THE HIDDEN BUNKER IN AACHEN, EVERYWHERE IN THIS FOREST THERE ARE FADING SIGNS OF BATTLE
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- Опубліковано 23 січ 2021
- SOMEWHERE IN AACHEN FOREST THERE IS ONE SPECIAL BUNKER, LAST ONE OF ITS KIND, SO I WENT TO FIND IT. ALSO I WANTED TO BREAK DOWN THE BATTLE FOR AACHEN IN SHORT FORM BEFORE SEARCHING THE WOODS SURROUNDING THE CITY, THEY ARE FULL OF CLUES TO THE BATTLES FOUGHT THERE. AND SO DENSE ONE CAN LITERALLY STAND ON TOP OF A BUNKER OR FIGHTING POSITION AND STIL NOT KNOWING IT IS THERE..
SO COME WITH ME AND SEE WHAT I FIND.
AT THE END I DO STOP BY THE VAST CIVILIAN 4 STORY SHELTER IN TOWN, AMAZING BUILDING. - Розваги
My Grandmother lived on the Siegfried line in the Saar. I would play in the trenches and bunkers back in the 80's. We found helmets, bayonets , Nazi coins. It was Awesome !!
Oh I know, I remember growing up dinging stuff up too.
We have friends that live on the Saar, have visited them several times. Haven't found any artifacts, but have found a couple of bunkers, trenches in the wooded area behind their home and have explored several other ruins around their town.
Kannst Du mir einmal erklären, was Nazi coins sind? Ich habe ein Marmeladenglas voll mit Münzen des Deutschen Reiches und das idiotische Wort Nazi ist auf keiner zu finden.
Gorgeous scenery Tino. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
@@tinostruckmann very much!
Great day out, beautiful spot, and a good to good out to find a bunker,
Buddy I can hardly wait and I want to say congratulations and thank you. Cheers
You and me both! I wish I could have spent more time there though... but soon
@@tinostruckmann
Your awesome Tino I appreciate all your hard work and it shows with the quality of your videos. Take care and Stay Safe n' Cheers
Gorgeous forest. Thank you for sharing.I’ve been fortunate to have visited areas of Europe a few times. The history everywhere is awesome.
I know it is so sad how Germany is destroying its history.
Well that just made a sunday that much better! Very exciting 👌👌Tak endnu en gang Tino 👍
Anytime have to make sure just because I'm out filming I keep you entertained
Love these videos Tino, as you go looking for the history no one else shows. It’s crazy how the earth reclaims all of what was of before! These are the most distortion places you could ever be in before if you had no compass with you! It’s easy to get lost and hope it is all demarcation area with no mines🧐
I lived in Gießen for a few years near the old Luftwaffe base, and I'd go wandering through the bush occasionally, but I watched your other video of Maybach Zeppelin base, and from what you showed us with the old trenches, I come across regularly not realising that it was remnants of trenches from the second world war.
This is really cool shit.
Thank you for your efforts and time in researching to show people your discoveries of the past.
thank you for saying so, and keep walking in the woods - let me know what you find. At this point it is people like us who might actually find something.
Old Luftwaffe base near Giessen--where? Damn, I have cousins and an aunt living in Giessen--last time I was there was my honeymoon in 1990. I wish they had told me about that airbase! There was also a small Luftwaffe airfield near Eschwege (where my grandparents lived) that nobody mentioned when we visited. I saw a very poor quality photo online of the airfield that was definitely after the war--I could make out a jeep....but no way to determine where it was in relation to Eschwege.
Great explore. Really enjoy the channel.👍🏻
Glad you enjoy it! Im tryin
Tanks for Sharing well done👍👊🍀
thank you for coming by welcome.
@@tinostruckmann you doing good job specially Riese project that really interesting
One of those Bunkers would be a great House as long as you sort out Drainage ..an being in a Forrest would be awesome..
Try "bunker aachen" in Google Maps, and there seems to be some like Bunker 139/40, Bunker 132 and Bunker 135 quite close to each other. Love your videos - greetings from Finland!
Thank you so much for saying so there's a lot more in that Forest but one of you had tasked me to find that one
20:39 ਤੇ ਬਹੁਤ ਵਧੀਆ ਅਹਿਸਾਸ ਹੋਇਆ ਜੀ ਬੜੀ ਚੰਗੀ ਲੱਗੀ ਇਹ ਬੰਕਰ ਦੀ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਜੀ ਵੀਰੇ ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਬਣਾਉਣ ਦਾ ਤਰੀਕਾ ਬੜਾ ਸ਼ਾਨਦਾਰ ਲੱਗਦਾ ਹੈ ਇਕ ਮੂਵੀ ਦੀ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਅਸੀਂ ਕਦਰ ਕਰਦੇ ਹਾਂ ਤੁਹਾਡੇ ਜਜ਼ਬੇ ਦੀ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ ਜੀ।
I lived in Verlautenheide near Aachen when I was 11 and often explored the countryside and found 3 bunkers all of which were destroyed, one of them was on a hill in the open and nearby there was an old abandoned farmhouse with some fruit trees, it's still visible from Google maps. I also found an old .45 caliber shell casing wedged between the cracks in the sidewalk when I was coming home from school, still have it along with some fragments of concrete from the bunkers.
Dont you just love those little memories, I was digging around all my life too, there is nothing then awakening history interest but finding something :-) thanks for sharing
That hill is called Vetschauerberg?
Klasse gut huhuu schőn aus aachen an dich amazing gut
22:40 You are so right. I say that as an American who went to Europe (Deutschland, to be specific) for the first time at age fifty-one. It wasn't always easy, but I absolutely loved it.
When I start running tours you just come on out again with all of us and I'll do the Translating :-)
@@tinostruckmann Because I've been to Germany twice, I have quite a bit of experience in embarrassing myself as a clueless American. :-)
Not to worry too many Germans seems to have lost a sense of humor lately it must be them :-)
@@tinostruckmann The ones who matter to me know how to laugh WITH me about stuff.
@@OnkelPHMagee indeed as it should be
It would have been great to hear that veteran's story, but not everyone wants to make their private history public.
Sadly true
I know what you mean, my grandfather was in the Royal Australian Navy in the Mediterranean and later the Torres Straight. He never wanted to speak about his own experience from the war.
I actually heard more from my ex wife's grandfather about his experience in the Hitler Youth and his time in the Wehrmacht in the final days of the war.
KlKlasse gut huhuuu aus aachen an dich amazing gut L.g.walter
Thank you
You're welcome
My wife knows the general area quite well. During her 18 years service in the British Army, she spent the bulk of it based in and around Dusseldorf, Monchengladbach etc. Never a fan of just staying on the base, she'd visit surrounding towns in Germany & The Netherlands. She once got a detachment to a US base in Munich to see how good the GI's had life.
You'll like this Tino, Her job was in the postal / courier dept Royal Engineers, as then SGT she travelled in uniform the Berlin corridor train and visited East Berlin for the day. Obviously she stole the dining car menu as a keepsake. She is from Liverpool and a running joke in GB is Liverpudlians will steal anything not nailed down (they clearly can learn from the Soviets) this was before we met and now has mended her ways.
Now you have found one defensive bunker, it may prove useful for finding a couple more.
If you can get a grid / compass bearing on the center-line of the firing port(s) of that bunker and a "supporting" bunker may very well be on or near that line.
This is because, unlike in Hollywood, defensive machine guns are not sited to fire frontally on attacking troops, who are almost always advancing in "extended line". Theatrically swinging the MG left and right whilst clutching the trigger is a waste of good ammo and you may just hose down one of your own counter attacks going in. The "text-book solution" is to fire across the line of advance and thus, be firing enfilade along those advancing extended lines. This is another reason why MG "bunkers" often appeared in FRONT of the nominal "battle lines" and needed serious mutual support and the willingness to call down mortars onto their own positions if likely to be over-run.. It's all a complex, noisy dance of death. Also, adjacent bunkers will be doing much the same thing AND if assaulting troops get too close, they will pick up the phone / fire a coloured flare / smoke, to call for "danger, close" fire on and around their own position. In the noise and tunnel-vision of close combat, it is very difficult to pin-point the source of "distant" firing points. Throw Nebelwerfers, mortars and artillery into the mix and it gets really ugly. High-angle weapons like mortars and howitzers can "fill in the blanks" provided by "dead ground" that cannot be directly observed or fired into by flat-trajectory weapons.
For those on travels of discovery, a correctly oriented map / aerial / satellite photo etc can be used to plot these "vectors". If you get two "firing lines" that intersect and there is a big pile of soil and shrubbery nearby, it is probably hiding a buried bunker.
Also bear in mind that a decent machine gun on a well-maintained tripod on a concrete base, and sighted in with expensive surveying instruments is capable of consistently laying down a lot of nastiness at well over a thousand metres, often out to two thousand metres. A sudden hail of sub-sonic bullets falling almost straight down WILL ruin your day at the "office". The size and proportions of the beaten zone change with range, but the gunners, like mortar and artillery crews, will have tables to accurately calculate all of that and refine a fire plan.
And then there are "obstacles": dragons teeth, blown bridges, blocked roads,, minefields, barbed wire, etc. ALL such things are not primarily designed to directly cause casualties, but to "funnel" the advancing troops into "killing zones", which are always pre-registered DF tasks for every digger and his dog. And do not forget to maintain constant surveillance on the obstacles you have created; NEVER lay a minefield, mark it and wander away. You are simply leaving a store of goodies fot teh other side to recover and "recycle".
Grunt work 101!
All of this is old news to Tino, but not every reader here has been on, or even trained for, the two-way rifle range.
ha ha your friend is funny lots of tall trees in Europe hide alot of stuff there over 70 years ago..
No kidding - and under there
Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪
Hello Sweden looking forward to visiting again how are you all out there
Working and so on...
if you notice the bunker is in a hole ie never dug out they built the Siegfried line but never expected to use it .
There is a bunker under a mound of soil nr the vossenack crossroad i went to a reunion116th panzergrenader div and the US 28th Infantry Division at Schmidt some wild stories some brave men on both sides .
Can we get to it?
@@tinostruckmann i was taken there by a Dutch guy he had a map of all the bunkers I have not been there since the early 2000s the guys that run fort eben emal can probably get you there details if you have never bean to fort eben emal the guys that run it will give you the truth about the fort not the almost truth well worth a visit . like why there is a mising name on the monument to the forts defenders
Would be amazing to restore it, great piece of ww2 history
Beneath the cobblestones Tino there is probably hidden tunnels in a old city that has as much going on under as well as above sealed from those who are not welcome. As so much is missing it has to be in some of these places?
I really wanted to take the tour of that place, and go to the lower levels, but yes there is so much underground construction we are no longer able to see, especially under some cities
I visited the bunker...it was a amazing experience...
And there are a lot of them out there I look forward to going back
awsome videos.
Any chance you could create a public locations list for google maps? That would be super useful. Thanks!
Great suggestion! you are not the only one who have asked. I will try to clean up my Google sites and make them public in some way and share them. Until I get that done and you would like coordinates feel free to ask and Ill provide:-)
@@tinostruckmann Great. Thank you!
That deer family knows...
Those damn deer they are the keeper of the secrets lol
Well the narration really makes this so entertaining. Now if there would be just a name for a special mosquito that follows you across Europe...
... well I have a few names for him I promise you ... lol
We moved into our house, I now own in 1987. I found an unusual German device hidden in the basement. What I found out about it, is it's a compass used in the navigation system of a WWII German bomber. I also found a 1939 Nazi 10 pfennig coin.
Email me pictures I am curious:-)
Ah, a summer house. Would be a great place for you to visit your mosquito and spider friends.
Oh yes! and I will....
Too bad I didn't know you were that close to where I live.
There's a lot more to see beside that bunker.
You missed out on one of the last anti tank walls , the are only two of those walls left on the entire siegfriedline.
There are more bunkers ( demolished ) , one of them you can enter and some buried (still intact)
I'm gonna send you some pics and locations very soon ;)
Those concrete blocks at 7:00 are from a watchtower , there are some remains of another tower .(The Pelzerturm a former restaurant standing on the highest point in the Aachenerforest, it was destroyed and beyond repair)
I will be back for significant revenge in the spring than you can show me yourself:-)
@@tinostruckmann Then prepare for a long walk 7-8 hours with beautiful views
in the second world war aachen was for 80% destroyed bij the americans the were a lot of traps in the basements on the rooftop and in the sewers the geman army was commanded in that time by walther model. after the took aachen they had to go to the hurtinger forest were the west wall was. The American called the forest the dead factory.
Just ask the Burger Meister, Wunderung organizers or hiking clubs.
Memories of our last visit to Germany are flooding my mind. Love this. When we visited Dillingen in December 2019, our visit was heavily influenced by the history of WWII. We had seen many of the bunkers in Dillingen and were fortunate to tour one that had been restored a few years ago. This trip, we spent more time exploring the forest behind our friend's home and found the location of the bunkers on the hill. The icing on the cake and what your video reminded me of was the restored bunker 'Albert' in Beckingen. The the bunker you found in the forest had alot of similarities. If you are curious - this is a link to the raw cell phone video I captured on our tour - it is RAW.... ua-cam.com/video/N72eeBL5wsM/v-deo.html
YAY thank you so much, sorry it took so long to get to you:-)
Tino, I hope this makes you laugh. At time stamp 2:10 there is a tank going under a sign that reads "Aachen - Rothe Erde." Do you think this is where Bormann was buried? ;-) Now, I know I'm watching too many of your videos. Have a safe trip. I'm looking forward to all the new information you will bring back.
Ha Europaplatz :-)
You know it's a managed forest when the trees are in parallel lines/rows....those trees are less than 40 years old....
I know there would be no trees standing on a artillery and bombing range
i am living in aachen and i know the history about the fighting and bunkers and westwall in aachen and hürtgenforest area
SOOOO would you like to give me the tour when I come back?
@@tinostruckmann i can show you the area
Will there be more content about the "Westwall" in the future?
YES OH YES
The quest of seek and find. It's out there, somewhere. : )
Almost like The X-Files slogan :-)
@@tinostruckmann I never saw a single episode. Can't believe it.
@@rhondaharrell4828 I love the old X-Files with the poster in his office saying the truth is out there :-)
@@tinostruckmann That is truly spooky. I thought I coined the phrase , "careful the truth is out there. Its going to bite you. ". Been saying that for years. Maybe I didn't. Probably a subliminal message.
It’s Aachen not Archen
I know where did it come out wrong?
You'll know when you've found the Siegfried Line, as there should loads and loads of Tommies' undergarments hanging out on it..... Apparently.
If you talked and walked through any location I would watch.
Outstanding then we will get a long famously lol because I have just begun.
Is Struckmann a German name?
While you're attracted to the clearing, the Mosquitos are attracted to you.
I would attract mosquitoes in the Arctic under the ice in the secret Nazi base LOL
@@tinostruckmann HAHA! This I could see.
@@TheMachineRadioShow and with a little luck maybe I will film it this year LOL
@@tinostruckmann I would tag along as a helper but I hate the cold sir. On your own with that one.
@@TheMachineRadioShow all right you are not into those ice mosquitoes LOL I'm starting in Argentina and working my way down and over
Cheers Tino I have got to say I remember hearing that the American Division attacking this part had large earth moving Buldozers etc and they just buried Bunkers and concrete positions under tons of earth to make them inaccessible to the German Army in case of counterattack after all the amount of explosive needed to destroy them would as you know be enormous so all along parts of the line buried under the landscape there will be hidden bunkers still i presume but not accessible without big diggers etc Nice one though watching these vids is something that I look forward to seeing as they are a few mins escape from the current reality that we are in here in England i really don't think that European travel is going to be very easy for the foreseeable future for us unfortunately i reckon that unless one has had both vaccinations and can prove it you wont be able to go anywhere and as for when we will be able to get it thats the Billion dollar Question!! Takecare and keep doing what your doing its appreciated DG
Don't you worry if you guys can't go I will go for you until we can all start teaming up and going out together. All over Europe it has not yet been clarified okay just exactly how many bunkers were covered up during or right after the fighting they are still found from time to time I had a gentleman that wrote me about having some lost SS Maps I was hoping he would get back to me
@@tinostruckmann now old maps of positions would be very interesting indeed especially if they showed the various frontline defences where they had time to prepare they would be formidable hope this chap gets bk to you! Always look forward to your videos Tino keep Soldiering on! DG
@@danielgreen3715 what else is there to do I also got a special invitation to visit and film Bergkristall
Acchen not Archen is the correct pronunciation........No R
Thank you, I'm glad I was not the only one who noticed that. It was quite off-putting hearing him alternate between the correct
pronunciation and hearing what sounded like arkhum!
@@christopherlewis1315 A Merikans 🤣
Eroticly stimulated mosquitoes LOL
Why ever they do it it is not approved lol