Adventure + ice cream = happy historian :) The museum employee did a nice job tying in the human factor too. With all the work the locals contributed to building this site it only makes sense they are preserving its history.
@@ageingviking5587 There are 31 flavors, so choose a month with 31 days and eat a flavor daily. Just remember to reschedule your annual physical. The less the doc knows the better.
@@rhondaharrell4828 but, there are not enough months with 31 days , I'll stick with my method of only eating ice cream on days that end with a *(Y)* :-) Also it's really hard to lie to my Dr while standing on his digital scale .. I eat pretty clean most of the time wbeing the exception so it doesn't do too much damage ...*(YET)*
Nicely done Tino . It's gorgeous over there... Looks like they take very nice care of the tracks and have a nice snack shop to sell you ice cream so maybe they will consider some hand truck rentals so you can pump your way up and down the tracks from point A to point B.... Thanks again Tino!
Always great to see presentation of lost historical sites and equipment used. My question for anyone is...what became of these large guns and other weapons in the pits and bunkers at all of the sites?
The vast majority of them were simply scrapped after the war for the metal some of them set on Proving Grounds and literally laid around decaying until years later somebody rescued and restored them for museums
Thank you for the response your show is terrific my parents WW2 veterans got married in France during the war my mom was a highly decorated surgical nurse. Both my parents were US army veterans I was very lucky to have great parents I don't know if you've done any shows on the emplacements in the US but I'd love to see something showing along the Eastern Seaboard like around Sandy Hook with all the emplacements to protect New York that be great. I have trekked through many of them as you are doing in your show and the shows on the Maginot Line and how they've renovated and preserved the history was very impressive. Keep up the good work
Nothing better than a wartime romance:-) I love it - always wanted one lol. I will be going to the East coast at some point once I get back and have gotten somewhat of a handle on everything I will be shooting. So yes:-)
Probably the lower part of the mess hall were the kitchen(s) Interesting though how the foundation of the hall floor is "mazed" like it is. Maybe the mess hall foundation was also used to store dry food goods and/or housed a water store. Was there a doorway from the mazed part to the concrete floored/roofed/patio part ?
The Germanic people are so incredibly industrious, logistically gifted and downright fierce warriors; these traits have been passed through generations and the more I learn about WWII the more I realize that it took an effort of monumental proportions to screw up and loose the war. I have the thought that if the Generals and military were simply left to do their jobs without interference from those who thought that they knew better then this would be an entirely different world today. This video shows but a small part of the machine that was Germany in the 1930s and 40s. The only person who could stop the German machine was essentially its leader and that is the very definition of irony. To be certain, the allies had to stand up against Germany and that in and of itself shows character but ultimately Germany's leader won the war for the allies and its just that simple. It was pure luck that we made it off of those beaches on June 6th, almost as if someone had arranged for the events that transpired to occur. Its like some science fiction novel... how many times did we have to rewind time and take a "redo" before it happened the right way? Normandy was an impossible scenario and the only way for the Germans to fail would be if someone was told not to act unless the leader gave the instructions and when the leader is asleep not to awaken him. If Hitler would have gone to bed 4 hours earlier or simply left his Generals do their job in the first place then Normandy would have been a complete failure. Almost unbelievable..
My geandmother lived in Møvig back under the war, she was just a little girl, but she told me stories that they gave the russian prisoners food and stuff like that, she also had a christmas tree ball that she got from one on the prisoners.
Norwegian armed forces used lots of these fortresses up until the early 2000`s. There are some forts here in Norway that are in remarkably good condition. I were at festung dønnes last yr. Looks just like it were left 70+ yrs ago. I can recommend you map out some of the bigger sites between Trondheim and Bodø and make a visit. Most definently worth it. Look up: HKB 20./974 Dönnes in google maps and you will see some of my photoes from last yr.
Well Tino what is reassuring is that Norway too has a Health and safety culture and I bet that they have lost the keys!! Wouldn't it be Grand if they got that big Beast working again!!! It would be an awesome sight seeing that thing lighting up the night sky and hear its huge Cash as it fires I know theyre a bit PC over there but it would be truly something or even the one in Denmark at Hanstolm nice one anyway keep em coming!DG
Appareantly it wasn't demonstrated at his visit, but the gun is still fully operable (ie it can traverse and elevate) powered by the original german generator and electrical installations (the same goes for the restored 40.6 cm museum gun at Trondenes).
@@havardhovdet9217 Thankyou its kind of reassuring to know that things like that are still operational...i would still love to see them fire all the same!
x Mr Struckmann, this flat rock formation on the road in the forest it may be also the natural local formation. Similarly looks the local methamorfic rocks - mainly paragneiss - after grinding by glacier, which receded just only 10 000 years ago. To recreate this small quartz white veins artificially, it would by very troublesome for Germans. It is created by 1-3 km thickness glacier moving over it by millenia. But it is only possibility, not for sure. In Sweden some distance from this place in the place named Tanum, the neolithical peoples on such the smooth surfaces, smoothened by glacier, carved the figural presentations from their life : very brutal ones. When I was asking the local museum supervisor whether their life was really so brutal, ( ax , spear, knife, man killing) he explained me that we shall look at it as the presentation of daily fight with the forces of nature which were against them. There is a lot od such smoothened " bread loafs" massives on west coast of Scandinavia. Stary
You are correct, I am constantly amazed at what nature can create. on the same token I have been surprised at what people can make that looks like nature. I always wanted a geologist to visit some of these places with me
@@tinostruckmann :I am not taking the active part in war -but I am interested in military technology development during the war and I see that Your reports are the most exact ones. Thank You for that. This both sites in Norway and Danmark were made of ready blocks, tailored only for the locality, but some details can be noticed: 1- the amunition to 380 mm canon bunkers were allowed in Vaara battery by separate carts to inside, on oposite site whole the train was allowed inside- and it was the development. 2 I think, that this straight corridor finished with the window in Vaara battery was intended for removing the empty shells ( artillery cases) from the canon outside. On opposite site the train could take it out. 3-I have seen some longitudinal steel parts bolted to the big barrel of main canon and I am not sure whether it is for camouflage mounting or for something else. 4-This Tycho de Brahe was observing the stars , collected and gave it to his continuator Johannes Kepler who published 3 so called Kepler's law of planet motion-basing on the Tycho's meassurements. But Tycho was needed to the king, because his majesty wanted to know the future, which make easier his decision making process and Tycho probably read the work of Claudius Ptolemeus "Tetrabiblos" -from II century AD from Alexandrian Library- who described there the method of horoscopes preparing for men from the birthday date and the actual stars location - as babylonians did it. 5-the nature observing is very interesting but the more acurately we watch, the more details is coming out- until the Heisenberg's uncertainty rule cutting out the possibility of any further matematical decsription of reality. Inner parts of black holes are out of the possibility of exploration. From the big scale- where the Space expanding with the rate higher than light speed, also we are not able to describe it matematically. And all the part more distant than 14 bilions of light years are not visible to us. So the Science is having some serious limitations and we need to remember it, when we are telling about the biggest or smallest things- or of the Space as the whole. Stary
They lock you out of everything interesting. But, thanks for showing or telling us about videos inside simular places! Maybe they should provide tours by appointments to the public even for a fee. (some guides haven't kept their appointments with you in the past. Lol :) ) Comically, I see a vision of a Toy Story meme of Buzz Lightyear pointing upward and saying "Locks everywhere". Lol :)
The 16 inch Rifle up by what used to be Leningrad was mounted on test mounting as they where testing their 16 inch barrel which would have out fitted the new Russian Battleship (that was never finished) but the Barrel its self from what I remember took over a year to make (barring in mind Russia was working it out by themselves as neither the USA or Britain was going to be happy with Russia having that Caliber of barrel) but during the siege of Leningrad it apparently fired 37 shells during the siege an was used mainly on high priority targets
You are correct and one day I will make my way up there to take a closer look at the battle for and siege of Leningrad. And Drach you need to do a special on the Russian Battlefields on the drawing boards
@@tinostruckmann is that the one they call the "Adolfkanone?" I have a book about it by a Norwegian guy that was translated into English. There is a museum there as well.
I don't know how you Mike your videos but you may want to have the type that you wear so you don't have to talk as loud so there's less Echo and we can understand you a little better
@@tinostruckmann your knowledge along with History hunters enthusiasm might be the beginning of a super duo, let me know if you want to know about naval stuff, I am a 20 year squid and i would love to share and shoot the bull, Bud.
So interesting! Learning a lot. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi,as I seemed to be subscribe and watching the latest vid I am know watching your old stuff,keep up the good work,thanks,
Thanks for the sub! and welcome to the party
Thankyou for another interesting tour your the best Tino
Your a squared away gentleman
why thank you that is one of the nicer things one can say about a man:-)
Love the channel. Learned so much today watching. Many Thanks. Great Job!👍🏻
Glad to hear it!
Thanks so much for sharing your fantastic experiences with us great stuff 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Adventure + ice cream = happy historian :)
The museum employee did a nice job tying in the human factor too. With all the work the locals contributed to building this site it only makes sense they are preserving its history.
Ice cream is everyones happy place :-)
@@ageingviking5587 Did someone say ice cream !?!?!?! ☺
@@rhondaharrell4828 I love it , I have a tough time choosing at Baskin Robbins
@@ageingviking5587 There are 31 flavors, so choose a month with 31 days and eat a flavor daily. Just remember to reschedule your annual physical. The less the doc knows the better.
@@rhondaharrell4828 but, there are not enough months with 31 days , I'll stick with my method of only eating ice cream on days that end with a *(Y)* :-) Also it's really hard to lie to my Dr while standing on his digital scale .. I eat pretty clean most of the time wbeing the exception so it doesn't do too much damage ...*(YET)*
Thanks again for sharing this great video sir.
Anytime I hope you enjoy them all :-)
Lost Battlefields w Tino Struckmann i enjoy watching all ur vlog. but i didnt yet finish 😀
Nicely done Tino . It's gorgeous over there... Looks like they take very nice care of the tracks and have a nice snack shop to sell you ice cream so maybe they will consider some hand truck rentals so you can pump your way up and down the tracks from point A to point B.... Thanks again Tino!
That's a good idea that would be fun actually
@@tinostruckmann I thought it may be fun too. You can also take a few more provisions along .
@@ageingviking5587 I don't have time to stop and eat when I want to see history :-)
@@tinostruckmann We all saw the ice cream cone . Imagine the time you would save if you didn't need to stop and wait for someone to sell it to you :-)
@@ageingviking5587 you will notice some of the commentary is with my mouth full of ice cream LOL
Always great to see presentation of lost historical sites and equipment used. My question for anyone is...what became of these large guns and other weapons in the pits and bunkers at all of the sites?
The vast majority of them were simply scrapped after the war for the metal some of them set on Proving Grounds and literally laid around decaying until years later somebody rescued and restored them for museums
Thank you for the response your show is terrific my parents WW2 veterans got married in France during the war my mom was a highly decorated surgical nurse. Both my parents were US army veterans I was very lucky to have great parents I don't know if you've done any shows on the emplacements in the US but I'd love to see something showing along the Eastern Seaboard like around Sandy Hook with all the emplacements to protect New York that be great. I have trekked through many of them as you are doing in your show and the shows on the Maginot Line and how they've renovated and preserved the history was very impressive. Keep up the good work
Nothing better than a wartime romance:-) I love it - always wanted one lol. I will be going to the East coast at some point once I get back and have gotten somewhat of a handle on everything I will be shooting. So yes:-)
You're working overtime. Ready for this one too.
I am trying to prepare for leaving to film for a few weeks and I have to make sure you are all well taken care of while I am out of the office
@@tinostruckmann greatly appreciated. Destination ?
@@rhondaharrell4828 Tennessee to film a pickup for my new movie and Wisconsin film with Harley-Davidson for 3 days
@@tinostruckmann let me buy you a beer when you come to TN :)
@@rhondaharrell4828 that might be entirely possible
Probably the lower part of the mess hall were the kitchen(s) Interesting though how the foundation of the hall floor is "mazed" like it is.
Maybe the mess hall foundation was also used to store dry food goods and/or housed a water store. Was there a doorway from the mazed part to the concrete floored/roofed/patio part ?
The Germanic people are so incredibly industrious, logistically gifted and downright fierce warriors; these traits have been passed through generations and the more I learn about WWII the more I realize that it took an effort of monumental proportions to screw up and loose the war. I have the thought that if the Generals and military were simply left to do their jobs without interference from those who thought that they knew better then this would be an entirely different world today. This video shows but a small part of the machine that was Germany in the 1930s and 40s. The only person who could stop the German machine was essentially its leader and that is the very definition of irony. To be certain, the allies had to stand up against Germany and that in and of itself shows character but ultimately Germany's leader won the war for the allies and its just that simple. It was pure luck that we made it off of those beaches on June 6th, almost as if someone had arranged for the events that transpired to occur. Its like some science fiction novel... how many times did we have to rewind time and take a "redo" before it happened the right way? Normandy was an impossible scenario and the only way for the Germans to fail would be if someone was told not to act unless the leader gave the instructions and when the leader is asleep not to awaken him. If Hitler would have gone to bed 4 hours earlier or simply left his Generals do their job in the first place then Normandy would have been a complete failure. Almost unbelievable..
My geandmother lived in Møvig back under the war, she was just a little girl, but she told me stories that they gave the russian prisoners food and stuff like that, she also had a christmas tree ball that she got from one on the prisoners.
Ice cream for breakfast...what a life... ;-)
Nice
Thanks
18:50 Are you trying to tell me it's not normal to travel with a sledgehammer and a plasma torch?! :D
Haha nahhh, amazing work as usual!
I found it completely normal lol almost nobody at airports question such things lol
Norwegian armed forces used lots of these fortresses up until the early 2000`s. There are some forts here in Norway that are in remarkably good condition. I were at festung dønnes last yr. Looks just like it were left 70+ yrs ago. I can recommend you map out some of the bigger sites between Trondheim and Bodø and make a visit. Most definently worth it.
Look up: HKB 20./974 Dönnes in google maps and you will see some of my photoes from last yr.
Well Tino what is reassuring is that Norway too has a Health and safety culture and I bet that they have lost the keys!!
Wouldn't it be Grand if they got that big Beast working again!!! It would be an awesome sight seeing that thing lighting up the night sky and hear its huge Cash as it fires I know theyre a bit PC over there but it would be truly something or even the one in Denmark at Hanstolm nice one anyway keep em coming!DG
just be glad the headline in the local paper did not read : mad WW2 historian tries to board ferry with stolen German 88 lol
Appareantly it wasn't demonstrated at his visit, but the gun is still fully operable (ie it can traverse and elevate) powered by the original german generator and electrical installations (the same goes for the restored 40.6 cm museum gun at Trondenes).
@@havardhovdet9217 Thankyou its kind of reassuring to know that things like that are still operational...i would still love to see them fire all the same!
Love your videos.....
x Mr Struckmann, this flat rock formation on the road in the forest it may be also the natural local formation. Similarly looks the local methamorfic rocks - mainly paragneiss - after grinding by glacier, which receded just only 10 000 years ago. To recreate this small quartz white veins artificially, it would by very troublesome for Germans. It is created by 1-3 km thickness glacier moving over it by millenia. But it is only possibility, not for sure. In Sweden some distance from this place in the place named Tanum, the neolithical peoples on such the smooth surfaces, smoothened by glacier, carved the figural presentations from their life : very brutal ones. When I was asking the local museum supervisor whether their life was really so brutal, ( ax , spear, knife, man killing) he explained me that we shall look at it as the presentation of daily fight with the forces of nature which were against them. There is a lot od such smoothened " bread loafs" massives on west coast of Scandinavia.
Stary
You are correct, I am constantly amazed at what nature can create. on the same token I have been surprised at what people can make that looks like nature. I always wanted a geologist to visit some of these places with me
@@tinostruckmann :I am not taking the active part in war -but I am interested in military technology development during the war and I see that Your reports are the most exact ones. Thank You for that. This both sites in Norway and Danmark were made of ready blocks, tailored only for the locality, but some details can be noticed:
1- the amunition to 380 mm canon bunkers were allowed in Vaara battery by separate carts to inside, on oposite site whole the train was allowed inside- and it was the development.
2 I think, that this straight corridor finished with the window in Vaara battery was intended for removing the empty shells ( artillery cases) from the canon outside. On opposite site the train could take it out.
3-I have seen some longitudinal steel parts bolted to the big barrel of main canon and I am not sure whether it is for camouflage mounting or for something else.
4-This Tycho de Brahe was observing the stars , collected and gave it to his continuator Johannes Kepler who published 3 so called Kepler's law of planet motion-basing on the Tycho's meassurements. But Tycho was needed to the king, because his majesty wanted to know the future, which make easier his decision making process and Tycho probably read the work of Claudius Ptolemeus "Tetrabiblos" -from II century AD from Alexandrian Library- who described there the method of horoscopes preparing for men from the birthday date and the actual stars location - as babylonians did it.
5-the nature observing is very interesting but the more acurately we watch, the more details is coming out- until the Heisenberg's uncertainty rule cutting out the possibility of any further matematical decsription of reality. Inner parts of black holes are out of the possibility of exploration. From the big scale- where the Space expanding with the rate higher than light speed, also we are not able to describe it matematically. And all the part more distant than 14 bilions of light years are not visible to us. So the Science is having some serious limitations and we need to remember it, when we are telling about the biggest or smallest things- or of the Space as the whole.
Stary
Nice work
They lock you out of everything interesting. But, thanks for showing or telling us about videos inside simular places! Maybe they should provide tours by appointments to the public even for a fee. (some guides haven't kept their appointments with you in the past. Lol :) )
Comically, I see a vision of a Toy Story meme of Buzz Lightyear pointing upward and saying "Locks everywhere". Lol :)
Lol they actually have tours, and the little ammo train runs tourists now.
The 16 inch Rifle up by what used to be Leningrad was mounted on test mounting as they where testing their 16 inch barrel which would have out fitted the new Russian Battleship (that was never finished) but the Barrel its self from what I remember took over a year to make (barring in mind Russia was working it out by themselves as neither the USA or Britain was going to be happy with Russia having that Caliber of barrel) but during the siege of Leningrad it apparently fired 37 shells during the siege an was used mainly on high priority targets
You are correct and one day I will make my way up there to take a closer look at the battle for and siege of Leningrad. And Drach you need to do a special on the Russian Battlefields on the drawing boards
an in turn it talks about that gun mount
Hi, very good video. You have to visit 406mm schleswig-holstein battery at Hel penisula in Poland
'Why are you Bricking them up for me?" They knew that you were coming....... Hahahahah All serious this is cool and thank you Sargent!
I just have to learn to travel with heavy excavation equipment from now on, I will have no more of this secret keeping!! Lol
@@tinostruckmann Local munitions may want to help you out too bro :-)
@@tinostruckmann :)))
Fantastic video! Where is the 16 inch gun located that you will visit next year?
It is further up in Norway I should be able to get up there in a few months I have several invitations on my desk and I'm looking forward to it
@@tinostruckmann is that the one they call the "Adolfkanone?" I have a book about it by a Norwegian guy that was translated into English. There is a museum there as well.
@@kurttrzeciak8326 yes that is the one
Nice video.I will meet you in future.
Sounds like a plan to me. Im going back asap
Hahahahah I will meet you as soon as i am free.
If i would like to meet you.Where should i?
a little depressing that they closed up the entrances !!!! love your adventures though
I know there is a radio inside. and I still want to see it!
I don't know how you Mike your videos but you may want to have the type that you wear so you don't have to talk as loud so there's less Echo and we can understand you a little better
I know one of them is a bit low I have fixed for the new season no worries:-)
Get the keys!!!!!
Where is the link ?
I'm sorry what link am I missing?
@@tinostruckmann The link for the Norway bunkers that are kept up and opened
@@daveb5540 that is correct stand by let me see if I can't fix that and post it for you
tino, you have to hook up with WWII history hunter to do joint adventures, his only fault is his limited english
We are meeting up in May actually
@@tinostruckmann your knowledge along with History hunters enthusiasm might be the beginning of a super duo, let me know if you want to know about naval stuff, I am a 20 year squid and i would love to share and shoot the bull, Bud.