WW2 German Bunkers, Jersey
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Following the occupation of the Channel Islands by the German Occupied Forces in 1940, bunkers and fortifications were constructed all around the coastline of Jersey.
The people of Jersey who chose to remain on the island lived under the German occupation for 5 years from 1940 to 1945 during WW2. Locals were given the opportunity to help build the Underground Hospital now known as the Jersey War Tunnels. These locals were treated well and paid a good salary. The Slaves who came from places like Russia and Spain and who built many of the fortifications around the island were forced to work beyond human endurance and treated cruelly by those in charge.
Today the Jersey Occupation Society aims to preserve these structures from the past and they open bunkers to the public on set days.
No hyped up commentary, no music. perfect.
Just came back from my first visit. The bunkers etc were amazing. Never expected that many.
I've been to Jersey six times and I've been in many of those bunkers.
The ones by cornered lighthouse and very interesting, when they are open!!
*Corbière 👌🏻
Excellent Video, Thanks CIOS for preserving. First time I went to Jersey on holiday was in July 1960, I was 12 years old and visiting the underground hospital was quite daunting. I remember it was a very scary place (OK I was only 12!). I last visited in the early 90s and it had changed a massive ammount with many more of the tunnels opened and painted. This video has wet my appetite so maybe another trip this year to co-inside with some of the open days at the other bunkers. Again to CIOS, well done for all the work you are doing.
It's definitely an eerie feeling down those tunnels, you can almost smell and hear the history, glad you liked the island! 🙂 🍻
God forsaken is the term your looking for. I won't go into the place even as an adult.
Chilling. No music. No commentary. Well done. Also chilling, D Day Through German Eyes (Book One & Two) by Holger Erkhertz. Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947 by Thomas Goodrich
Very hard to dispute a "real Bunker with armaments intact and disabled. very difficult for anyone to say it all never happened! Thank you, for the preservation.
Wow thank you for showing the bunkers in Jersey that’s where I was born but now living in Thailand
Oh wow I remember going in these bunkers when I was a lot younger with my parents while on holiday there I'm from South West Wales and seeing a big map of Swansea in the hospital bunker brings it all back, I do wish you did have commentary would have made this blog a lot better.
Great video even without any commentary...just frustrating to see so many locked doors!!!
Ever thought about this
If another war brakes out. The bunkers are ready to use again
Its just a mather of who yells dibs first
Enjoyed very much,lack of commentary not a problem,must have been frightening living there witnessing what happened to the slave labourers and knowing that the Nazis were ruthless and brutal.
It's better to leave commentary to knowledgable people like historians who know exactly what they are talking about. There is nothing worse than a visitor trying to add commentary for the sake of it..
I went there as a kid. Very cool place
I went to jersey in 1975 on holiday I was 8 walked out on a concrete sea wall near St Helier about 30 feet above the rocks and sat there on the end in my swimming trunks and nearly slid off the end, I managed to save myself on the third attempt by laying flat and clawing at the slippery concrete, still makes shudder now
Shane Huntley where is this location? France?
@@thepatriot8514 An Island between the UK and France. The Channel Islands
@@Tungstencube66 sounds beautiful
Thanks man. I went there as a kid, it smells like death
the germans build all these bunkers on the channel island but they were never used in the war only to tranport the wounded man from france during the invasion on the beaches from normandie
Can you tell me where the first bunker in the video is located, please?
I was there last year and visited quite a few sites, but don't recall seeing this one. I'm guessing that is it is one of the ones that are open to the public on certain days?
Great vid but maybe some titles for each opening scene would be good?
Thanks for posting!
Darren Hillman the first bunker on this video is at corbiere (near the lighthouse)
it is a K2 bunker that is down to the right hand side of the M19 mortar bunker at Strong Point Corbiere. check with the C.I.O.S website for opening times.
Holy Madonna
Wait I’m not at the history hunter channel lol
Metalmachine467 🤣🤣🤣🤣afraid not
If your not going to give a brief explanation then at least point the camera at the signs so we can pause & read them for the info ...
13:41
A head happears in the Dark, was it a Fresk?
Now i see it...
I have been checking my camera's SD card and it seems i took a bright and clear photo of this very room. The 'head' looks as if it has been created by a few streaks of paint so it's an optical illusion after all.
Actually I like it without the commentary! Thanks for sharing.
I apologize ahead of time, but where is Jersey? Brittian But a german bunker in brittian? Im confused! Must not know my geography/history.
I like your videos! Here in the US and some overseas bunkers I’ve seen have been totally stripped out, including copper wiring
Jersey is a small British island that was invaded by Germany during WW2. The island's people had no way of protecting themselves and were forced to live under German occupation.
14 miles off the coast of France.
you showed the air raid shelter at La Hougue Bie but you didn't show the German wooden barracks that the artifacts are show in. I believe the lack of commentary is due to you not knowing what you are filming.
That's correct. You have to be certain of all the facts before adding any type of commentary. I'm a UA-camr who is knowledgeable of the basics but I will leave the facts and deeper research to the historians.
Great video guy's
Lov jersy been there a amarzing place 😁
The bunker is nice to look at, but with 20 minutes of nothing but the sound of footsteps is very boring. You need to add commentary to what you are showing. Otherwise not bad.
I'm just a person with a camera arriving at a historic site with just the basic facts. Believe me there is nothing worse listening to a person struggling to add commentary for the sake of adding commentary to any subject without knowing the full facts.
elenwashere if you ever return to the island let me know. as I can give you a guided tour of St Helier pointing out various occupation buildings and facts.
Very nice that they or keeping history and not destroying it like here in the USA for a small Few! The bunkers look like they never fired a shot of got hit by anything
There was a whole lot of firing going on as they practiced, but none took any hits as the Germans surrendered without firing a shot.
People are still finding unexploded munitions on the beaches to this day.
🙂 🍻
The States had a go at knocking some down. Turened out to be to expensive.
Did they build an internment camp on Jersey?
no, they shipped undesirables off to the camps in Germany and Poland.
Nice place, nice movie, nice movie, magnificent 👍 👌 🏆 👀 I invite you to us, I leave my finger 🎥 👍 Greetings from Poland 🍷
Jeez ...how about some commentary even the Wood Pidgeon at 4.03 had more to say than the camera person!
I see a ghost in the Jersey channel islands bunker
UK had it bad. Nice not defaced with graphite
Good to see the that the idiots graffiti has been removed,,
Must have been a cushy posting for the Germans, better the the eastern front!
You'd think so,
It's said that while the older Germans knew war already and were well aware of the dangers of the Eastern Front, the younger guys were getting restless and wanted to see some action.
I'm with the older guys, 🍻
I heard a stiry from a old man, well he was when he told me. At 15 he was on the Russian Front and had pissed off his Seargent, or whtever the German equivalent is. An order came through 'Volunter for special mission. He got dumped. He said he cried, made out his will and prepared to die. Then got shipped to Jersey.