Because there are so many questions about what happens to the electrical equipment etc. here is the explanation: Between the escape of the Nazis (April 25, 1945) from Obersalzberg and the arrival of the American soldiers in Berchtesgaden on May 5, 1945, there were 10 days on which Obersalzberg was officially opened for looting by District Administrator Dr. Jacob. At that time, everything with a practical use for the local farmers was usable. Even the ceiling reinforcements were partially chiseled out to get some more construction steel. Therefore, all electrical equipment is missing. The paintings and objects of art were left behind in contrast, as you can see in our video of the 1st bunker inspection of the Americans at Obersalzberg. There you can still see the art collection and the record collection. After the officers' inspection, large parts of the bunker complex were closed due to the danger of collapse caused by the bombing in the previous weeks, and later the entrances were sealed. Until the time of our video. Greets
I guess the one thing I would worry about is air quality down there..also known as "Dead Air".. How do you know you have enough oxygen? Oh! My comment was premature..you call the fire department!😀
I understand that this history is dark, however I find it sad that Germany and other European nations are trying so hard to eliminate it! History is History without the dark side of it there would be no bright side of it neither!
Never destroy history unless you fully document and explore it. I wonder if any surviving member of the SS is watching this in disbelief. The scale and breadth of German bunker building is just breathtaking. This is haunting.
yeah, lots and lots of slave labor. Destroying history is a hallmark of the left. With no history they can indoctrinate youth and teach them whatever they want, as did hitler. Then society can do it over and over and over as the psychopaths see fit.
@@thelibrarian336 all i see is that your country, germany are going to collapse what ever remains for a train\bus station. sealing it forever. Instead of excavating it , the entire site and see what it is and how big this complex really is. US is the same, at the Golden Gate bridge, there was a base that protected the bay and surrounding areas. Some films were made in the parts but not in the bunker system that was there. Our friends took battlelanterns from our ship and drove his vw inside this bunker. It was amazing place. we went to the 5th floor and decided that we needed more equiptment gas meters and so on.. We came back a month later and went to the 10th floor where there were vast amounts of water thru out. They had living quarters, cooking and bathing, medical complete, radio rooms, ammo rooms etc. There were two 18 inch guns implacements out side along with 2 missle silo's that they would open once a month and rase them. Now its been demo'd and collapsed into the mtn side, and leveled off and now i beleive its the welcome center for the park.
Yes a majority of ss live in South America, and guess what they seem rather tall, I know. Up until recently I had a girlfriend that is living there in Ecuador with the last name of Dammer. That is a German name and she was born there in Ecuador but her parents left Germany to come to Ecuador to open up a beer business and this is her story. And she doesn't know anything beyond that as far as she's concerned she's Latino.
@@petewood2350 Not true. The stahlhelm was developed in WWI when Dr Friedrich Schwerd did a study on head wounds from shrapnel and then developed a helmet to protect the soldier's head effectively, while still being able to wear it while laying prone, not obscuring the vision or hearing, etc. He based the design on the 15th-century German sallet helm, which protected the head and neck more effectively than most helmets without being too heavy or bulky. The helmet design was then adopted by other German services, such as firefighters and civil defense, and the design was copied by other countries (Finland, Argentina, Switzerland, Nationalist China) because it offered better protection than most other helmet designs or because the Germans supplied them. The first kevlar helmet adopted by the US and later many other countries, the PASGT, is known as the 'Fritz helm' because the design was based on the stahlhelm. Similarly, the French Adrian helmet was developed in WWI and rapidly adopted by many countries and other services, such as fire fighters and police, but the Adrian helmet wasn't based on any pre-existing design. The British Brodie helmet was roughly based on the medieval kettle helm and mostly took that form because it could be pressed from a single piece of steel and was incredibly cheap to make. The stahlhelm, in one version or another, is still in use today because it's simply one of the best designed helmets in existence.
@@leelarson107 pretty much like most of the inventions and equipment the Germans used. Hence why America poached the Nazi rocket scientists to go and work for NASA and use their expertise in rocket propulsion.
While in Germany in the US Army in 1983-4 I was stationed in Augsburg and worked at the 'Field Station Augsburg' listening post. It was built over an old Nazi airfield. In a corner of the base was an old, fenced off group of buildings from the old Nazi base. Occasionally the gates were left open and we used to jog through the areas. I had heard rumors of an underground facility under the base so I started looking through the buildings. I crawled through steam tunnels and a few other access tunnels until one day I found something under the kitchens. Under the main mess hall there was a heavily built concrete basement and in that basement was a pair of armored doors that had been welded shut. They were not full sized doors but were only about half-height, like a dumbwaiter. When i shone a light through the crack in the doors there was a vertical shaft leading down, as far as I could shine the light it went straight down. I never could get past the welds so i never did get any further but something is definitely down there! It will be much harder to access now though as the year I rotated back they plowed down all those buildings. Some of it is still standing but the kitchens and bowling alley and old offices are all gone. The rumors I heard was that there were underground hangars and that there were still aircraft in them after the war and that the US Army had sealed them up because there were booby-traps. This place was a secure facility then so I could not get to the areas where the hangar entrances were supposed to be so i don't know if any of that was true or not. Maybe someday someone will be able to find a way down there... Good Luck!
Yes , obviously they were planning a long stay if things went their way in the war , I hope someone does get down there one-day , so good to see and learn about this , all the pre planning years before amazing , love this stuff.
If you're in the military and you get stationed over in Europe you will be stationed in a military installation that used to be a German installation or an installation of that country. I was stationed in Sicily that were affiliated to each other one was the air field the other base was where everybody lived. and of course there were stories that there was a tunnel from one base to the other and there was still tank tracks and tire tracks from military footprints still in there well think about it why wouldn't there be and it would see and it was a sealed shut but no one knows where these places the entrance to the Nexus of these places and went on to even say maybe there was equipment in there, which could be. Oh and by the way not only were the Germans in Sicily so were the Romans.. they're columned buildings were there. So think about it everybody if you're in the military you're going to a facility that's already been used as a old facility back in the day you think we're going to build new bases and forts just because we have arrived. No we're going to facilitate the facilities that the previous army built. So remember Europe is old you know how many armies have been through Europe since the beginning of time and you'll see remnants of it everywhere.the only reason it's tantalizing to us Americans is because here in America compared to Europe we don't have a history and the only War we had here in America was a civil war.
Doors welded shut, ? There has too be another entry point ! A one way entrance ? In , hard to believe! Nothing is built with only one entry point, soo , got to keep looking. ! If need be cut the welds . And go ! Or keep looking for the other entry . point , it has to be there ! One entry point is not logical, aircraft down there ? A bomb or a booby trap can be surched out and disabled Historic places should be surched out ! Close and ignore is not the answer. Ie . The Egyptian perimids !
I spent 30 days on guard duty at the General Walker and surrounding area in 1986. Had a great time exploring the grounds and areas the general public did not has access to. Went on the public tour but never knew until now what was under my feet. Too bad this is lost to history. Thanks for the memories.
Yeah I just posted a comment about how it’s messed up that they got rid of this. This is history good or bad and should have been preserved for future generations to see.
I'm astonished that the narrator said that the finds the diver brought up were "of no particular value." A WW2 collector would pay a small fortune for an SS helmet or the other objects with proof that they came out of an SS bunker on the Obersaltzberg.
I think perhaps the feller is speaking of the historical significance, eg. The finding of another gun and helmet dosn't further Our knowledge about the war or this bunker. I agree in terms of finance, its a very valuable find but these men look at it as historians would, not as collectors would.
The sheer magnitude of these bunkers is staggering. I’m absolutely fascinated and sad to see them closed off at the same time. This should be a clue that what you thought you knew about WWII was merely the tip of the iceberg.
I visited the Obersalzberg 3 years ago and there is still plenty of the bunker system still intact and accessible through the dokumentationzentrum. It is very impressive.
In modern time world war 2 is a vast history. Though the present world is not interested, but so much is still missing for the historians. The rise & downfall of Germany shall be a great lesson for the future belligerent nations. Nothing will be left for historians. It will be doom's day
Excellent video! I was a kid when we were stationed in Germany in the mid-80's, and stayed at the General Walker Hotel (formerly the Platterhof), and got to take a tour of several of the still intact bunker systems in the area, including the one attached to the hotel. Dad and I even took a walk down through the woods to see the ruins of the Berghof. We took a brick. My parents used it as a door stop for many years.
It boggles the mind to thing of the resources and manpower taken to construct this facility and the ventilation and sump pump systems required to make it usable.
My grand uncle was an army lineman and was sent into the obersalzberg right after the wars end to set up communications for the U.S. army head quarters there. He said that during his time there he talked to some kids who were in the volksturm and he said they said there were massive complexes underground sealed shut just before the U.S. came through. He said they talked of stockpiles of weapons, gold, and even an underground hangar somewhere with a few aircraft and light vehicles. He was never able to search around for anything as his work was needed elsewhere but he always claimed that some of the combat engineers found bunker doors that were welded shut. After seeing this I know that some of what the kids was true but due to the building and flooding, the secrets are probably sealed forever.
Just look at the helmets on those fire dep. people. Stahlhelm look alike. Just imagine the amount of work to construct all this and obviously one has to respect the amount of work these guy´s did here! Fantastic video!!!!!
@@gobshite5150 it’s my pleasure bruv I treat people the way they treat me and you were decent and polite. Sharing information and knowledge that I didn’t know....and I still love learning random facts lol. Mad about Saddams Darth Vader Helmet,well it was Uday wasn’t it who brought the helmet in? But I’ve seen the video about it on here as well and it must have been about the same time as you lmao. It’s been great chatting bruv,stay up and stay safe in these weird days @Michael A 👍🏻
@@SwedishEmpire1700 I'm sure it was the Americans that bombed the f##k out of it then it was picked clean by the allies. There are hundreds of photos of Allied especially US troops there
Thankyou for putting this up for all to see . Thankyou to the men and fire dept. Who went down and risk their lives to record this for history. To me the bunker and its surrounding areas should have been saved for history. Good or bad it needs to be saved for others to see and learn from ...
Yes! I loved the explore, but really found the set shots / B roll / whatever off putting. (The camera shots of the fireman in the mask were ridiculous. )
Wie oft ich mir so eine expedition gewünscht habe, wo sich niemand abhalten lässt wende aufzumachen oder unter wasser weiter zu machen. Einfach nur hammer geil, ein großes Danke an die Crew die das gemacht hat und an dem Kanal Besitzer der dieses Video bochgaden hat👌🏼👍🏼🙏🏼
Apparently they can do this to us Germans...... 70 years of brainwashing and removing of History and making it legally impossible to question and revisit our history.... The victors must be REALLY scared of the stuff they don't want the german population of today to know..
@@thelibrarian336 Why is the holocaust the only event in history that it is literally ILLEGAL to question? You aren’t even allowed to dispute any details. It’s strange.
@Timothy Simpson In trying to follow who said what, Let's start here; who is making it illegal to ask about the Holocaust for one.? And two who is sweeping it under the rug?
Wow that was some impressive repelling skills with only using the rope to slowly come down with out any other equipment. A lot of people can’t even do it with all the proper gear and this man did it with so much ease you woulda thought he was kitted out in gear! Good job my guy! Well done! That’s experience right there!
That diver is very brave indeed. That water can't be very pleasant for starters never mind the risk of cave in or getting tangled up down there. Bravo!
God knows what disgusting shit could be in that water from when the Nazis were there. Hate to think. Especially if Goering or Bormann were ever there. Fat pigs. As a diver you'd never get me in there. Not for anything.
As an old cave explorer (NSS #7676), I have to congratulate you on a very interesting and well done exploration. I am surprised how quickly the rimstone, soda straws, and cave coral was formed. I attended high school in Germany (Heidelberg & Frankfurt) in the mid-50s and I visited Obersalzberg in 1954. At that time there was a concrete pad where a building had once stood and a concrete stairway led down to a bunker below. There was a zig-zag in the staircase and at the midpoint landing, an opening for a machine gun commanding the entrance existed. At the foot of the stairway, a concrete bunker hallway ran ahead with concrete rooms off to each side. On the walls of the rooms there were bullet pock marks in the concrete walls where US troops had swept the doorways with submachinegun fire as they first entered the bunker. I think the explorers and cameramen deserve credit for their great effort. Where are their names? Regards, Neil P. Albaugh Tucson, AZ
When I was stationed in Germany back in the 70's I stayed at the General Walker Hotel, you could take a tour of the bunker below the hotel. I heard the Obersaltzburg was littered with outer bunkers and tunnels, now I know it's true, wonder what else they'll find in the future?
@@mikerequadt9661 I was CSC 2/33d Armor 3rd AD Kirchgoens. I came from the 101st at Campbell where I began as a 11B. Was involuntarily reclassified as a 11C which pissed me off cause 11C did nothing but stay in the rear. PCS to Germany as a 11C. Was made an AJ SGT, replaced the unit orderly clerk for 2 weeks because I could type without making a mistake, and then moved into a slot in the Bn S2 office where I worked with 2 former SF Vietnam A Team combat members. Great war stories.
Stayed at the General Walker in 70's also. They took us down the tunnel and showed us stairs going down to the tunnels below. It had a large gate that had Achtung ! (DANGER). Also a big red line painted on the floor and walls.
I never had a tour. I just remember the stairs going down from the hotel's main floor and the machine gun slit in the wall facing the stairs corridor making it a kill zone for anyone coming down that was hostile. The SS garage was still there along with the ruins/foundations of other Nazi leader's homes. If you hacked through the weeds you could still get to the ruins of Hitler's residence. I remember reading "something" that said many of the local residents were mad at Hitler because when he moved in they were forced to move out of homes and businesses that their families had occupied for years.
Chilling and surreal.. Like the ruins of some long lost, ancient civilization, yet the reality is they're less than 100 years old, and were a part of something so sinister and evil.. Hard to wrap the mind around it. Massive thanks to whoever was responsible for documenting this.
Amazing to see the extent that they to for their ideas and military operations , you can see that this and other facilities were well thought of ahead of time. Thankyou for sharing.
Absolutely fantastic!!! I was believing to have all the undergrounds plans of the undergrounds of obersalzberg... Now I realize i have... Let's say 20%... Incredible work!! Congratulations.
I am a Brazilian dude who loves the WWII theme. Never saw this video before. Thank you so much for uploading it! I'm fascinated. I can't imagine the sensation of discovering part of the history like that, being so lucky to find something almost no one saw before. And now I'm thinking, just imagine how frustrated the friends of this diver's kid must be by knowing their fathers will never be as cool as his 😂😂😂
You guys are crazy! Diving in to an old collapsing bunker from ww2. I appreciate the danger you put your selves in for this content that which I watch safely from my living room. Keep up the good work and be safe 🙏
Do you been to obersalzberg before ? Would love to go there with you. I always go there at least 5 times a year...such beautiful area and pf course alot of history
Fantastic article and the recovery of the M40 helmet was a bonus although I would have thought there would have been a lot more items found. I have been into the tunnels at the Documentation Centre & under the Zum Turken.
I think it’s messed up that they destroyed this bunker. Good or bad this is history that should have been left alone for future generations to see what took place during this time in the war. History is always a great thing to preserve for future generations to ensure this isn’t done again in the future.
What a great find and exploration. I wonder if slow continuous pumping out the water overtime would make it easier and produce further findings. All quite amazing and well built. One has to wonder what else is hiding just waiting to be found.
Awesome film.... dissapointed about the urge to destroy instead making a museum. Those bunkers are so solid that actually you can build on top or integrate them to buildings basements...no need to destroy them. One guy should get less schintzell's if he want to crawl in the holes :) A good joke for the diver would be to expect him in SS uniforms when he gets out of the water.... Hallo mein freund :D Alles gut?
I'm sitting in New Zealand, watching this for the first time. All I can think is absolutely amazing & I wish I was there. I do have a piece of Bormans tree.
Thank you for continuing to search and find more and more history for the next generations to see and learn from. Good or bad hear Nor there but history must be documented period!!!
Wouldn’t it be great if a safe secure access tunnel could be made into the bunker for future research. Rather like the Williamson Tunnels have been preserved in Liverpool? The entrance could be a proper secure, concreted and steel access well away from the new complex in a discrete location and then official access could be controlled and operated by proper means. Despite the nature, I don’t think these facility’s should be out beyond future access. History should not be erased or forgotten
I wouldn't call it erasing of history, since they're documenting the exploration and there are other videos and sources you can check, including visiting the Dokumentation Obersalzberg Museum. In the end although ideally there should be an effort to preserve as much of history as possible the truth of the matter is conservation costs time and money and not everything can be kept in a condition that doesn't endanger the lives of others; there'll always be things that get destroyed in the process.
I was there in the early 1970s. Very extremely cool place that history just soaks into that place and to you while you’re there. It was just amazing to be there in that place knowing that Hitler walked the same place you were walking.The view is spectacular
I can't understand why people of today are so offended by our past history. History is to learn by,not be offended by. if we forget about our past,the we are doomed to repeat it
I have a plan of the tunnels under there I got from an old shop in Germany not long after the Berlin Wall came down and Europe opened its borders up I only got it because it was drawn in blue on white paper had never seen something like it before it’s very vast down there judging by the plan. great to finally see inside it 👍🏼🇬🇬
This is history no matter what?? And it should be preserved?? And told to the future, and not buried, and the story twisted?? Never FORGET!! So it's not repeated?? Think about it people??? Thank you for sharing your time to share this vedieo, better than history channel by far??? This is better than oak island??
It's just an old German bunker guys. It's already in the history books Germans made a lot of bunkers in world War II. Bunkers are built to keep from being overtaken. We have them right here in America. Bunkers are just holes in the ground guys, they are just for safety guess what animals do it too
@@paulomaeney7324 I wasn't referring to the actual hole and safety. America is becoming divided just like Germany was when Hitler took power. We can't forget the history of WW2. The nazis made lists just like AOC wants to do. The nazis gained a majority in the Bundestag just like the republicans are. THIS is what I was referring to. Just for clarity. As for the building, knock it down but remember the things that led to it being there in the 1st place please
@@jennharrison5579 haha, don't worry Jen we have plenty of documentation. Remember it was a world War and it happened twice by the Germans, believe me America as does the whole world have documentation of what the Germans have been up to for the last century and pretty much throughout the German' Nations history.. and go ahead and look up the history of the German and you'll find that they pretty much have been up to no good since they became a nation. By the way you do know the history I'm asking you to look up,? that is also called "documentation". Hell before world wars 1 the French and the Germans had been going at it it was a time there was no French it became Germany and then France take over Germany and there was no more Germany it was France.. believe me we know exactly what is going on it is you people screaming doomsday end of the world that just need to go down to the local library and pick up a book. Get your faces out of your phone and get off your computer and go down to your local library read a book seriously.
In most European countries, including Russia, digging for war artefacts requires permits from authorities. Judging by the way some of those Russian guys operate, and why they don’t show their faces on screen, I would suggest that they look for digging sites to recover and sell what they find at the many military fairs that seem to be popular over there. If they find human remains, I would almost guarantee that they don’t contact authorities to repatriate them, but just re-bury them because they know that they would get into trouble with the law. There are some legitimate guys out there of course, and I watch a few regularly, but there are also many that break the law to make a few bucks. Google it and you will find a lot of information on unauthorised recovery of WW2 artefacts.
@@garylawless3608 I agree, I've watched some of those videos and I find the way they treat the human remains they discover very disturbing. They are only interested in recovering rare German equipment and medals so they can sell them on eBay etc. where they can fetch very high prices, especially from collectors in the US.
@@Wally-H Usually though they report bones to the proper channels so they get fetched home, they posted a video where they showed it being done. But i bet they dont mention all the guns and stuff they find though, but then again who would tell the Gov about every little thing?
Because there are so many questions about what happens to the electrical equipment etc. here is the explanation:
Between the escape of the Nazis (April 25, 1945) from Obersalzberg and the arrival of the American soldiers in Berchtesgaden on May 5, 1945, there were 10 days on which Obersalzberg was officially opened for looting by District Administrator Dr. Jacob.
At that time, everything with a practical use for the local farmers was usable. Even the ceiling reinforcements were partially chiseled out to get some more construction steel. Therefore, all electrical equipment is missing.
The paintings and objects of art were left behind in contrast, as you can see in our video of the 1st bunker inspection of the Americans at Obersalzberg. There you can still see the art collection and the record collection. After the officers' inspection, large parts of the bunker complex were closed due to the danger of collapse caused by the bombing in the previous weeks, and later the entrances were sealed. Until the time of our video.
Greets
Could you tell me the year this video was taken? Thanks I loved it
@@dopeygang6719 In the 90s. I think it was in 93 or 94...
@@BEGAFILMHISTORYINMOTION thanks guys
No safe attached to a floor in an office beneath the water??
I guess the one thing I would worry about is air quality down there..also known as "Dead Air"..
How do you know you have enough oxygen?
Oh! My comment was premature..you call the fire department!😀
I understand that this history is dark, however I find it sad that Germany and other European nations are trying so hard to eliminate it! History is History without the dark side of it there would be no bright side of it neither!
At last a common sense statement and somebody who thinks like I do.
Those who want. To get rid of history desire a world without morals, history and art.
Destroying the past, what could go wrong?
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
True words, you see the same happening in the U.S and U.K with all the monument teardowns, it's insanity
Never destroy history unless you fully document and explore it. I wonder if any surviving member of the SS is watching this in disbelief.
The scale and breadth of German bunker building is just breathtaking. This is haunting.
yeah, lots and lots of slave labor. Destroying history is a hallmark of the left. With no history they can indoctrinate youth and teach them whatever they want, as did hitler. Then society can do it over and over and over as the psychopaths see fit.
@@thelibrarian336 all i see is that your country, germany are going to collapse what ever remains for a train\bus station. sealing it forever. Instead of excavating it , the entire site and see what it is and how big this complex really is. US is the same, at the Golden Gate bridge, there was a base that protected the bay and surrounding areas. Some films were made in the parts but not in the bunker system that was there. Our friends took battlelanterns from our ship and drove his vw inside this bunker. It was amazing place. we went to the 5th floor and decided that we needed more equiptment gas meters and so on.. We came back a month later and went to the 10th floor where there were vast amounts of water thru out. They had living quarters, cooking and bathing, medical complete, radio rooms, ammo rooms etc. There were two 18 inch guns implacements out side along with 2 missle silo's that they would open once a month and rase them. Now its been demo'd and collapsed into the mtn side, and leveled off and now i beleive its the welcome center for the park.
Yes a majority of ss live in South America, and guess what they seem rather tall, I know. Up until recently I had a girlfriend that is living there in Ecuador with the last name of Dammer. That is a German name and she was born there in Ecuador but her parents left Germany to come to Ecuador to open up a beer business and this is her story. And she doesn't know anything beyond that as far as she's concerned she's Latino.
@@dn9463 you're not talking about four point are you? they demolished that?
Are you kidding me? Nah nah nah I got to check this out no way.
@Kalevipoeg dude my grandmother is 103 years old and could speak and hear very good
It’s funny how the firemen’s helmets haven’t changed that much since ww2 German helmets
The WW2 era German helmet was based off a German fire mans helmet.
@@petewood2350 I was never aware of that,interesting
And that basic design was begrudgingly admitted, by other nations, to be superior to what they were using.
@@petewood2350 Not true. The stahlhelm was developed in WWI when Dr Friedrich Schwerd did a study on head wounds from shrapnel and then developed a helmet to protect the soldier's head effectively, while still being able to wear it while laying prone, not obscuring the vision or hearing, etc. He based the design on the 15th-century German sallet helm, which protected the head and neck more effectively than most helmets without being too heavy or bulky. The helmet design was then adopted by other German services, such as firefighters and civil defense, and the design was copied by other countries (Finland, Argentina, Switzerland, Nationalist China) because it offered better protection than most other helmet designs or because the Germans supplied them. The first kevlar helmet adopted by the US and later many other countries, the PASGT, is known as the 'Fritz helm' because the design was based on the stahlhelm.
Similarly, the French Adrian helmet was developed in WWI and rapidly adopted by many countries and other services, such as fire fighters and police, but the Adrian helmet wasn't based on any pre-existing design. The British Brodie helmet was roughly based on the medieval kettle helm and mostly took that form because it could be pressed from a single piece of steel and was incredibly cheap to make.
The stahlhelm, in one version or another, is still in use today because it's simply one of the best designed helmets in existence.
@@leelarson107 pretty much like most of the inventions and equipment the Germans used. Hence why America poached the Nazi rocket scientists to go and work for NASA and use their expertise in rocket propulsion.
While in Germany in the US Army in 1983-4 I was stationed in Augsburg and worked at the 'Field Station Augsburg' listening post. It was built over an old Nazi airfield. In a corner of the base was an old, fenced off group of buildings from the old Nazi base. Occasionally the gates were left open and we used to jog through the areas. I had heard rumors of an underground facility under the base so I started looking through the buildings. I crawled through steam tunnels and a few other access tunnels until one day I found something under the kitchens. Under the main mess hall there was a heavily built concrete basement and in that basement was a pair of armored doors that had been welded shut. They were not full sized doors but were only about half-height, like a dumbwaiter. When i shone a light through the crack in the doors there was a vertical shaft leading down, as far as I could shine the light it went straight down. I never could get past the welds so i never did get any further but something is definitely down there! It will be much harder to access now though as the year I rotated back they plowed down all those buildings. Some of it is still standing but the kitchens and bowling alley and old offices are all gone. The rumors I heard was that there were underground hangars and that there were still aircraft in them after the war and that the US Army had sealed them up because there were booby-traps. This place was a secure facility then so I could not get to the areas where the hangar entrances were supposed to be so i don't know if any of that was true or not. Maybe someday someone will be able to find a way down there... Good Luck!
Yes , obviously they were planning a long stay if things went their way in the war , I hope someone does get down there one-day , so good to see and learn about this , all the pre planning years before amazing , love this stuff.
That's pretty intense thank you for sharing that.
If you're in the military and you get stationed over in Europe you will be stationed in a military installation that used to be a German installation or an installation of that country. I was stationed in Sicily that were affiliated to each other one was the air field the other base was where everybody lived. and of course there were stories that there was a tunnel from one base to the other and there was still tank tracks and tire tracks from military footprints still in there well think about it why wouldn't there be and it would see and it was a sealed shut but no one knows where these places the entrance to the Nexus of these places and went on to even say maybe there was equipment in there, which could be.
Oh and by the way not only were the Germans in Sicily so were the Romans.. they're columned buildings
were there. So think about it everybody if you're in the military you're going to a facility that's already been used as a old facility back in the day you think we're going to build new bases and forts just because we have arrived. No we're going to facilitate the facilities that the previous army built. So remember Europe is old you know how many armies have been through Europe since the beginning of time and you'll see remnants of it everywhere.the only reason it's tantalizing to us Americans is because here in America compared to Europe we don't have a history and the only War we had here in America was a civil war.
Wow.I smell adventure.
Doors welded shut, ? There has too be another entry point ! A one way entrance ? In , hard to believe! Nothing is built with only one entry point, soo , got to keep looking. ! If need be cut the welds . And go ! Or keep looking for the other entry .
point , it has to be there ! One entry point is not logical, aircraft down there ? A bomb or a booby trap can be surched out and disabled
Historic places should be surched out ! Close and ignore is not the answer. Ie . The Egyptian perimids !
I spent 30 days on guard duty at the General Walker and surrounding area in 1986. Had a great time exploring the grounds and areas the general public did not has access to. Went on the public tour but never knew until now what was under my feet. Too bad this is lost to history. Thanks for the memories.
Yeah I just posted a comment about how it’s messed up that they got rid of this. This is history good or bad and should have been preserved for future generations to see.
I'm astonished that the narrator said that the finds the diver brought up were "of no particular value." A WW2 collector would pay a small fortune for an SS helmet or the other objects with proof that they came out of an SS bunker on the Obersaltzberg.
I think perhaps the feller is speaking of the historical significance, eg. The finding of another gun and helmet dosn't further Our knowledge about the war or this bunker. I agree in terms of finance, its a very valuable find but these men look at it as historians would, not as collectors would.
To actually stand in the presence of history is an overwhelming feeling it must of been incredible to be there!!
Been waiting for this one and it didn't dissapoint , well done to everyone involved in what was a dangerous mission
The sheer magnitude of these bunkers is staggering. I’m absolutely fascinated and sad to see them closed off at the same time. This should be a clue that what you thought you knew about WWII was merely the tip of the iceberg.
I visited the Obersalzberg 3 years ago and there is still plenty of the bunker system still intact and accessible through the dokumentationzentrum. It is very impressive.
In modern time world war 2 is a vast history. Though the present world is not interested, but so much is still missing for the historians. The rise & downfall of Germany shall be a great lesson for the future belligerent nations. Nothing will be left for historians. It will be doom's day
Excellent video! I was a kid when we were stationed in Germany in the mid-80's, and stayed at the General Walker Hotel (formerly the Platterhof), and got to take a tour of several of the still intact bunker systems in the area, including the one attached to the hotel. Dad and I even took a walk down through the woods to see the ruins of the Berghof. We took a brick. My parents used it as a door stop for many years.
The General Walker Hotel was my favorite.
It boggles the mind to thing of the resources and manpower taken to construct this facility and the ventilation and sump pump systems required to make it usable.
Being atop a mountain, surely a drainage adit could be dug to avoid the use of pumps?
Worse period of history in the past 80 years. Imagine still having explosions in those areas today from that time.
@Richardo Franzie they built magnificent architecture still used and awed today
My grand uncle was an army lineman and was sent into the obersalzberg right after the wars end to set up communications for the U.S. army head quarters there. He said that during his time there he talked to some kids who were in the volksturm and he said they said there were massive complexes underground sealed shut just before the U.S. came through. He said they talked of stockpiles of weapons, gold, and even an underground hangar somewhere with a few aircraft and light vehicles. He was never able to search around for anything as his work was needed elsewhere but he always claimed that some of the combat engineers found bunker doors that were welded shut. After seeing this I know that some of what the kids was true but due to the building and flooding, the secrets are probably sealed forever.
When u want to discover the secrets of an area… ask the local kids and the old people
Just look at the helmets on those fire dep. people. Stahlhelm look alike. Just imagine the amount of work to construct all this and obviously one has to respect the amount of work these guy´s did here! Fantastic video!!!!!
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Still in use here in Denmark.
Well known as the "Krout Helmet".
@@gobshite5150 it’s my pleasure bruv I treat people the way they treat me and you were decent and polite. Sharing information and knowledge that I didn’t know....and I still love learning random facts lol. Mad about Saddams Darth Vader Helmet,well it was Uday wasn’t it who brought the helmet in? But I’ve seen the video about it on here as well and it must have been about the same time as you lmao. It’s been great chatting bruv,stay up and stay safe in these weird days @Michael A 👍🏻
This place would have been something else to see when it was up and running!
I was there i built it
@@Samisnoyce haha I'm sure you did!
Kinda odd how picked clean it was, did the allies just vacuum it all clean and then bomb the tunnels or did SS do it?
@@SwedishEmpire1700 I'm sure it was the Americans that bombed the f##k out of it then it was picked clean by the allies. There are hundreds of photos of Allied especially US troops there
I was thinking the exact same thing great comment 👍✌
This bunker should have been preserved. Absolutely ridiculous that it was demolished.
Thankyou for putting this up for all to see . Thankyou to the men and fire dept. Who went down and risk their lives to record this for history. To me the bunker and its surrounding areas should have been saved for history. Good or bad it needs to be saved for others to see and learn from ...
I recently discovered your channel. I am HOOKED ! Yours are some of the finest discovery videos I've seen. Thank you for all the hard work !
The soundtrack was on point the whole time
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Fascinating! And interesting to note, that no matter where these guys came out, there was a cameraman there waiting for them.
Yes! I loved the explore, but really found the set shots / B roll / whatever off putting. (The camera shots of the fireman in the mask were ridiculous. )
@@ChurchOfTheHolyMho it was the 90’s what do you expect
I’m extremely claustrophobic. Just watching these guys climb through tiny holes I have to close my eyes, but I can’t stop watching.
I know, I keep taking deep breaths to compensate!
I like how the camera person seems to be able to get through before everyone else :D
Possibley, the most interesting exploration of any bunker system I've ever seen.
This was a great exploration. The filming and underwater work was so professional.
Brave, Brave and Brave.
Wouldn't wish to do this myself, so, touche to everyone involved in the making of this.
Wonderful wonderful footage.
Absolutely had me on the edge of my seat.
Wie oft ich mir so eine expedition gewünscht habe, wo sich niemand abhalten lässt wende aufzumachen oder unter wasser weiter zu machen. Einfach nur hammer geil, ein großes Danke an die Crew die das gemacht hat und an dem Kanal Besitzer der dieses Video bochgaden hat👌🏼👍🏼🙏🏼
No idea why this was recommended but I’m bloody half it was. Brilliant to see
Eliminate history is secondary crime
Apparently they can do this to us Germans...... 70 years of brainwashing and removing of History and making it legally impossible to question and revisit our history.... The victors must be REALLY scared of the stuff they don't want the german population of today to know..
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
@@thelibrarian336 Why is the holocaust the only event in history that it is literally ILLEGAL to question? You aren’t even allowed to dispute any details. It’s strange.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
Really.. that's your question!??
@Timothy Simpson
In trying to follow who said what,
Let's start here; who is making it illegal to ask about the Holocaust for one.? And two who is sweeping it under the rug?
Wow that was some impressive repelling skills with only using the rope to slowly come down with out any other equipment. A lot of people can’t even do it with all the proper gear and this man did it with so much ease you woulda thought he was kitted out in gear! Good job my guy! Well done! That’s experience right there!
Fantastic exploration into the past. This was a real pleasure to watch and thank you for your efforts.
The number of bunkers and the size of them are truly amazing
Best channel on this subject on UA-cam. Always watch your videos and never found a boring one yet. Great job guys! 👍
Glad you enjoy it.
Thank you!
@@BEGAFILMHISTORYINMOTION Thanks to you for all you are doing! 🙏
These guys looking for artifacts and the firemen show up wear the artifacts on their heads!😂
To be honest firefighter helmets in Germany were many times made by the same machines that made the wehrmacht helmets
That diver is very brave indeed. That water can't be very pleasant for starters never mind the risk of cave in or getting tangled up down there. Bravo!
God knows what disgusting shit could be in that water from when the Nazis were there. Hate to think. Especially if Goering or Bormann were ever there. Fat pigs.
As a diver you'd never get me in there. Not for anything.
As an old cave explorer (NSS #7676), I have to congratulate you on a very interesting and well done exploration. I am surprised how quickly the rimstone, soda straws, and cave coral was formed.
I attended high school in Germany (Heidelberg & Frankfurt) in the mid-50s and I visited Obersalzberg in 1954. At that time there was a concrete pad where a building had once stood and a concrete stairway led down to a bunker below. There was a zig-zag in the staircase and at the midpoint landing, an opening for a machine gun commanding the entrance existed. At the foot of the stairway, a concrete bunker hallway ran ahead with concrete rooms off to each side. On the walls of the rooms there were bullet pock marks in the concrete walls where US troops had swept the doorways with submachinegun fire as they first entered the bunker.
I think the explorers and cameramen deserve credit for their great effort. Where are their names? Regards, Neil P. Albaugh Tucson, AZ
Truly fantastic historical footage - what a gem !! .
When I was stationed in Germany back in the 70's I stayed at the General Walker Hotel, you could take a tour of the bunker below the hotel. I heard the Obersaltzburg was littered with outer bunkers and tunnels, now I know it's true, wonder what else they'll find in the future?
I was thinking the same thought. I was in Germany 1974-1975 and 1980-1983. I visited this area a couple of times.
@@greggregory4654 What unit were you in? I was in the 97th Signal Bn at Sandhoffen.
@@mikerequadt9661 I was CSC 2/33d Armor 3rd AD Kirchgoens. I came from the 101st at Campbell where I began as a 11B. Was involuntarily reclassified as a 11C which pissed me off cause 11C did nothing but stay in the rear. PCS to Germany as a 11C. Was made an AJ SGT, replaced the unit orderly clerk for 2 weeks because I could type without making a mistake, and then moved into a slot in the Bn S2 office where I worked with 2 former SF Vietnam A Team combat members. Great war stories.
Stayed at the General Walker in 70's also. They took us down the tunnel and showed us stairs going down to the tunnels below. It had a large gate that had Achtung ! (DANGER). Also a big red line painted on the floor and walls.
I never had a tour. I just remember the stairs going down from the hotel's main floor and the machine gun slit in the wall facing the stairs corridor making it a kill zone for anyone coming down that was hostile. The SS garage was still there along with the ruins/foundations of other Nazi leader's homes. If you hacked through the weeds you could still get to the ruins of Hitler's residence. I remember reading "something" that said many of the local residents were mad at Hitler because when he moved in they were forced to move out of homes and businesses that their families had occupied for years.
Chilling and surreal.. Like the ruins of some long lost, ancient civilization, yet the reality is they're less than 100 years old, and were a part of something so sinister and evil.. Hard to wrap the mind around it. Massive thanks to whoever was responsible for documenting this.
It was us. Thanks for enjoying our videos.
Greets.
Absolutely fantastic!
Amazing to see the extent that they to for their ideas and military operations , you can see that this and other facilities were well thought of ahead of time.
Thankyou for sharing.
Just the amount of concrete, and rebar, and the walls being so thick. Has got to be uncomprehendable.
Impressive and kudos to the team who documented this for posterity.
Absolutely fantastic!!! I was believing to have all the undergrounds plans of the undergrounds of obersalzberg... Now I realize i have... Let's say 20%...
Incredible work!!
Congratulations.
These men were truly fearless. Pulse pounding stuff. Excellent
Thank you for sharing your hard work and efforts what a vital contribution to history you are making
I am a Brazilian dude who loves the WWII theme. Never saw this video before. Thank you so much for uploading it! I'm fascinated. I can't imagine the sensation of discovering part of the history like that, being so lucky to find something almost no one saw before. And now I'm thinking, just imagine how frustrated the friends of this diver's kid must be by knowing their fathers will never be as cool as his 😂😂😂
You guys are crazy! Diving in to an old collapsing bunker from ww2. I appreciate the danger you put your selves in for this content that which I watch safely from my living room. Keep up the good work and be safe 🙏
I was thinking the same thing. I'm having a claustrophobic panic attack just watching this. I can't begin to imagine squeezing down there
During that war, it was spooky. Now you guys are exploring the remnants of that same war and it is still spooky.
Interesting to see!
Do you been to obersalzberg before ? Would love to go there with you. I always go there at least 5 times a year...such beautiful area and pf course alot of history
love your videos man
interesting to see you here Nick! 😀 when you go there search more stuff for your collection?
Hey Nick!
Bunkers are cool, bunkers are always cool, I love you.
Its a pity the fire service wouldn't dedicate a pump for 1 week and pump out the water for these men that put in so much effort and dedication
Forget the fire department, they could have rented one.
@@poppaluke9991 Pump would've probably clogged and failed due to the sparse amount of silt and other dirt and debris in the water.
@@linuxtuxvolds5917 I use pumps regularly and it would have worked.
@@poppaluke9991 Thanks.
You just know at least one of the guys is thinking, "Where's the gold ?!"
This facility should be preserved and reopened as a monument of history…
Fantastic article and the recovery of the M40 helmet was a bonus although I would have thought there would have been a lot more items found. I have been into the tunnels at the Documentation Centre & under the Zum Turken.
I think it’s messed up that they destroyed this bunker. Good or bad this is history that should have been left alone for future generations to see what took place during this time in the war. History is always a great thing to preserve for future generations to ensure this isn’t done again in the future.
This was great to see, thanks for the upload :)
What a great find and exploration. I wonder if slow continuous pumping out the water overtime would make it easier and produce further findings. All quite amazing and well built. One has to wonder what else is hiding just waiting to be found.
Lmaooo how did they get that gas mask shot 😭😭😭 they put a gas mask infront of the camera and walk with it 😂😂 why no one talking about that 21:55
With that music it's very michael Myers 🔪💀
It was the 90s that technique was meta
Haha, also check 15:30 "our employee paul leads the way"
Camera man already down there🤣
I know that drives me nuts
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Awesome film.... dissapointed about the urge to destroy instead making a museum. Those bunkers are so solid that actually you can build on top or integrate them to buildings basements...no need to destroy them. One guy should get less schintzell's if he want to crawl in the holes :) A good joke for the diver would be to expect him in SS uniforms when he gets out of the water.... Hallo mein freund :D Alles gut?
Awesome! Thanks for sharing and documenting this for future generations. Love the F.D. Stahlhelms.
This channel is absolutely amazing we have just subscribed hello from the crew here in Scotland 👋🏴
I myself was wondering if the had any "creepy" or unexplainable experiences while they were down there! 👻
Very excited to see your channel. I wanted to see these bunkers but figured it would never happen!
I'm sitting in New Zealand, watching this for the first time.
All I can think is absolutely amazing & I wish I was there.
I do have a piece of Bormans tree.
Watching in NZ too..... great series of videos. Amazing how all this history is being destroyed with so much to learn.
Also watching in NZ....good content to kick back and watch as the rain pelts down outside
Thanks for this, never saw it :)
Destroying history for a parking lot awesome 👌
Absolutely interesting and mysterious exploration. Subscribed!
A great video and I enjoyed watching it. Good luck with future projects and I look forward to watching your videos about them also.
much of this era is the document y the better for future gens this dive was fantastic along with others above water line
Thank you for continuing to search and find more and more history for the next generations to see and learn from. Good or bad hear Nor there but history must be documented period!!!
Couldn't help noticing the ole milk crate full of the lunchtime beverages. Lol
@Jordan Spenca If you ever take a trip to Germany and decide to buy some beer at the local market that's how you get it, in a milk crate.
thank you for the exporitiory video . i love how history is recorded before lost forever
Anyone else feeling severely claustrophobic watching this? 😮
Thank you for sharing this
Wouldn’t it be great if a safe secure access tunnel could be made into the bunker for future research. Rather like the Williamson Tunnels have been preserved in Liverpool? The entrance could be a proper secure, concreted and steel access well away from the new complex in a discrete location and then official access could be controlled and operated by proper means. Despite the nature, I don’t think these facility’s should be out beyond future access. History should not be erased or forgotten
I wouldn't call it erasing of history, since they're documenting the exploration and there are other videos and sources you can check, including visiting the Dokumentation Obersalzberg Museum. In the end although ideally there should be an effort to preserve as much of history as possible the truth of the matter is conservation costs time and money and not everything can be kept in a condition that doesn't endanger the lives of others; there'll always be things that get destroyed in the process.
Ometecuhtli I agree totally
A Excellent Video.. Highly Recommended.. Thank You Very Much For Sharing..
I was there in the early 1970s. Very extremely cool place that history just soaks into that place and to you while you’re there. It was just amazing to be there in that place knowing that Hitler walked the same place you were walking.The view is spectacular
Y'all have balls of steel. Greetings.
When lockdown is over I'm going there.
this is truly a gigantic underworld complexes. so massive nobody knew that it really existed. kudos to the workers who created this great complexes.
I can't understand why people of today are so offended by our past history. History is to learn by,not be offended by. if we forget about our past,the we are doomed to repeat it
19:10 Interesting helmets the fire brigade have!
Imagine building this... 80 years ago..
Your video is..fabulos
Thx for this magnificent images.
All the best guys
Creepy and fascinating ! Those guys are nuts for going down there. I would be scared that it might collapse in some parts.
History should not be destroyed
I would've loved to explore that bunker, shame it was destroyed those explorers are luckly.
Love the fire fighters helmets. Such a good design they still use it till this day in some countries
Once you start deleting history, it’s bound to repeat itself. It should have been saved and restored, and turned into museum
I commend your efforts! My claustrophobia runs rampant just watching the video.
Fascinating! A shame they always felt the need to destroy all that workmanship. It is history, after all.
No its not. They want to bury along with them all their evidence.
I have a plan of the tunnels under there I got from an old shop in Germany not long after the Berlin Wall came down and Europe opened its borders up I only got it because it was drawn in blue on white paper had never seen something like it before it’s very vast down there judging by the plan. great to finally see inside it 👍🏼🇬🇬
This is history no matter what?? And it should be preserved?? And told to the future, and not buried, and the story twisted?? Never FORGET!! So it's not repeated?? Think about it people??? Thank you for sharing your time to share this vedieo, better than history channel by far??? This is better than oak island??
Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it
It's just an old German bunker guys.
It's already in the history books Germans made a lot of bunkers in world War II. Bunkers are built to keep from being overtaken. We have them right here in America. Bunkers are just holes in the ground guys, they are just for safety guess what animals do it too
@@jennharrison5579 yes Jen if we go to war again I will be condemned to repeat making a hole in the ground for safety
@@paulomaeney7324 I wasn't referring to the actual hole and safety. America is becoming divided just like Germany was when Hitler took power. We can't forget the history of WW2. The nazis made lists just like AOC wants to do. The nazis gained a majority in the Bundestag just like the republicans are. THIS is what I was referring to. Just for clarity. As for the building, knock it down but remember the things that led to it being there in the 1st place please
@@jennharrison5579 haha, don't worry Jen we have plenty of documentation. Remember it was a world War and it happened twice by the Germans, believe me America as does the whole world have documentation of what the Germans have been up to for the last century and pretty much throughout the German' Nations history.. and go ahead and look up the history of the German and you'll find that they pretty much have been up to no good since they became a nation.
By the way you do know the history I'm asking you to look up,? that is also called "documentation". Hell before world wars 1 the French and the Germans had been going at it it was a time there was no French it became Germany and then France take over Germany and there was no more Germany it was France.. believe me we know exactly what is going on it is you people screaming doomsday end of the world that just need to go down to the local library and pick up a book. Get your faces out of your phone and get off your computer and go down to your local library read a book seriously.
I was in the shooting ranges many years back and have one of the glass sections used for natural light,shame to destroy History.
I was there too and made several pictures. The level under the shooting ranges was full of water.
Seems like an oddly familiar design to those firefighter's protective helmets.
I think I have seen that somewhere's before....
Wow! Amazing,, Ty for all your hard work. Stay Safe.
There's these Russian guys that find German war artifacts every weekend, I think it's "Russian war diggers" good channel
In most European countries, including Russia, digging for war artefacts requires permits from authorities. Judging by the way some of those Russian guys operate, and why they don’t show their faces on screen, I would suggest that they look for digging sites to recover and sell what they find at the many military fairs that seem to be popular over there. If they find human remains, I would almost guarantee that they don’t contact authorities to repatriate them, but just re-bury them because they know that they would get into trouble with the law.
There are some legitimate guys out there of course, and I watch a few regularly, but there are also many that break the law to make a few bucks.
Google it and you will find a lot of information on unauthorised recovery of WW2 artefacts.
@@garylawless3608 I agree, I've watched some of those videos and I find the way they treat the human remains they discover very disturbing. They are only interested in recovering rare German equipment and medals so they can sell them on eBay etc. where they can fetch very high prices, especially from collectors in the US.
I like to watch WW2HistoryHunter he finds some cool stuff.
Русские дадут вам ещё звиздюлей!
@@Wally-H Usually though they report bones to the proper channels so they get fetched home, they posted a video where they showed it being done. But i bet they dont mention all the guns and stuff they find though, but then again who would tell the Gov about every little thing?
Great clip. Gotta love the traditional German style yellow helmets's the fire department men wore. From Australia
"The Victors are never asked," said Cousin Adolf, "Did you tell the truth?"
A Phenomenal Video All The Best Team.