THE MOST AMAZING WW2 BUNKERS IN DENMARK - THE TOUR

world's biggest equity [Music] that's it this will be the episode dedicated to those of you [ __ ] are interested in history or military history or more specifically the history of World War two and what is left of it today there's some really great dedicated people out in Denmark that I want to go visit and the great Danish bunker tour that will be this show [Music] [Music] [Music] while I'm in Denmark I am taking you to an amazing place we went up to almost the tip of Denmark bunks bolt fort there's a huge museum here as you can tell behind me this is not what you see every day in the streets of LA this is how they built things back in the day when they were built to last let's go meet the museum inspector in here great guy knowledgeable historian there's a great exposition here on World War 2 in Denmark things you did not know [Music] my name is Henrik Udinese and I'm a curator at ladies coastal museum of northern Japan Oh Christmas elf it's called endings and we are Museum that both works a traditionally it works with exhibitions and writing books telling the stories are fair and I our area and we also include daily at fortress which is the remainder from the Atlantic war from the Second World War and we're very conscious about the way we work when we serve the stories of our area we both work as I stated in traditional ways and we also worked on the on modern platforms and different platforms and very rare earth that the way we tell the stories has to be different it ending on what the platform we are working on [Music] [Music] this is just amazing [Music] amazing when you walk down here and watching your head even though mine's pretty damn hard you come down here to the command and control where the commanders will stand and look about over you have the metal shutters if you need to shut up for a campfire this was put in after the wharf course because the wind blows but you look at this this is authentic then way it looked it is just amazing look at the steel doors and you walk down into the next room and what you will find down here is absolutely amazing they have restored this the way it was with a writing on the wall taken from different bunkers into the phone control where you have the each phone for each of the mayor large canis ten for ten point five centimeter guns 15 big-ass guns great like big guns with a crew slept and again this was on one bunker this was inspired by a training saw at the bunker in the Normandy this is ass or authentic as you are going to get the Germans the German argument to build these bunkers the crews this is what they saw every day for these years of the war they have done an amazing job if you are an American honey we need to get a passport that's complicated I know get a passport go to Denmark find it on a damn map come here and see these places if you have any stories of interest Dracul kids here this is a mate's and you cannot miss something like this because you won't find it almost anywhere possibly the best pastries in the world in this country worth traveling for on it's on now Kenneth told me to press the button on the wall being a soul travels always taught to not press buttons or pull levers coming down the running trench from one of the bunkers we're gonna go see something that you are not going to see anywhere sort of maybe in France but not preserved like this and you look at how they restored this this is the personnel bunker this is absolutely amazing even the ceiling they did it all this is beautiful beautiful work out here that this everything authentic and in the summer and on the Wednesdays the reenactors they move in here so it becomes a living museum for families to come and see how the Germans they actually lived and worked on their bunkers and I have to remind you all you seems like this worked only on donations so support your local museum come on out to Denmark come out here and see this because you just will not see something like this anywhere else this is amazing you look at the detail that they have on everything this is just pristine again as if nobody and just like somebody who lived here until last week I think it's important to remember and recognize the military reenactors around the world who's keeping various periods of history alive especially military history from the Civil War World War two even reenactors of the Vietnam War it is a very very vital part of remembering history through living history out here you have another restored bunkers that are being renovated and cleaned up and a museum that is being built almost entirely by volunteers but every year several times re-enactors come and civilians can come and get a feeling of the uniforms the weapons the daily life as it was during the war and I think we need to respect and support the re-enactors around the world in America Italy in France and from the war movies I've done I have been so very fortunate to continuously get emails from reenactors around the world inviting me to the reenactments to come film or wants to be in my movies and that is absolutely what keeps me going that is why I keep making World War 2 films because of the reenactment community and not not those of you in the rear back community that always complains about things books never mind anyway now you wonder why I'm here looking at this beautiful view it's really nice you can see everything from here why am i doing that because that's why this is one of the few canons left in the world that's preserved in a German bunker has built back then this is just amazing and you know what I'm gonna do here I'm gonna come back and I'm going to shoot a movie here just because it's here and somebody took great pains to restore it and keep it that way to preserve history no way I'm not going in here I have seen so many bunkers over the years and there are soon on whether it got us actually in place this is just amazing this is pristine it is restored you have the ammo [ __ ] you had everything out here I have the gun when you come in here has what you get to see this is just amazing it's amazing that it's here so the gas type metal doors you got in the back here these are amazing this is system it's unrestored in here but it's pure it is the way it would look 75 years after having been left by the Germans coming up the back here presumably to gun port down there for their protection and help stairs on top of this there's a Tobruk you come down here and you see this the ammo would come down yes tight doors come out here business end 15 centimeter gun controlling the whole harbour it's amazing we all know that all the bunkers are reinforced concrete five meters underground to support the cannon and now you're looking and you ask yourselves because you're asking yourself why is there a brick here it's built a brick snow's not delivered this is the finish first you built the entire casing and then you finish off things so people can use it we make it user-friendly but the bricks are just the outside it is a heavy reinforced concrete bunker through and through and just for comparison to show you what the bunkers look like before these great guys started fixing him let's go down here where all the mosquitoes and spiders live love me but see this as a pure bunker you see the difference this is what it looked like when they got it and there was a bird in a little bird through and through this is just amazing these huge structures that will always be here and we're still enjoying up here this is Tobruk Nicola so people can fall down but yeah this is amazing and now you can truly see the difference of how it looked when they got here compared to when they're done doing their amazing restorations up here at Beaufort they did an amazing job all volunteers only working on donations and yet they let us actually film one of our feature films here which I am dying to show you guys as soon as it's get released but these people were so friendly and so nice they all volunteered they take a bunker they restore it even the bunker art they restored it's so worth visiting come on up here and they have annual reenactments where they bring people in and they set up and go through the motions just like the Germans did you join the war it's really worth seeing Hey look at this this is the dome that covered a German anti-aircraft cannon I mean wasn't 105 to protect from shells eventually the Navy still occupies the bunkers in here behind me there's a naval station big bunkers in there eventually they will move out be decommissioned some of these will be installed in there so it'll eventually over the years become complete they have at this moment approximately 25 percent of the bunkers restored to what they were and I'm not done yet so it'll help hopefully over the years old they'll get it and this is just this is amazing it's the the job they've done restoring these bunkers is a must-see [Applause] not to mention how authentic does this look steel century cake for added protection but this is cool you look at this German riding barbed wire guard tower you come down here command bunker [Applause] firing slits rook on top this is just amazing and you see what they're on how lush the paint schemes are here steel doors and you go through and you see this museum it is just now here they have displays on the walls so you can actually see and hear the story and you look at the radio room the radio room is amazing to look at these original equipment typewriters this is really great this is something else and you go through and you come up here for the smaller smaller version of the fire control bunker that you can see out there get on the walls where everything is in the one direction unable to rover down there just a small room and up here this machine gun that small - broken and I'm going down these again but it really gives you the sense of the operations as they took place during the war there wasn't many battles that took place here their resistance activity it was a lot of shooting at Allied aircraft that flew overhead I had the mines the Germans had on display here magazine pouches I'm so slick and held anti-tank weapon Arcee come on through here and here's the other side of the firing slip aside there you go see access control you stinking machine gun out through there the entrance climate control probably wasn't hearing at boiler room because a winter I he gets really really cold in Denmark oh here you go look at this here's the whole area bunkers and the running trenches throughout everything the canons positions over here there's a theater I was told as shows little movies and I have to go see short movies from about then and were reenactments and I gotta go see those you gotta see what's in there too because well how much but I'm curious a lot of little rooms and you gotta love the paint scheme authentic and up there another little - Brooke presumably is go how the hell with here let's go see you know yeah here you go that's not covered in Mesquite house here you go to lift the machine gun ring now the grass have grown up over the help before they'll be a clean field of vision there's no guess we don't like to see that wide the first tank in World War 2 the Germans had the actual tank was the pumps of one very small two men machine guns this is the turret see how small this actually is and what they did they became obsolete quite quickly in there in the war need to up wear it to bigger tanks better armor bigger guns and that depends the one chassis and Turkish couldn't cope with so they took these off and they planted them in encasements here in Normandy all around the occupied territories were there needed to defend they buried down just the turrets pencil one two threes asked defensive positions sitting on top of concrete placements not their real armored but it was the best solution for a time where the Germans were strapped for weapons for guns for cannons they used everything from every occupied territory they got to because they could just couldn't manufacture enough to protect all the territory they had walking down here science s the interrogation bunker don't know what that means but it looks pretty damn big this would be a personnel bunker shootings but I'm a dora and somebody who did not play ball cool and everywhere and all the bunkers that were stored or Prussia Lewis door you have history from the occupation which is absolutely amazingly interesting they have a bunker showing a little video from how everything worked curator he told me that they were storing things every wherever they could find room in the landscape before they had the time and money to restore them and here's two more armor domes on the anti-aircraft cannons and the bottom of one just holla well it's the same just sitting around it will be amazing to go exploring around here to this today defense have antennas listening posts Navy sitting in here speaking of other things have been around the landscape here's the ship what none of you saw that coming yeah it's actually not an entire ship they they got the top of one from the Danish Navy training ship and then they put on different components from other ships for you know training sea men before they were brave enough to actually set off to sea surrounded by water safer he don't found when he fall off beside the fort here is a Danish made cannon made in 1912 and when the Germans arrived they took it from Copenhagen and brought it out here along with every bit of artillery cannon cannons weaponry they could find in the occupied territories they brought them to bear where they needed to and very appropriately it's sitting here overlooking the ocean this is a beautiful location beautiful view why the Navy's still set up here but it's it's hard to beat and it's very easy to understand why this was where the Germans decided to set up shop and when the Bombers came once again here you are down to a shelter imagine this in the middle of the night teeny-weeny little room sitting here with bombs dropping all over yeah that's small and tight and cramped it won't hold lot of people but I tell you it bombs to dropping you'll sit real close if you have to but you look at this look at this view and the Sheep I coming down here see what's in here I don't know and here we are on top of the command-and-control bunker that we were inside see the heavy door on the rollers and in here I am assuming you had the radar find her once again remember when we went to fort MacArthur looked at the little metal plates on top of there look at this how thick this is this is the outside of the command-and-control bunker tons and tons and tons of reinforced concrete on top over your head protecting yourself all kinds of shelling it's amazing completely unlike what we found at fort MacArthur and what a view I'm expecting anti-aircraft cannon here either command and control and here's another bunker appears open that's interesting that's the old we can see in here enter to the Tobruk and I'm guessing I'm gonna see is shooting port closed on average it took the Germans three to four months only to build each bunker which is amazing considering the tons and tons of concrete needed to do such a thing today I doubt we would be able to build similar structures at the time and cost but of course when you occupy a country you get to have some say over how things are done here we're getting to another 15 millimeter cannon sitting here still got a little bit of powder on the casing but that's three of them in place still amazing structures let's go inside see what we can see in there meantime I'll go and I'll tell you something interesting there was no toilets in the bunkers when you asked that the centralized bathroom but if the bucket was under siege in some way well you expected to do your duty indoors all the same let's go in here it's presumably rather dark no it's not mother-daughter but it is very wet all right so let's try the other way the underground under the bunker was for spent shell casings of course you couldn't have them rolling around and you couldn't throw them out over the parapet because you know if you could we would see them this is entirely full of water the ship up there right now lined up with a cannon that's why it was built the Allies were during the war very busy with mining every Harbor available to the Germans the harbours right down here and the radars here back then were primarily occupied with locating the planes as they came in low than that of course it was ship radars in case they ever need to put the big guns to use amazing structure though as an historian I love the what the hell is that moment seeing something you haven't really seen before it's not staggering around in sheep dung I'm looking at this that's a different design that we've seen around before curious that what that is and of course on the way there's this which may or may not be open it is open oh well if it's open we're here let's pop down see what's in there I'm guessing this could be a guardhouse or it could be the aforementioned bathroom since no bunkers were built with a bathroom they had to go outside unless under siege in which case well you had a bite I am guessing this was an ammunition bunker so you could access it from both sides coming down there that is what I would think and sometimes you may wonder why the doors are so small a lot of these bunkers steel doors well generally still wasn't high demand and the Germans they don't have enough of it so you make everything smaller also a little safer that way but still amazing structures this is where a 15 centimeter cannon would have stood out in the open back that so I am assuming these are ammunition delivery systems the cannon was here was eventually removed basically the same type of bunkers or fixture as the big cannons we've already seen very interesting to note that the Germans did not have a plan for how the bunker system would look when complete every year they had a certain allocation of cement of steel and concrete to build and they would build what was needed and gradually every year increase what was what they were able to build there was no plan in place from 1941 on how they were going to develop this fortress 350 Germans worked here served here but it changed look every year that built something new as cement concrete steel was allocated to them and came up with new ways new improvements only on the second year building did they start on their creature comforts like shelter for the staff kitchen bunkers cooking so on so forth first of all it was about the armament and then gradually it became safer and developed don't know what's in here except a bird probably get really pissed off when I get in here today I do him yep he goes it is another personnel bunker it's a closed not restored over the coloring on the walls exactly as it was just faded there's another one over here landscape dotted with them and once again you can't blame them out here over the coast where else would you want to spend a war really Denmark is slightly wet so it's a little wet down there waiting for the summer come around have look of course all this would be covered camouflage netting sometimes they would line the walls of the bunker with wood to make it a little warmer a little less echoey this now all the bunkers of course had to have an air supply that was built in such a way that if you dropped a grenade in it it would slide right out without doing any damage there was sadly it's locked off however I can go climb the barbed wire up here see what's up here I'm guessing this is little to Brooklyn opening for machine gun could have been the radar keeping a gun up here can't see yet all right what had a machine gun in there landscapes interview interesting to look up what is in here main command bunker over there they had the ability to seal off all the bunkers in case of a gas attack this device here was the air purification in case the bunker was never shut up from the outside door sealed it was recommended that you would crank the handle 16 minutes every hour to get enough clean air in here to keep enough oxygen for everybody to work and live in here we have a filter so in case those gas outside it will filter everything happened I disbursed to here throughout the bunker amazing piece of technology today just on my way out of the fort I had to come up here and show you a phenomenal view anti-aircraft cannon down there and there were several casemates surrounding this case mates off anti-aircraft guns and we see down here in the pits the racks for the ammunition now these were put in place after World War two all have noticed the moment I took my jacket off it started raining just a sign that I'm extra cool or seriously stupid but we all know that three point seven centimeter anti-aircraft Joe a man's luck very interesting we were lucky enough for to traverse ah here's another project for for historians to restore restore this also working out make it fire shoot a movie here now down here you had the ammunition under cover but again you had a full view of the sky [Music] and here you go shooting port dark in here [Music] it's not dark dank gray like you love it [Music] so I'm in Jutland in Denmark visiting tensed home bunker Museum where the biggest guns were placed during World War two four thousand Germans occupied this area during the war it is an amazing place it is restored back to the way it was and there's several other bunkers that are not restored that are just as interesting for that very reason here you got one of the big guys but if you have a history interest you need to come see this it is well worth the trip but the grenades no boo tourists in the Train the waves of shells just to give you an idea how big this pit really was see the teeny-weeny small people down there behind me they're life-sized this gun was bigger than life we just took the ammo train what a nice run through this bunker the next one there's a third one over there it's amazing the whole area 400 bunkers in this tiny area alone and seriously like when we were in Aalborg a museum they're here again they built the museum on what is actually history the Canada bunker was right in here this is a whole new addition that they built in order to have things like this on display not to mention things like this on display it's a great place for kids to come and learn it's beautiful by the sea and somewhere they will have beer funny how searchlights they all look the same remember when we went to fort MacArthur this is just Frick nothing like learning history from the place it took place there's a lot of air battles taking place since for the British and American Air Force to get to German and be namenda they had to fly over Denmark many times which a while with fighter planes of the German air force was stationed they rebuild the whole bunker that restored it is now a museum back in the day this is where the ammunition train would come in so let's go have a look you know what it's like when you have to clean your got Miller ramrod to cleaning stick there's a cleaning stick for a very large cannon you now we're down in the pit underneath the where the giant cannon would be all the ammunition will be stored in these rooms in here those are little dollies and then fed up here where the candidate would be it says a Dan sham is not here anymore I can't explain what it's like to be down here there's an echo this is how big this pit is my voice actually resonates off the walls is amazing I couldn't even imagine what it'd be like to have this giant cannon up here fired it would be heard for miles and then some on the rails up here would be the back of the cannon for dick traversing [Applause] this is where you store some of the emanation obviously most of it restored off-site we've brought in here on the Blue Train store here to use these the other side of the wall the canvas out here and in a sample of some of the shells the training shell is four kilograms the actual shells were 800 that's nearly a ton imagine when that thing impacts and in here was the powder magazine with the enormous casings of the cannons of course you wouldn't store the powder in the same room as the projectile you don't really want those kind of accidents so you roll the powder out here go out there and everything would be assembled out inside the cannon itself voting on the breech in several stages this is the original ammunition train they will pull it out once a year give it a little spin so once 80 years later tell for the trailers that build quality and of course ever since World War one everybody prepared for the use of gas himself all the doors to all the buckler's gas tight you'd walk in here this is potent after another cold you have the medium room in here gasps walk it flows back you rinse off clean the air we go through here very funny things go to school Europe in Denmark when I was a kid you know I was kind of what their you guys don't look like don't know we're learning and here the group waters they set it up very nice display I'm saying that the guy there it's a little mustache a little wig you gotta give it to him you seen people they do have a sense of humor now it's spend a lot of time going through all the crew quarters and talking about them but I don't have to but this my buddy history hunter he went here before me and he documented very nice you find him on YouTube you'll see what I mean it's actually quite nice down here it's not dark dank gray like a lot of the regular bunkers they made it livable and some of them live down here for quite a while leaving a little repair they're huge everything down here this is big and honestly they're the creature comforts they have been he'd at a kitchen they make the roads that but showers everything that you need to live and it is huge down here here you have the terrain table of the whole area from a small 10 cent meter gun 17-member no guns tendon began to the be for cannons but the whole area as it was back then this is the trying table with the trenches with barbed wire with the obstacles with a lighthouse that is still there most of the local population was evacuated or sent barracks not far the radar once again this is huge now you don't think that all these were running and the crew quarters right behind you and to be some noise just a little bit or when we went to fort MacArthur we're looking at the American bunkers not really much security for the rare even here at this enormous fortress the Germans were always prepared to defend from the rare here's the door and here gather the gun making sure nobody gets in the ammunition train would pass right through the bunker unload gone to the next one next one next one history hunter you have one of these guys up in Norway I'm coming up there to see it well you better go there with the camera but this you got one I don't see that it's great to be able to visit a location that looks the way it did during the war where you can hear the history you can see and feel the stone and get a feel in a sense of how it was for those stationed there waiting for the invasion and for you to really appreciate World War two history you have to visit a place like this it is absolutely amazing to see and you walk through the nature not much unlike what it was try to find your way I get good infantryman will forgot my compass but I think I'm going this way mortar position down there bunker over here it's just it's an amazing environment and it'll never really do it justice to film it just on camera to actually visit a Historic Site in historic location were these things took place all these amazing things that were built so many years ago when things had to be done you just did them while your American British or German Russian you did what you had to do and you got the job done millions of tons of concrete and steel and armor duction you worked hard there was it was a sad time because there was a time of war but there was an energy about it there was a can-do attitude that we seem to have forgotten today because back then there was no such thing yes oh we can't do working too late it's too hard is too heavy it's too big it cost too much it just had to be done so it got done great generation here the railway tracks for the ammunition train now it comes down here where you actually have the entrance to I presume the other cannon bunker the door better not be closed just saying door better not be closed there's a ventilation and here's the entrance as you come down here see we'll sneak here for intruders untouched by history an unrestored huge underground complex in the dark just as if it was abandoned well 75 years ago here's the second one underneath the unrestored bunker still amazing it's an amazing view you get these cannons could shoot 55 kilometers out to sea nearly a ton projectile you see what the Germans picked this spot England's right over there these amazing structures need to be preserved because we will probably never build any of them again here's one of the other entrances to the bunker down port down here in the dark just amazing you could hear the echo there's nothing here nothing's restored get a little bit of light water on the floor just identical to the restored bomber steel doors still there it's amazing truly an amazing place I have to shoot a movie down here you see these big blocks that are lining the pathway up to the Kanna may think those blocks were bunkers but they're not these are the blocks they've built for the crane to lift in the enormous cannon a world war 2 historian who studied the war that conflict on all sides for most of my life it has really begun to bother me to see all the regular documentaries about that war because there's so much factually wrong in them and by doing my own I hope I can begin to remedy that for the next generation because when you have well-known historians doing documentaries or narrators and what you get is the little bits of information that is wrong about who did what or why or when and it is a shame but this do the research read the archives go through the source and find out who did what and why try to use the right footage when you're doing your documentary by the eastern front don't use footage from the western front from France it's not necessary there's enough of it but you have to be willing as historian as a filmmaker as a documentary filmmaker while are you doing a feature film or documentary you have to be willing to do the research and portray history the way it was honestly directly the good and the bad nothing in history is black or white by Goethe say it's green out here by the western sea you had these great cannon positions dug in and built by the Germans and preparing for the possibility of the innovation by the Allies thousands of German soldiers were positioned here cannons dugouts barbed wire and radar positions it was an amazing array of technology that was assembled at these small relatively confined areas and it's worth seeing I got to show you something amazing and it's not just all the running trenches that crisscross the landscape still it's amazing you go up here on top of this hill and you can see exactly why the Germans picked this spot it's flat you can see an enemy from far see all the curves in the landscape the bunkers out there down there over there just one huge dispense of position running trenches down here it's like a huge terrain table life-size just like when you're in view in the military we have terrain tables here it looks like one of them just this is life-size the trenches the bunkers the defensive positions it's amazing and it's in the most beautiful nature in a country that makes the best pastries in the world how could you not want to visit this not everything happened in France on our way to the ten point five centimeter bunkers they were counting for pointing that way sitting up here in the dunes overlooking the ocean simply everywhere this would have been such a fortified area no wonder nobody landed here it's a shame with all the graffiti and all the vandalism I have no problem being sympathetic with the arts but this is history of a different kind so the gun would protrude looking out over the ocean it's interesting it's interesting to note before the Germans even invaded Denmark they had spies up here disguised as painters looking out scouting for locations all along the west coast aware they were going to put these after the invaded same they did the same thing in France and Poland the Germans knew exactly what they were going to do once they got here or once they got wherever they were gonna go so well planned out well executed back there with the bad graffiti command and control controlling all the bunkers sitting here directing the fire at whatever may get in the way oh I can't help myself it's open what are you gonna do I gotta come in they try to block it up here with concrete and here you go shooting port dark in here dumbass no Sam didn't bring flashlight maybe well he didn't see the ground I'm walking Donna just coming through it's fairly small bummer comparative come out here there you go well the camera wasa and there's an under the bunker as well which would be very much more interesting if I had a flashlight with me hinges of the big armored doors coming through here and I know and you guys can't see a damn thing of this but it is super interesting to see how these were laid out perfectly planned for a reason and we're back out again we have a little walkway like this obviously this is where ammunition and things will driven up food bunkers hidden by the slopes be covered by camouflage netting like everything was but easy access to the bunkers for delivery of everything a lot of these were self-contained for a while something big over there small thing here and a whole wait what happened here look at if I stole things cracked I guess they tried to blow it because I believe not these things don't crack on their own they barely crack when you try to make him wow what a damn shame could have been a wonderful wine cellar for me let's see what's on top of this I thought I was behind no not here's the command bunker and again bunkers protecting the rare little roads Denmark called them German roads big or small same material laid out everywhere where the Germans went to have an army you got to be mobile so ever the Germans went before you build the bunkers fortifications you build a road to get there and to keep it supplied easily so the term German roads been coined that some of them are still in use today testament of the quality wish we could say the same thing about the roads in LA remember when we went to fort MacArthur little shooting ports low to the ground this will protect you and here the officers would keep an eye out on the ocean safe certainly from indirect fire coming up on top of the bunker here was a gun and you can see the back Paul the other bunkers fortifications the big guns were sitting up here you can't see them here radars throughout trenches still optical sitting out here perfect defensive terrain the Allies were to land down there come over this exposed terrain down into the bunker idiot like I am without a flashlight shooting port for protection and into the dark not that dark all right big space plenty of room come up here with the commanding officers would be give me an eye out see the whole area from here perfect okay metal coming down here slippery but when things start to give way you just start moving don't know what gave way in there once one things start drizzling from the ceiling you just go but of course I'm Harley guy I'm an idiot I go climb around old bunkers and Harley boots because that's what men wear hold these little spheres interlocking fire defense underground for ammo storage it's amazing to see this there truly is such a big piece of history from back then and it's still sitting here today reminds you and all real historians really it's not always enough to read books it's not sometimes you need to go to the place where things happened and see for yourself what was here get a feel for how it was used but for those of you sitting far far far away without the possibility of travelling like some oh so right now fortune not to do will keep filming this I know my buddy World War two history hunter on YouTube dusters passionately very inspiring and you can learn a lot from this and get a sense of what history looks like and still have the black Torah paint coloring of course everything was camouflaged from the sky shooting port again go inside the bunker time to trip double doors all those shooting ports tried to block it up obviously big enormous hinges for the heavy doors and I no longer here after world war two was over the local population stripped most of the bunkers cannons towers of the medals melted it down for their own use of course during the war civilians didn't really have access to a lot of metal this that was in use only for for the defense for the military so it seems only fair and the military reclaims all of the metal for the war effort when the war is over the civilians dismantle everything reclaimed the metal back to them however it is a little sad because it would be so fantastic to still see it in place no idea what I'm saying in middle of I am thinking radar radar or maybe a 5-inch gun this could be gun ports to keep the ammunition storage this platform does not look heavy enough for a very large cannon and if it was flak I'm surprised he'll be supplied by these all these bunkers maybe there's key inside to what it actually was no that's just one simple room I will go to the map see what I can find let you all know see what the big one is over here I go get some tea again shooting pork for anybody approaches from the back it must be said and I find this very interesting that the Danish and the German occupational forces got along remarkably well not that much really of a choice Germans had all the guns however for the most part they got along very well they work together just like in France they worked quite well together with the civilian population know why even the poles do degree work happily with the German occupiers everybody got along until after the war when everybody claimed to no longer have gotten along we were interesting how opinions change all right we'll be you want to come in with me here another shooting port and see how what's left of the rubber here heavy heavy doors somebody trying to burn something here it's sad when people they vandalize these bunkers and installations but I guess this is the problem is the young people they don't have a sense of what this is other then let's have a barbecue exactly and granted if I was going to go have a barbecue this is what a heavy gun mount looks like and I'm really curious to go underneath these bunkers but not without light not that I'm scared of the dark however so this is the landscape of a large part Denmark France Norway gotta go to Norway still have a huge candidates out there and the next couple of days while I'm here there's a couple other things I want to go see it what is this then you come to this denilla nowhere so entrance I'm guessing he would be a machine gun bunker so I'm looking for a hole here's the hole is an impression here it's overgrown standing on a little what I think probably a little bit bigger than that you're Brooke bunker but is there didn't expect to find it there just walk through stumble over room there remain some World War two and that is what all historians should do get off your couch get away from the poorly made documentaries grab your camera got film it yourself show to the rest of the world share what you actually see out here all right I'm here at the big bunker at the bridge at Angus on what makes this interesting is that it was a flak bunker where the Germans put it up because there's a bridge behind me and on the other side of this bridge there's another bunker however they built it this high because the water as you can see down there sometimes rise is quite high on the bunker is in fact a fairly full of water but you can still go in there still open what the Germans did that was interesting and particular different about this bunker is they covered it up with brick regularly red brick like you see down here so it was disguised as a regular house so covered up with it from the air there's a crew of 9 and 20 millimeter flak on top there's 1500 mines planted in the fields around here and again another one on the other side because they were waiting for bad drivers I guess we had them back then as well they were ready for they're expecting the British to land on northern Jutland so they one of the Germans to cover all the bridges on the way this is one of the crossings as fumarole here this was built here to secure the crossing on one hand also shoot down Allied aircraft it was disguised as a building was make it really interesting and rather different you don't see much of that except some of the rhetoric masonry is covering it up you still go inside but I'm not wearing rubber boots so we'll take that next time here we are on the other side of the bridge where you can see what the Germans did to really disguise this as if it was a regular red brick building this most houses in Denmark ever for the past hundreds of years were built in red brick here's the bridge from here behind me and or somebody has rebuilt this bunker into something a little bit more functional I guess actually put windows in it that's very different but it gives you an idea of blocks and everything's I guess it's a on one hand a little bit of a shame that they rebuild these well you have a hand it's a great way see how do you live with your World War 2 bunker here we go and it's interesting because the bunker on the other side of the bridge was built higher up this one is quite low you can see the water is right down here it rises quite rapidly and it's full of water and here you can see the masonry how the Germans disguise this with the red brick that's so common in Danish buildings and here a heavy concrete of the actual bunker underneath so they literally built a little structure on the outside of the bunker to disguise it and one would think that two identical structures on either side of a bridge may not fool anybody from an aerial photograph however the flat gun was up here they put windows in the bunker and here on the other side is a second one which I'm guessing could be command and control maybe another flat bunker I'm not entirely sure let's see what it says another regel bio bunker the bridge is over here first bunker over there flak bunker here and here is the ammunition storage which I'm guessing also had some sort of defense on top yeah I did hungry come up from a little too Brook style bunker port well you have the metal railings with a machine gun what's it the roof of the ammunition bunker over here overlooking the bridge not the biggest tallest guys we've gone here I don't know this an opening to this bunker built in 1944 to store the ammunition for the two flak guns and I'm surprised because the water is very low I will be surprised if it's not in one way another full of water but I don't know where the actual entrance is and it might be closed up this is very flat sided bunker with hard edges on the corners very unlike what the Germans usually did it's high up it's exposed it's built in layers and obviously somebody put a modern door in there and I guess we're not invited but again it was disguised as a regular building probably the flat roof because they counted on the disguise and put on a regular roof I'll look for more photos of this so we're going to food and the opposite side of Denmark we're a really cool ex-military dude that I really really like he also sells coffee by the way he's taken up almost entirely upon himself to restore this museum get it built get it run and get everything in there host reenactments and marketed it was an amazing place back in the day when the Germans decided to turn this little area into an airport station a bunch of people and build a bunch of bunkers so come on have a look see what he did good buddy of mine from the Danish military yes he is now the curator of a World War two museum he's building up that's exciting there's some really cool stories in there but he is also the curator of a Cold War bunker turned into Lucille it was left exactly the way it was at the end of the Cold War and you gotta remember the Cold War was decades of the possibility of a nuclear holocaust World War three tomorrow around the corner and some of you guys especially the young ones you have no idea how close we got to the brink on several occasions and when and if chips went down there's a whole underground structure bunkers thousands of them throughout Europe and America Russia that was ready to accommodate military police law enforcement civilians government to go hide underground in nuclear bomb shelters and still run the country still handle emergencies and still fight the expected onslaught of the Russian military it is a fascinating step back in time nothing has changed even the phones are back from the 70s you've got to see this you've got to show your kids because your kids will grow up in a world where history education is not as good as the one we had back in the day you got to see this kind of learn how to teach business otherwise you're gonna have it again [Music] interesting places got some neat details there that I haven't seen anywhere else in April 1940 Germany invaded and occupied Denmark and it wasn't soon after the Germans arrived before they started building and construction of bunkers and airfields in in Marvin's don't miss 9th Napoli London some shots today are not a vacation back some Nancy Kashyap and America is in the Airstream deutschen totin in Copenhagen London [Music] he is in 1943 as the war effort turned against Germany orders were given to fortify the country further new airfields and bunkers were to be constructed and built and in the small town of belching on foon the Germans paid off all the local inhabitants to get out so they can build a huge airfield fortified with command bunkers let's go have a look and see what's still there today one of the things the Germans did whenever they got somewhere is they started building things they build runways they build roads they built buildings barracks bunkers bunkers everywhere and a lot of these things like this you can't just move it or rebuild it a lot of the roads were just repaved over the years but they started as German roads the Germans built their way through World War two got this big command bunker and this whole this area was under German control and the interesting thing is they never really fenced it in with barbed wire so the resistance sort of could come through the local train from one another damaged the other went right through so they would just jump on the train and go right through the airport take pictures do some sabotage but we'll talk about that more when we get to the museum listen and as we're walking into the forest you just see a remnants of World War two everywhere so I'm guessing this was the defensive area for the next bunker yes so every bunker had its little circle a barbed wire and an guard yeah and this is where that started yeah and minefields yeah I'm guessing thank God I have that in mind and those forests like this in here or was this in the open air okay but these things were built to withstand bombs and shells and the walls are three meters thick and also the roof it's it's thicker than normal the normal size of World War 2 bunker is 2 meters but here on helping it's the 3 meters because couldn't get it on the ground the soil is too moist so they built them on the ground and the if the war was continuing they even would have built slowly yeah sorry okay so everything pretty much it's sitting out in the open so you can see it from the air so we built it because we expect someone's gonna bomb it and they're gonna make it they build up to last so all these mounds of dirt around here is that just build up later or is that every time I'm the forest in Europe I see a mound of dirt or a hole in the ground of my bomb crater so the running French what is that what could that have been oh you your pipes just burst alright that's not interesting nevermind we've all seen the World War two films with the GIS that crawl on top of the bunker and dump in a grenade now the Germans knew this is a possibility so they built fake ventilation shafts some of them are real some of the fake and some of the real ones inside have a little tube so a grenade will roll back back out it was really well thought through and always said that the Germans had a plan for exactly where ever they went when they got there they had made the plan of what they were gonna build where the guns were gonna be pointing nothing was left to chance in the main room of the command control bunker by the airport there's some really interesting features that you haven't seen a lot of places yes well let's let's go talk about this here in one of the main rooms where they had a whole lot of equipment sitting and what do they do to for example Germany or other considered bed man but here because of all the new tracks it wasn't this one they had to have some special floor it was made of asphalt and a rubber because there was so the static electricity was so heavy that the German soldiers get headaches except with there was so much learning going on with so much new technology that we're looking today there was we just take a grant that we all the installation of wires and materials we don't have this to live in bunkers but we know because determine sort of figured it out and also for this we even in Denmark gets really really cold so you see that when they build the bunkers that put wood in here this is one of the few months I've seen what you have that wood built into the bunker walls where than you insulate the whole thing with a wood wood wood paneling and it's nice little details it's a really cool place this is pretty much how it looked at that time moist what the voice yeah yeah of course another thing the wood would do it would keep it from resonating because it gets kind it gets loud in here and everybody was separated have little slit there for passing papers into with the officers quarters yet two officers one commanding in here and have interesting samples of barbed wire from that time and I can't wait you guys are gonna restore this whole thing this whole area donations are welcome yeah and if you happen to have a spare tank or vehicle or plane please donated hip with this it's gonna have a nice really nice place to sit this was an airport during World War two that the Germans started building late 44 they kicked out all the Danish inhabitants and moved in 800 troops and at the end of the war a whole lot of planes from Prussia came over and landed here so you had a whole lot of different planes sitting on the tarmac all different types and that must have been an interesting thing to see the British came and looked at all the planes took the good ones the special ones to back to to Britain and destroy the rest here in Denmark there was tons of place very good things we could have used thanks British allies and up here you got the periscope dad I don't think I've been digging through bunkers since I was 5 I've never seen a functioning periscope and here they will have one and they'll install it when they put it all together and I want to come and I want to look to that because that was just a lot of the bunkers they had in there they had the periscope sitting so they could sit down hear what's going on and I've never seen one functioning so I'm looking for that oh you gotta love guys in our toys that are loud but this is where the guys served and here you can have a machine-gun access control and he's going to put another machine gun in here that's semi functions how many people worked in here 79 people it was a kind of there were workplace and when they have the 12-hour shift they get back to L salute to write to their girlfriends order made their socks or something like that new Jean okay okay so eight to twelve is that including the security detail no organ then have the car then the guard detail I love it because it's still original or what it sort of what it was and you got to love these places and here again access control the main entrance to the bunker and you come out here and you see the big boy he asked myself why I keep doing this and I keep forgetting a flashlight because it's not like it's not dark in here but it's dry it's clean it's above the water line which is cool and hear the echo so imagine if you had 12 people working in here in machines and radios going that's why you want to insulate the walls and the ceilings so the voices don't carry after all we've got to keep secrets that's its way to underground hangar right I will next time what is underground when we talk about how far the Germans were not this that's central heating that's central heating this is how this is our run of war in a cold you have central heating not the glue ovens and this was built in late 44 when resources were scarce do you ever still knew what they were doing and they built quality and every year the museum plays host to a vast variety of living history events world war ii aircraft will land re-enactors will show up with vehicles tents that bring the weaponry in the uniform of the day so you get a feel for what it really was like back in the deck you should bring your kids so they can learn what was so they can tell the next generation all about it it's a great place as a great museum great events come meet some really cool people the Germans took the whole place Airport and now they're gonna fill this into the coolest museum then they possibly can get funding for we're back to the donation party and also if you have a spare tank or no world your aircraft they would love to have a sitting out here alright now we're back to the flag thing ever since brothers war we had joked about the 50 star fly here is a real world war to fly with 48 stars the Germans used this when they buried American airman shot down so if the Germans actually gave the American airman a proper ceremony when they're shot down over here over Denmark and they used this flag with 48 stars now we know to get one so no more comments about the wrong flag professor [Music] one of the things you know about Denmark if you are a fisherman you really don't want to catch one of these mustard gas bombs that was dumped overboard everywhere in the Danish oceans my my granddad was the head of the shipyard oven oven all Borg mustard gas bombs always the fishing nets that's what they look like where this thing come from it was actually it was going to be carried out to say to Norwegian for against the invasion but the little ship was on it was carrying about a hundred of these empty cases of okay bones you know the real bombs and then there's the ship was attacked by American day fighters and the supersonic and those who was floating was flown in to watch the land and Danish would you call it father handle took it and put it up in his attic and several years later the Sun came and fought well this one I have to get it to my place I put it in his car and drove to woods and put it in his garage and there it stood for many years again and someday he thought maybe we ought to have a permission for that and then they he called the Danish army and somehow he was coming through to answer phone or phone answering machine and then he said to the Machine hello I have this 250 [Laughter] the the things truck team came and with some stuff yeah thank you what I who doesn't want to have a bomb in the garage in fact during World War two chemical weapons were never used in battle after the horrific memories and effect of their use during World War one however chemical weapons were always present just in case and in 1943 at the port of Bari in Italy an unintended release of chemical weapons happen as the SS John Harvey the U at World War two Liberty ship was bombed by German aircraft it was secretly carrying mustard gas because the Allies wanted to keep it secret they never disclosed their deadly cargo to any of the fire fighters seaman that was fighting the blaze therefore solving horrible injuries and number of death [Music] was this the radio tower for the bunker over here no no it's the open tower in Owens it was North modern Europe's highest tower bunch of left overs from little belt bridge oh yeah but the German anti-terror cops blew up they blew up their own Tower oh that was a Danish town okay so we build a good okay well that makes perfect sense so this is all the what do you call it airman yeah who banished over over feet flat lieutenant pillar was in his sterling short sterling Bamba on a mission to kill I think and it was attacked by my fighters and shut down near middle thought that's a funny name but that's the name work at vanilla font and was crashed seven of his crew members was killed and also we won and we got each day across gotta remember the thing about Wars people they die this whole clean nice non-lethal munition type of war yeah get away to war that was German propaganda Ryu Griffiths thought that propaganda was the better way to to inform people about the Nationalist Party and their yeah philosophy six philosophy they produced three millions of these kinds of small radios and so people could listen to music and also Messi's propaganda it's called a good snouts a and there's a little if you look at this gala you can only receive German stations no BBC no no there was a note here saying if you're listening to BBC it's you can and that was the thing everybody listened to the BBC both of the news and for the music secretly hiding in their attics sitting somewhere down low and I remember all the stories from Europe everybody was sort of trying to get it mostly for the music this was instant news and instant information the old teletype or telefax came to fax machine this is how you would tweet back in the day if you 19 you don't get it I get this is how you would have a typical little home typical little resistance home where part of the resistance was spreading information and propaganda to the other side had the prints and obviously if you were caught in your house with one of these things you would have a very bad time and it's really this is fun for me because my granddad after the war build a summer house and had one of these these one of those sitting in the summer house and even a rack with different plates I recognize a lot of these things when I grew up which is actually kind of freaky but kind of cold all right guys here I don't know how we got to talk about toilet paper back in the day which was invented I think it was first reference was a year 385 toilet paper back in the day I'm not that old but I remember what school I went to had this shiny on one side and sandpaper around the other side Jack's just sitting World War two toilet paper you lucky when you had it and the 80s when you had it you feel so lucky you still see today you're just [ __ ] out of luck and during the war pretty much everywhere those occupied were those fighting there was rationing of all different sorts of things rubber food and sugar and leather and so he started improvising this these shoes are actually made from fish for one of the flatfish that we have so many up out here it's hard to ration fish when we have a whole sea full but this is this is interesting I've never seen shoes made of not even scale a flatfish don't have scale they have skin like yeah thick skin like you like a snake this is visit interested really cool you really get to improvise through hard times and I can only recommend at some point down when you raise your kids give them a couple of weeks at hard times where they learn how to improvise and take the phone away and see how you do without Twitter now I went to school out here in Denmark during the very latter stages of the Cold War and it's it's one of those things that's really remote for you teenagers today special in America don't everything's so far away you don't care about history but back then every Wednesday you tested the air raid of the emergency sirens which looked like this and I got to tell you crack about for you every Wednesday this is this is kind of what we what we were listening to [Applause] but it is really loud all over Denmark every Wednesday Paula thought these were tested for a minute set your watch by it and we did just a reminder that [ __ ] could happen and you need to be prepared for it and I got to tell you what the recruits we have today you whine about [ __ ] being heavy you take one of these things and you take that into battle with all the ammo what they would carry back in the day I will not hear you whining about things being too heavy so again so what we're looking at here some stuff the what's drop-down from the British under the occupation of course it's for the dish we yeah u.s. carbine Sten guns Bren guns and old american rifles and they would drop these canisters with weapons and explosives radios ammunition so they said this what we call it burning fuses it's still functioning it can burn underwater and yeah it still works all over occupied Europe the Allies would drop everything from single-shot revolvers to all the weapons all the different resistance groups and they'd go wreak some havoc and on the Germans and blow things up and do some assassinations and all those nasty things and there's a really interesting story that we go to is telling me about the the priests resistant fighter gotta go hear that story the priest also referred to as the dynamite priest his little group blew this thing I was one of the trolley cars that was used out here by the airport local pastor Peterson he got a little grouped together and started blowing up German armaments and trains and rails and whatever he did and there's a movie in that there there just has to be [Music] now during the Cold War just like world war two they build bunkers in for the civilian population in every city every major city of a big town had bunkers in the World War during the Cold War but now we are literally in the middle of nowhere it's a very small town how many people are here 50 50 people there is a civilian bunker they built out here in the middle of nowhere for the Cold War that's sitting right here and we don't really know why do we know what any idea and it's not it's not a post-world war ii german build they built this Danny standard for the Cold War literally in the middle of nowhere for the civilian population and we don't know why and that's very interesting and it's open which is more interesting so now we are looking for your flashlight because the bunker was gas and to get protected they had a device inside they could turn around so they suck air from the outside into the bunker and it was ventilated through a Santa big sand filter look oh yeah the f it through and was clean they hoped they hoped so do we know what year this was built that's interest I mean the coal was just really heating up and you see this round building it's not very big you could maybe uncomfortably sit 40 people in here 50 I was guessing on the 40 this is the emergency exit and you kind of looking at this bunker with a hole in the roof this was not a like a military bunker that was expecting impact on top of it this was a bunker that would withstand a blast somewhere on the side at little and it was it was a dome which is always stronger as we know it are arches this is this is interesting more to the story of why this thing is here and these were built all over the landscape during the Cold War it's in the big cities not out in the middle of small town 50 people story will continue when we figure it out if we do it was not long after the end of the horrible fighting in World War two before the former allies turned on one another when it became apparent than Stalin's Russia had no intention of giving up any of the claims to territory they achieved during World War two and assume a cold war became apparent a war that of all cost could not turn hot after the invention of nuclear weapons so resulted in a whole lot of small proxy wars fought by the former allies all around the world however in the middle of all this there were spying entry and always the possibility of the cold war turning hot because on every tarmac in East and West the bombers were ready loaded with nuclear bombs just for the word to go and destroy the other side in the middle of this there was all the small European countries that fortified bunkers underground in order to cope with the possibility of a nuclear conflict or a Russian invasion or the very real threat that the Cold War would turn very hot right on top of them in Denmark there's 125 those small command centers ready to cope with a Russian invasion or nuclear war let's go visit one of them fascinating snapshot of history in the middle of the small Danish town little houses been here for a while and over here is the school and under the school is a big Cold War bunker now during the Cold War it was expensive back then to build these big installations that were in under every major city there was a command center something that was a remnant of how the Germans had worn in command centers during the war it was adapted for the Cold War because it worked and of course if you have to build a huge underground bunker build it under something you're already going to build like a school or Hospital that's also prone to maybe not be the first thing on a bombing run see this that doesn't belong for a school see the antennas up here most schools don't have those and now you got a little hole in the ground most schools don't have these these were built in preparation for if the Cold War went hot manned by 20 people in times of crisis actually 40 but 20 active nuclear-free solemn and Danish you see this is a bit newer in the construction that what we're used to seeing and the world war two German bunkers and these are roughly put in in every major city or a city of we have an industry that was important or bridge connection something where you needed to be able to command and control crisis invasion or really waiting for the Russians to come this is a remnants of the Cold War there's 125 of these waiting for the day that the Russians might come and this is where the battle would be guided from or the disaster s assuming civil defense Falls some of the things that was operational all the way through the Cold War was a direct lineage the Germans developed in their bunker warfare not quite as thick not expected to directly impact however this would survive a Hiroshima sized nuclear device within 100 metres in from here and of course under pressure people supposed to live here for 30 days that's the thickness of the wall so you have this the outside now you're coming this is the airlock and then the actual inside bunker CERN here in case the city net went down this could provide power and electricity for the Bombers functional radios heating food and everything and it was almost expected that this was in time of war so things would stop working that we were expecting the Russians to to bomb and land maybe nuclear bombs would go off you'd behind and here you could command and control obviously would have you on your own power station your own water for limit for a while for 40 people in 30 days not much not much no no showers have a look and see what we get and here's the double doors you could actually feel the airlock and this whole thing and you come in here this is nicer and cleaner than the German bunkers were used to seeing but this is cool you coming here can you can hear the air what you trying to do is generate pressure inside the bunker to keep air out keep dirty air out nuclear air in case you had a chemical attack if there's a blast outside you have these would alleviate the pressure and then shut you'd have enough diesel to run the generator for 30 days and this we've seen enough German bunkers this you recognize you exactly what this is would hand-cranked face you have to clean the air the old supplies you have supplies 30 days how much concentrated tomato soup you can eat for 30 days this is exactly this is how it was supply and in here signal communications with all the equipment that was present during the Cold War from the typewriters to the teletext to the computer of the day and this is really interesting here's a map over Denmark divide in the in the regions seven regions had a little island out there and if there was an overflight disaster there was something to report there's a police officer that was sit here and operate and he would light up the different sections as a plane would go over calls on call it off signals to the people in the second room this one this was the signal so the guys in the next room that a change was made or deleted from the map because underneath every one of these stations there was a Danish national radio station transmitter under they had their own bunker on the ground so they could keep transmitting so you had an actual radio that will transmit news as much as they could for as long as they could and hiding behind the radio see the little box back there that was the secret you know when your high-tech radio on your new car stops playing music and you get a alert of an accident or something that little thing that does that they had that back then and now we're looking back at the 60s we had the old hell attacks get messages coming to and from they'll be communicated around I'm back in the day the billow hole punch cards this is the next step of what you have seen during war work here you'd have volunteers would be sitting here taking calls from the the population at large the city outside calling in and all this would be coordinated and all these rooms are exactly identical to the other hundred twenty-five command-and-control bunkers throughout the entire country and you can actually hear the pressure so nothing with the outside comes in map of the area you come in here this is where staffs of the the government would said you have the police who sit here you probably have them from the mayor's office them from the hospital the National Guard the operational section you had this is the this is the brain of the area and on the other side here's the map that's mirrored on the other side same with the radio so this is the Situation Room and we come down here this is so and this is so hardcore low tacky music like well we're used to looking at videos from NORAD and all the big computer screens when NORAD goes down to an EMP and your cell phone stopped working and all that crap doesn't work when [ __ ] happens this will work this communication will still work to this will still work today if we really have to this is how you'd use signal here you had your squad cars there's a unit got called in if you'd move the unit that you'd take the sign and you move along but over here and you're right where he went when he's done he would radio in here on the road on the way home and finally back here he's back home this is how he kept track with your squad cars worse or the civil defense forces overhead projector most of you kids today don't know what an overhead projector is you may have seen a blackboard and if back then but here you wouldn't have a Wikipedia or Google if you need some information you'd go to the books this is the Wikipedia of the day and you would look up if you needed some information and here you're supposed to be hot bumpkin they would have bet bets in here the emergency exit just like the World War two bunkers stayed all the Germans made a little exit this is a little more comfortable filled with sand so if [ __ ] happened and you had to get out that way you dig your way up you got the sounds of war going on out there you would occupy this and be operational if the Russians cross the border started overflights in the in the 50s they're actually activating the bunker down here is that correct and anticipate after the Russians went in Eastern Europe so you had people sitting down here what about during the the Cuban Missile Crisis I don't know it's scary to think that in 1952 only seven years after the World War two barely during the the Korean War we were so sure that the Cold War where the Russians was gonna turn hot 1952 we were printing ration stamps preparing to have to hand them out they're sitting in a bunker up here we are a nun foon but in 1982 during the NATO exercise called April Archer so much communication had gone on with a NATO and remember everybody was spying on everybody had Russian spies everywhere and American spies everywhere everyone spying on everybody the Russians were so sure because of this massive NATO exercise here in Europe that we were actually preparing to launch an attack the Russians actually had their planes loaded with fuel and nuclear weapons ready on the tarmac that had guys watching the launch sites just to see if we went hot that's how sure they were that we were gonna actually attack that kind of scared us so much that the ration stamps instead of sitting in one bunker they were actually distributed to different ones so they wouldn't all get destroyed the same there's a lot of instances in history where the Cold War was really on the brink and you've never heard about it that's interesting about history's a lot of things you haven't been told you don't know or you have to dig through places like this to learn and you need to and you need to bring your kids here because they need to know exactly what we came from and what could have happened speaking of go to youtube check out the Norwegian incident speaking of times where the Cold War almost went south this is so rudimentary but it will work and it will work if we ever need it to again nothing more and there you little bit of sample Russian uniforms because Russia was the hardcore enemy of the day and a bomb-proof toilet nuclear safe because you had a little canteen you have to eat you had diesel yet food you're arrogant water just no long showers that you could sustain life and operate and the Russians were so prepared that you go through Eastern Europe you go to go to old East Germany go to Poland you Don the basis when the wall came down you'd find street signs in preparation of the Russian invasion of Europe that they were going to advance and pluck the street siding to change the names of all the streets so they could find the way around and they had invasion plans nuclear plans they knew exactly what they were gonna do where they were gonna go and we did what we could to prevent that the Cold War was it was a very strange time that I think most teenagers they they don't really understand so what yen's is gonna do it's turn this into a active museum we can bring school classes in here and and show them what it was and listen and learn like put them in the scenario well some of this pupils are the mayor and the policeman and some from the Home Guard and so forth and then they have to run through a scenario of the crisis and run war for not at all but we still remember the tail end of that history of knowing that she it could happen and if you learn these ways of communication if it's the the old teletext are the old rotary phone or the old radios if you can survive with Morse code and you can live of the land so to speak and communicate in command and control with a map and a compass then you have a chance because we are so dependent on electronics today all it takes is a little EMP and you got no electronics you've got no cell phone you got nothing and I was scared when I saw some of the recruits abating basic training didn't you learn map and compass because it had a GPS remember electronics will fail you when you absolutely need them and then you're moving back down here then you have to know how to learn and survive on the basic skills of having to break out if the walls crumble around you we had guys down by the water with these to measure the wind distance the direction so they could report how strong the wind was what direction I was going in case there was a nuclear cloud coming from say the main island shell and they'd been a nuclear explosion C was drifting this way or the other way and I remember vaguely during the incident of Chernobyl when the Soviet nuclear reactor went sideways and we started measuring these increased levels of radioactivity here and one of the things we were issued in the arm bag themselves was the trace paper they have to have to put on you so you could see if you were near radiates radiation and I believe chemical as well and this little thing was for the small civilian shelters to create pressure to the dirty air out you will connect this to holes like the like like the shelter we went to would have some of the one of these sitting there so you could manually generate pressure inside and keep the dirty air out this was really really interesting and to think that for all those decades people were ready to hide them around all over Europe waiting for the Russians and now we're looking at provocations of these to see the Russians are pushing a little bit so never know what the future may bring but you have to learn from history there's a lot of lessons to be learned in a lot of history so good luck read a book [Music] all right that's it for Denmark for this time now I am starting to plan a nice trip around Poland Germany Austria Czechoslovakia as some dedicated World War two locations that I'm really looking forward to bringing to you there's a part of the World War two history that you may not know even mainstream historians there's a lot of that war if you haven't been told and a lot of it is still there just hiding underground or a little bit out of you I want to take you guys through some trips there and show you what you don't know so you can tell your children or just force them to watch my videos yeah now I've gotta remind you of something one thing is yes I'm a card-carrying historian but I would spend a lot of time to the military I'm still in and one thing I don't like I don't like walks on history my intention is to break down every barrier I can because I want to see what's behind the locked doors I want to find what's in the archives that they haven't told you I want the truth behind history I hope you enjoyed showing my shows my movies I put up please subscribe to my channel hit me 'like donate if you feel like it and if you have any suggestions of things you'd like me to go see do film talk about drop me a note down below and i will follow up as soon as I can and do whatever I can to keep you guys entertained have a great day

Channel: Lost Battlefields w Tino Struckmann

Views: 37,397

Keywords: ww2, tino, struckmann, military, bunkers, german, war, museums, interesting, celebrity, actor, colony, cis, brothers, normandy, denmark, history, occupation, d-day, reenactors, army, soldiers

Id: rOFyJ_OLkRA

Length: 121min 26sec (7286 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 06 2019