for this tour!
THANK YOU TINO. GOOD JOB. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PEOPLE OF DENMARK AND YOURSELF FOR RECOGNIZING THE HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE GERMAN BUNKERS. THANK YOU DENMARK FOR ALL THE EFFORT AND MONEY TO RESTORE. GO ARMY !!
I agree thank you for saying so
I would love to go and see this someday!
I think you should and its Norway adjacent where the sister battery is
@@tinostruckmann I will once covid is over. I'm all the way down in New Zealand
HELLO EVERYBODY I AM SO HAPPY YOU LIKE THIS VIDEO, I DID A LOT MORE AND HOST A MILITARY Q/A BUT THE LONG VERSION OF ALL THE BUNKERS I SHOT IN DENMARK IS HERE TO ua-cam.com/video/rOFyJ_OLkRA/v-deo.html
I live in Thisted 10 minutes from there, and I can confirm, that this is a brilliant experience. For those if you who are not danish, it’s about an hour and 40-50 minutes from the nearest airport- Aalborg Airport.
That is exactly right on the way you may pass the bridge at the end of the video with the bunkers on both sides :-) go in the summer have a couple puff pastries.. just saying
Tino Von Struckmann indeed
Pity we can,t fly but that is Just a minor detail. Oh and the borders are closed by the way
Almost forgot
@@dickvansteijn4115 don't worry the nonsense will be over soon
To be honest it's not that big I've been there 9 times Trust me it's not worth flyng here for just this But if you are here anyway then it is a good experience!
If you want to see an intact gun turret, like the one we see @5:30, visit Harstad. They got 4 of them still standing in different forms of repair, and one that is open as a guided tour.
Powerful message! Growing up in the South I explored any Civil War and Revolutionary War site possible. History is my passion and I want to visit Europe to see all the sites left.
Tell you what Julie I'll do a deal with you if you show me all the Civil War battlefields and I will drag you all over Europe:-) :-)
@@tinostruckmann Deal! As a bonus I still have my Southern Accent! I hear a little of yours too.
Absolutely fascinating. The details that went into this complex is unreal. There's nothing built today that could withstand time like these have. Everything was built to last back then and it has. 12 hours CQ sitting there manning a shooting port, staying warm
This looks like a fantastic museum, it's now on my list. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
Anytime I can
This is awesome! ALL history items should be kept like this. As you know, here in the U.S. history is slowly being dismantled and destroyed. It is SOOOOOO important to keep history intact and teach it, or the lessons learned from it will be forgotten and will repeat itself in the future.
Thank you Tino. It's a fantastic thing that you are doing!
Wow, that was fantastic thank you.
Such a shame how these peaces of history are treated with no respect.
Wow what a cool place.
Absolutely amazing what the Germans built is such a short time.
Bill Pugh locals built that. However point taken, NAZIs were off the chart with the entire slave labor thing.
All the bunkers here in Denmark where built by Danish workers😎🇩🇰🔧🏡
Great. Video. The best representation of ww2 weapons and systems. Thanks for sharing
This was a great video. Blows my mind the engineering that went into this.
As a Danish engineer soldier, i trained in that sort of environment, same sort of forest, up in Skive northern Jutland..
Oooooh the memories..
Jeg startede i DRLR :-)
😀🇩🇰
@@Madsen-by1hy nej da jeg taler Jysk!
Jeg troede faktisk at du var en amerikaner som havde studeret i Danmark.
Jeg bor dog på sjælland, blev sendt til Skive via session🙄
@@tinostruckmann haha dejligt, en jyde som var udstationeret i Kbh og en københavner som var udstationeret i Jylland 😂
Amazing video Brother..... You did not get on my nerves at all.... Subscribed.....!
Thank you so much for saying so I do try to not get on people's nerves but I usually do not succeed :-) more to come
You are a natural at this..... Keep up the outstanding work Brother 💪
@@paulscottpadgett1996 cheers to that:-)
“And somewhere they will have beer”! Hail fellow pilgrim and brother!🍺 Good summary of that generation. I still remember the old guys that taught me how to shoot - a long way. They just did things and never made a big fuss about it. Brits, Americans , Aussies, New Zealanders, Canadians , Indians , and the other team too. They had inner resources that have been somewhat dismissed nowadays.
War footing, as known.
Great Vid. Cheers from Canada. Danke schon
Thank you for saying so at least I got a better camera since
Great video.
That bunker/museum was done up very well.
There wasnt a "we cant" attitude, simply because of their ideology. Keep in mind that the bunkers you visited was built by the "Organisation Todt (OT)". They used forced labor. They used prisoners of war and inmates from concentration camps as slaves. I thought it would be good to mention that fact. But thank you for the great video!
It was indeed " you must " attitude
actually the danish bunkers were built by danish workers who were paid there things were slightly more civilized.... but parts of the airfare components were manufactured in Poland by slave labor...
China uses inmates as a slave labour still today?
DE Vito - Absolute DRIVEL! Even the inmates of the Concentration Camps - that were WORK CAMPS after WW2 broke out but were TRANSIT CAMPS before then - got paid for their work and were hardly slaves as they were well looked after and had hospitals, brothels, theatres, cinemas, swimming pool, sports fields, post office etc etc etc. Hitlers Germany NEVER had any plans to invade any country never mind the world and it was the Allies that started WW2 by getting the Polish Government to start to ethnically cleanse and murder the Germans living in the German areas handed over to Poland after WW1 forcing Hitler to go to their aid and even after he over ran Europe and forced the British/French back to Dunkirk Hitler offered to retreat back to the pre-Versailles German border with no strings attached but the corrupt Elites puppet refused because the Elites and their puppets in the Allied and Communist governments who were both funded and controlled by these Elites could not allow Hitler and Germany continue to be successful by doing what the corrupt Allies and Communist governments should have been doing for their own people so they had to take out Hitler and Germany in case the dumb masses woke up and started to question why their corrupt governments were not doing the same. Google Paisley Expressions and the Jesus, Hitler and Wizard of Oz post on there just now exposing the TRUTH about Hitler, WW2 and how we have always been getting lied to. These Elites and our corrupt governments including Communist China are still conning the people with the same agenda today with all of the totally FAKE terrorism and totally FAKE virus pandemic as they try to destroy the worlds economy again just like they did in the 1920's with their DELIBERATELY created Depression in order to create their New World Order - One World Communist Government DICTATORSHIP and this is going to be soon Part 2 of that post on Paisley Expressions. And they have conned you all into thinking that it was Hitler that was trying to take over the world.
This has been a brilliant video Tino in seeing the insides of these places. You were being a bit sore on yourself in the video not showing how it was. The echo of sound would let you know what it was like.
I’ve only seen this today Tino, and I’ve loved the feel and sound of what this place was like. For those of us who have not been is bloody amazing! It’s a brilliant preserved area that should be like all bunker complex’s. Instead they blew them to hell and back again?
And this is your home country, in how it should be in preserving even a difficult time for the Danish people? No more destruction only preserving should be done like this!
Great job. Really appreciate you made the effort to find period authentic inset photos from the era and actual location, and even to note corrections your own audio narrative with on screen text. Very Credible.
Thank you the more I do the better they get that was the first year I started doing those I try :-)
Germans are the master race. Most superior people in the world.Thank you for showing me this beautiful place. I will visit these places.
Great restoration, I would love to visit in the future. It is amazing that by the end of WW2 these permanently installed artillery guns/cannons which was a standard of defenses and military tactics for 800+ years was a thing of the past. How quickly technology progressed by the end of the war.
It's time to go back tomorrow and look at the unexplored part of the complex and after that it's time to go to Norway and taking look at the big gun up there!! see you Saturday :-)
Germans have hardworking engineers army and it is amazing.
Thanks for sharing .......fascinating.
NICE THEY RESTORED AND MADE IT A MESUEM
Great movie. I know all locations since my childhood.Driving since the 70‘ one or two times each year to Jütland. As a child we digt for mag cases and cartridge sleeves in the sand and explored the bunkers which where not restored with our maglittes💪💪
That's exactly what I did when I grew up :-)
Me also. As a kid in the 1970s we used to look for spent bullets and cases in the sand dunes near the British Air Force base at Kinloss in Scotland. There were also lots of abandoned concrete bunkers, concrete block tank-traps and sometimes we found bits of sand bags or barbed wire. The same war but on the other side of the sea.
Mole Catcher 💪🏻😀
@@molecatcher3383 : Always more spent and live ammo, and gear, to be found in mainland Europe than UK.
@@suzyqualcast6269 Where I found my bullets and cases was only used for training. There was no real fighting done on the ground there.
You have to come to Kristiansand in Norway! here we have one of these mega cannons still working where you can walk inside it too! its in Møvig, they even recently painted it in the original camo and colors!
I'm actually planning on doing that very thing so many of you from Norway wrote I'm going to have to bring my new camera up there as soon as we can all travel
frank and honest , yes that's how id like to see my history , subscribed
the construction and operation is actually amazing
Thank you
Sort of an off beat example why German cars to household coffee bean grinders are so suburb. Thank you Tino.
Good stuff Tino. Thanks for posting . Denmark is a Gorgeous place . I would hate to have to mow the grass on that terrain though! Thanks again dude !
THIS WAS THE FIRST OF MY WW2 BUNKER VISITS. SINCE i HAVE DONE SERIES ON THE EAST WALL, LOTS OF MILITARY Q/A EPISODES WHERE YOU HAVE ALL WRITTEN ME QUESTIONS. ALSO ONE MORE VISIT TO HANSTHOLM AND i HAVE SEVERAL MORE SERIES COMING THIS WINTER - PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AND FOLLOW SO I CAN KEEP MAKING MORE FOR YOU ALL.
Time 22:48 the Bunker which has been blown up, has been used to blown up old ammunition by the defense, because it is so badly damaged is because the Navy blasted an excessive amount of old ammunition in it. The explosion was so powerful that it tore up the wall (1½ meters, or 6 feet wide). It happened a few years ago.
And it still doesn't look like it's going anywhere
Absolutely awesome!!! Thank you sir!
Thank you
This guy really has it going The enthusiasm of Huell Howser and the personality of Jordan Schlansky.
Except Huell would know to take a flashlight when spelunking.
@@rapskallion alright already with the flashlight LOL I did it so you could get a true sense of how it was to stumble around in the dark with pieces of rubble falling on your head sort of like putting on a virtual reality headset and I have somebody sporadically hit you with a bat LOL I got a lot better equipment since then after all this videos actually quite old :-) but thank you just wait to see what I drag out of Europe in a few months
Just by chance stumbled on this, must say big thumbs up 👍
Thank you
Fantastic video on old war history. I have seen your war movies. Now I am happy to see your documentary on the places where war was conducted. Really superb. When you visit India, you please contact me, I will show you the historical places in South India.
You are absolutely on my friend thank you so much and a lot more videos coming up in the next few months when I get back to you or to do some filming
Somewhere there is beer , sounds like a must go place to have a beer and see a super fascinating bunker system, thanks Timo for another great vid Thanks 🙏🙏
Any time!
Thanx for a nice video 👍
The place at 28:41 was probably a place for an AA gun, like the 88. The small bunkers around would have been for ammunition and were perhaps walled up after the war. Some of the bunkers have been used for training firefighter from the CF. Also one of the 38 cm bunkers has been used for that (the most eastern one). Some of the open placements were used for the 17 cm until the closed bunkers were built.
This was truly fascinating, I have never seen this before.
This is a very incredible place. I have seen it before with the WW2HISTORYHUNTER. I have been following him for a while. I look forward to watching more of your videos.
I was hoping to travel to Poland to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau ant then to go to Dresden Germany to visit relatives that decided to stay in 1933. So I could find out more about my great grandfather who served in the German navy in WW1 as a WO witch is like the executive officer just under the captain But those plans had to be put aside for now. Maybe next summer. I will get there.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing. 🇩🇰
Thank you for saying so
What amazes me is how fast they built them bunkers it was sept of 39 they attacked Poland and by D day of june 44 they had all that built, armed and ready
You have a great way of showing History.
I love learning about WW2 .
You have opened up my mind to a whole another level.
If you what i mean?
Enjoyed your video and point you showed. I was stationed in the U.K, for four years and after I bought a car I was able to tour the country side and visit many of the old RAF and USAAF bases. Many were overgrown and the building falling down. But surprisingly enough some were still in fair shape with the tower and other facilities still standing. I had a Bounty Metal Detector and snooped around some of the areas to see what artifices I might run across. Found a few items
of interest and turned them over the the authorities with information on when and where I discovered them. Fortunately they did not rip me a new one nor
charge me since I discovered that I was not supposed to have a metal detector on the property.
You know what they say rules are guidance for the wise and obedience for the fools LOL if it wasn't for historians Taking Chances we would never learn anything :-) one day I would love to do a comparison between the bunker structures of the Germans and of the allies if you have any pictures of videos I would love to see :-)
Tino, I know you are a strong man be safe please while walking in these places.
Thank you but on the other hand if I slipped in a particularly amusing way and had to be Medevaced to a hospital I'm pretty sure that would double the raitings LOL not to worry but thank you for caring
@@tinostruckmann Besides my previous comment is that I really like the way you presented it and how you explained it.
@@kylofoster5560 thank you
Amazing. I MUST go there.
More to come ...stand by
Very well done, Tks. You mentioned Ft MacArthur, use to go there for ROTC rifle training at the range. Would shoot right over the ocean. Late 60’s, early 70’s.
Really I shot a couple movies out there. Do you have any pictures from back then I would love to see them I'm sure so would everybody else
Greetings-I don’t have any photos of that, wish I did. Don’t remember a lot, except qualifying expert on the M 1 and wondering how many yachts got hit by stray bullets. Agree with you on trying to keep authenticity on WW II film. Just watched a documentary on shooting down Yamamoto. I swear they used every bit of file footage of any type of plane available to portray P38’s
@@davidweston6653 oh the joy of regurgitating stock footage
Nice site , amazing military installations
This is better than History channel crap 😂!
Honestly I have to agree thank you it is just sad to see how the mainstream channels have dumbed down their content
I don't exactly know what you call crap, but there are a lot of very interesting history channel stories that are very interesting and informative.
Calling every history channel crap is pure stupidity.
@@rickwhite4137 the problem we are having with mainstream historical programming is it is no way near in depth it never covers all sides of a story and usually it sprinkled somewhat with a bit of bias which in some cases I can forgive but if you claim to be doing accurate history programs you have to paddle down the middle another problem is the constant repetition of what the program already covered independent historians and documentarians that you see here can just take the story and move it forward because they respect Their audience knowing that they can remember what they said 15 minutes ago in the show to me what I am seeing on TV is catering to the basic 10 year old there's very little to be learned it is not sophisticated and in-depth and it seems sensationalized and commercialized with an agenda for the most parts and that is frustrating if you watch these shows hoping to learn something you did not know of course if you know nothing and is starting from scratch learning history you know like the average college student LOL obviously these shows have a place
@@tinostruckmann When you refer to TV, I'm afraid you refer to American TV.
I don't understand people are watching any of these TV channels.
You will find some real good history channels on UA-cam
@@rickwhite4137 now that is correct, American mainstream is far more mindless then European.....for now:-(
you should visit the sister battery in Kristiansand there is still the cannon.
the cannon was so powerful that it could shoot almost half way to Norway and many houses were cracked and missing windows after test shootings.
a few years ago I was in one of the ammunition piles they are huge.
I was actually planning on a full month tour with proper equipment to document a lot of these sites in Norway Belgium Germany Poland and then somebody got the flu and screwed up my plans LOL but I will as soon as this is over
Tino Von Struckmann yeah and the Adolf Cannon in Harstad, North Norway. And the Akershus Festning, Oslo, where they sank The Blucher in Oslofjord.
@@RichardGjerdin is that still there? I thought that I've been dismantled that would be an awesome story I have to go do a story on that and film it you are right I'm guessing the wreck is too deep to dive on?
I have a question for all by Norwegians does any of you have any information about the heavy German planes that were supposed to be stationed in Oslo towards the very end of the war?
Great video. Much appreciated.
Amazing presenter and presentation.
Thank you
Incredible restoration
Like your perspective on history. Not one sided as many try to tell. Bravo on this video. I will subscribe. Hope you still do these. as I see this is form 2017. Best Wishes.Dominic
Thank you take a look at the military history q and A's I'm doing I am trying to be balanced with history it's the only way :-)
GREAT VIDEO MAN, THANX!!!
Thank you I try
The Germans were far advanced. Incredible. They were amazing
sure, but then they put meth in chocolate so they were bound to get shit done.
Wait till you see our UFOs!!!!
Excellent video
So interesting. Love his videos. Thanks for sharing
Oh your the guy who makes movies! I like your work.
Thank you yes I guess I am that guy LOL
Tino Von Struckmann cheers.
when everyone catches your smile, the world will be a better place
as long as they catch me smiling its all good
Appreciate your mature narrative of this amazing piece of history. History hunter is sometimes ‘over enthusiastic’ for people over 10 years old😉
You know what over-enthusiasm is it right thing considering I live in grey solemn sarcasm LOL
Dude you are awesome! I've been following you for a good time now. And you never disappoint. I've always been fascinated with german bunker and subterranean defense systems the Germans have made.
I think you do a much better job showing us history than the historyhunter , you show before and after pictures well done .
Thank you I always thought he and I should do something together I suggested it as I'm shooting up in Norway :-)
Brilliant video, thank for doing this, very well presented 👍
Thank you I try I hope you enjoy the long version and maybe the Q&A I do also
** I saw France,passed it on the way to Spain, Spain was beautiful, went to the Spanish beach area along the Mediterranean Sea ! * Lovely !
Thanks for sharing!
Very nicely done! I liked the perspective and yes, of course, history is never black and white, and context is critical. You really don't get "the historical color" or the context unless you visit. Thank you for your attention to the details that make it historically and culturally interesting.
Thank you so much for saying so I try
With all the waste plastic, it would be nice to have a replica of the big cannon made to give people a better perspective. Even of the crane you mention that was needed for the cannon.
I completely agree but that goes hand-in-hand with the destruction of so many of those historical locations there's an identical bunker 500m from it and they covered it up completely with dirt it's very very sad
Tino Von Struckmann well, atleast they didn’t blow it up.
I live near the atlantikwall in the Netherlands and a lot of bunkers were blown up :-(
Luckily the ones that still remain are taken care of very well.
@@rick1827 very true...I look forward to coming out an see what is left out there, its been to long since I was there
Tino Von Struckmann i’d recommend going to “festung holland” theres a bunker with a flak 8,8 and another one with a pak40,
There is also the fort itself which is Dutch from before ww2, it has quite an interesting story. While turning its turrets inland to fire at landing aircraft and paratroopers during the invasion in 1940 by germany the rotating mechanism broke.
Sadly there is no big guns left apart from the turrets.
Great production, well done.
Thank you I got a better camera since :-) working on the big bunker Q&A now
Great work !!!
Well done
One of the best, thank you.
Hello from Brazil! Very good video!
Living history is priceless!
Mate just watched this how fantastic this was. I’ve read slot of history of the war. And I agree it annoys me that people just use wha ever footage w s facts they want. More of these clips plz. I do t have the ability to see this history myself but live watching these clips on history.
you should visit batterie "theo" in norway. it has the only functioning 40cm german land-based artillery left in the world. the guns were planned to be used on new german battleships, but they decided to use them for coastal artillery instead. they are the largest land-based coastal artillery ever made. if they want to they can fire it today. sadly the area they are in is still military, so you can only get guided tours, but man is it worth it. it lies just outside harstad in northern norway. across the "west fjord" is batterie "dietl" in steigen. here you can explore freely and see how such a battery was organized
I absolutely I want to I love Norway I haven't been there for a few years I think my UA-cam Buddy World War II history Hunter did the video from there? But they're still nothing like seeing it myself.
When you said functioning they don't happen to fire it every now and again do that?
@@tinostruckmann no they havent fired it since the late 40s i think.. i heard a local story about them firing it over a nearby island and the schockwave/soundwave from the grenades shattered all the house-windows in the vicinity. me and my two best friends have an annual camping trip to batterie dietl every summer. we camp on top of the command bunker
(regelbau s-100, one of two ever built i think) and enjoy the magnificent view of the lofoten wall across the fjord (we also get massively drunk and have a good time) ;-)
Thank you:-)
@@niklas2378 maybe we could sneak a blank in there:-)
Wow fantastic . Great job on the presentation.
You make great vids and you are correct primary sources are the best being able to read the original documents is a must problem is some one writes a book gets something wrong then next writer reads said book writes his own book repeats bad info soon it is accepted as fact
Oh yes the eternal history issue everybody quotes everybody else, I do try to visit the sites without to much information and just let the location tell me what is there.
This might is the first time watching one of your videos and I am amazed by your narrative and the location so thanks for the video. Liked n' Subscribed. Cheers
Thank you
Cannon pit would be the perfect Place for a Rave, New Genre, Fortress Trance. 😀
I was led to your site by HistoryHunter's film on the Norwegian gun bunker! I'm now subscribed and I'll be following you from now on!
Thank you so much he's a great guy with a little luck I will be up in Norway in two days I want to see what he is hiding up their there :-)
Great job! These bunker vids really drive home what a staggering amount of energy was put into humans killing humans.
And one of the first I did, take a look at the episode from Norway the cannon is still in place there.
What did they do with the very large gun in footage 5:25 when your in the inside of the ring? Did the locals cut that rifle down and melt or did they dismantle and roll into sea?
At the very opening of the video there's a large barrel that is the original Barrel everything else was melted it down or not installed
Great video, Tino 👍
Iam on the way as soon as possibale..love history and to explore cant wait..fair play buddy for posting it...keep the great work up...D
Glad you enjoyed, will do:-)
Have you seen the Film "Under the sand" It fits really good to this Bunkersystems-Denmarks seaside was the most infected sides with mines.When war was gone they keept a large group of really young soldiers-a lot of them wasnt elder than 15-16 years,to remove all the mines.This was a crime after the Geneva Conventions.A lot of them died there.
I knew the historian who advised them on that movie and he was very dismayed that they took it too many Liberties in the storytelling :-) my grandfather was around 4 that unfortunately he no longer is alive to tell the story anymore but it's a good movie still and it brings highlight to another part of a sad time
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Couldn't agree more!
Awesome video, so interesting. Fantastic your government have restored part of this amazing complex. Love to visit one day. 👍🏻👌🏻🖐🇦🇺
Oh the government didn't do it it was done by donation and private funding
@@tinostruckmann wow, that's incredible, thanks for sharing. 👌🏻👍🏻
awesome!
Tino Struckmann is (The) authority on this subject. You can take what he says in his videos as 100% researched material. Nobody knows more.
Thank you so much for the very kind words however I will say there's a lot of people that knows a lot more :-) but I will always try to give you the most information that I can possibly research myself to from the best possible sources and my honest conclusion from what I see :-)
@@tinostruckmann Thank you for your modest response.