The German Art of Bunker Building - WW2 Special

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Yet a Japanese cave works as well....if you got the cave system 🤷‍♂️

How Long Did It Take To Build a Bunker? How Many Men?

Medal of Honor Airborne’s Death Star flak tower was my intro to the concept

I find fortifications interesting. I've read a few books on them that cover the bronze age to the Napoleonic wars. Granted it was to make my D&D games more interesting. I would love to see how this engineering history could inspire a Fallout Berlin game.

It would be interesting to see how the WW2 era bunkers and fortifications compared with the Great War bunkers. Also Japanese construction of bunkers. Then there are the civilian shelters. How do they compare in construction? From the War on Humanity videos I get the impression they lacked this level of engineering. Yet the most sophisticated bunker was for a guy that did not use them until he was backed into a corner. A lot of children could have benefited from that construction effort.

If AA in slang is Archie, then a flak tower would be an Archie Bunker? 🥁

So I thought that Germany didn’t care at all for people who didn’t fight for hitler, so why would he and his inner circle build bunkers in city’s that could house innocents? Because I thought that they just built bunkers for high ranking people and hitler himself and their troops not all of their people or am I wrong on that?

Fascist's egos are their weakness and leads to a horrible consequence for their sheep like followers.

Nothing changes. Fast forward 20 years, and Americans are building bunkers under their backyards, not to mention Cheyenne Mountain

great informative video...

They were / are very efficient

My buddy owns two WWII civilian air raid shelters in Germany when the government started selling them off. It was his dream for many years since they were pretty much locked off after the war, I went over to tour some of the bunkers and it was really a time capsule with logs written on the walls and things furnaces with german markings right where they left them. Anyway he turned one into a warehouse and had to cut a doorway for a garage door and that was a monster job. I went back a few years later to check out his work progress and saw the cross section of the wall. It was super thick with that poured concrete and filled all over with rebar. It was all built to last because it was all like new and a bear to cut though. But he was able to make a flat out out of the top floor and have a great spot to have a party on the roof.

Imagine the amount of potholes you could fix by putting that amount of money, time and energy into completing a simple task...

And then the East Germans standardized guard towers

Flack tower! Flack tower! Flack tower!

German bunkers in areas with high water tables had to use 3 times as much concrete, to counteract buoyancy. Otherwise your pillbox is a cement boat and will float itself out of the ground.

I think they made a metal 1 which survived a naval volley but killed the people in it anyway from the sheer high impacts to the shell

great!

bro, your dad has to have been rodney dangerfield

My late father was an civil engineer and officer of the engineer troops in WW2 and he built a few of those bunkers. He explained to me that those bunkers were made of an hard, reinforced inner concrete shell, with a thick layer of not reinforced soft concrete on top. A bomb would dig in and exhaust its energy by blowing the outer layer away and not cracking the inner one. These damages could also be easily repaired.

If you like this stuff, check out Jeremy Clarkson's video about Operation Chariot, the commando raid on the St. Nazaire complex.

To say that the plan was insane would be.. an understatement.

Brilliant. Thanks

I'm born and live in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK which was the only one of two places in the UK the Germans occupied and we still have German bunkers scattered all around our coast line. They are fun to explore and are a reminder of what life was like during WWII

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The more I learn about the REAL world war (not the incredibly dumbed down story we get in schools) the more I realize the Germans were better in nearly everything related to science, construction and infrastructure. They were far more progressive and open to change then any other country at the time. I'm starting to feel the only reason they lost was because everyone else shat themselves in fear and joined together with their worst enemies to defeat them. It took the combined forces of Europa, America and the Soviets to finally push them back. Imagine if that hadn't happened. Would things have been worse? I don't know. I know my country could use some of that German infrastructure even 50 years later.....

I think its interesting that some of these flak towers made the Soviets think twice about attacking them during the battle of Berlin. This was mostly due to their ability to turn their guns downward as well as having walls so thick that they would be more trouble than they were worth

NW Danish WWII beach bunkers still intact. On some of them in bold graffiti is the welcome : "Zimme Frei" (room free). German bathers are not amused.

I just watched the video about German dog tags. As good as they were at other materials of war, that was a mess.

Is this the narrator for some of Eastory’s videos??

Excellent video.

The Germans had radar?

With the submarine pens the RAF used the 6 ton tall boys on them and they just went through them like a knife through butter. So they increased them to 30 feet of concrete on the roof. Same result. Also most of the workers were 10’s of thousands of slaves from the concentration camps.🇦🇺

This guy in this scenery could easy do a briefing in a Command & Conquer game.

should be building these in ukraine

bunker are build to last you say? hmm. living in Denmark near the IRON WALL. lets just say. +80 years later. and there are nearly non left. and of those that are left. are nearly gone. deep under sand.

These ww2 specials(green background) need to be placed into a playlist, I’ve only just seen these as I normally follow your content using the playlists as it’s easier to keep track of what I’ve watched

Keep up the good work, loved the Great War series, loving this series just as much

When does the bunker become fort in this case?

Germans really decided to build bunkers for bunkers so you can be in the bunker while you're in the bunker

It would have really been worth mentioning how much forced labor was involved in the construction of many (most?) of these bunkers. Many people were worked to death, which was definitely not "efficient" but crimes against humanity ("Vernichtung durch Arbeit" -- "annihilation by labor").