AMAZING GERMAN BATTERI VARA AND ITS BISMARK CANNON - STILL THERE!! 

Just stumbled upon this. Im that bearded weirdo you talked to the day you filmed this. Gonna keep an eye out for next episode.

Hi Tino....I'll gladly join in & echo the sentiments of most everyone else by saying...."another great presentation" ! Is great that some of this particular fortification has been saved & maintained in such good condition. Amazing to think of the sheer scale of resources of men & material that went into building & manning these fortifications, especially at a time late in the war when Germany were lacking both & being hard pressed on every front.

Awesome 😎 TINO, thank you so much for going to all this so I can watch as my Dad and Uncle where at this huge gathering we call WW2 and luckily they both came home with a few scares from being shot and one on one stuff, the stories I love so much are off corse the happy and funny one’s, thanks again TINO very much appreciated, 😎👍🇳🇿🌈😁😎 KIWI PIP 😎👍🇳🇿🌈😎.

I'm almost 60 years old worked construction my whole life , 10 weeks , wow , what it must have been like to be there constructing it, I can't rap my head around it.

i also appreciate the way you put pictures together of then and now for contrast , really nice

I've watched so many other World War RU-vid historians. They make excellent content, but what you're doing here showing us in real time and discussing how these installations were used truly brings it to the next level.

And another great one :) I remember touring the USS Alabama in '87... just a kid in college. That was amazing to me but I can't imagine the butterflies you had seeing that monstrous canon. I can't wait for episode 2. I dare you to knock on the door next time. Someone might answer !

visited the Hanstholm battery a few weeks ago and wanted to find out more about its sister battery, yous videos have convinced me to start planning a visit to Battery Vara. I loved visiting Hanstholm but Battery Vara seems even more authentic and "untouched". Thanks a lot!

Now you need to head up to Trondenes Fort in Tromsø :) there they have the largest ever cannon mounted on land. A 40.6cm cannon actually ment for the H battleships :) Thank you for this video! You are so informative and delivers so much details! Its a pleassure to watch! :D The bunker you thought was main firecontrol, is actually the communications bunker :)

Thank you so much for taking us on that exploration. It saddens me to see those historical structures being allowed to deteriorate.

I'm always impressed that big guns like that on ships or bunkers were able to hit a target very far away without GPS or any electronics. There had to be a lot of deaf Germans that were stationed there

Great episode, thanks for making that! What a place! Definitely going on the list of places to visit!

i wonder why people dislike content like this ? i mean ... you make an big effort for all of us interested , much appreciated , ill try to find stuff like this from my native country

Actually the battery was mainly fireguided by FuMO 214 radar on Flekkeroya - island hilltop. The spot is marked on google maps. You should visit Finland for some coastal gunbatteries also, Kuivasaari's twin turret of 12"'s, A museum from 1930's. The island fort of Örö, wich is nowadays a national park, also has the 4 12" gun placements with 2 of the actual single gun firing turrets in place.

I'd read that some of these emplacements were turrets salvaged from the Blucher after the fall of Norway/Sweden. Again another fine video. I love your passion for these forts.

I've been to Hanstholm. Now I've got to visit this place too! Great video.

Good Video, nice place to visit maybe sometime in the Future. Thank You.

Battery Townsley north of San Francisco in the Marin headlands had two 16 inch (406.4mm) and was built in 1940.

I told you so. Been there two times in the past 5 years, and still, I haven't seen it all. I`m going back there as soon as possible. Trondernes in Tromsø is also on my to-do list. Thanks a lot for doing the video of Mövik fort or Batteri Vera, as the Germens named it. Cant wait to see the nekst episode.

another great documentary again, thank u sir for sharing

Amazing!

Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for sharing this. As a child I remember seeing Movik. My father grew up in Kristiansand and remembers the invasion and occupation years well. Very interesting seeing the original pictures as well.

You should also visit Festung Lista, one and a half hour drive from Kristiansand :)

Thanks, a great show.

Loved part 1, Looking forward to part 2🙏 Very well presented Tino, good job🙌

Neato, good job.

Love it like you hate closed doors why oh why looking forward to the next episode

On my list of things as MUST sees.

Wow unbelievable to find a Bismarck type gun in situ-Bismarck was fitted with 8 of these- 4x2 380mm (15") guns main battery of the ship. It's no wonder that when wrecks of WW2 battleships are found they are normally without the main guns. They weigh so much so when the battleship capszises they fall out of the gun mounts, most are so heavy that they're put in just on gravity and rotate on ballbearings. Thank you for the video 👍

Top one Nice one !!! 10 week's!!! That amount of concrete would take months to cure off properly and harden I would be very suprised if Engineers could actually replicate the same nowadays in the same time frame and thats not to mention quarrying all that Granite thats the Bedrock there or looks like it Im also suprised that these big Guns weren't targeted by the Allies in a Bombing Strike as having the Kattegat sewn up like that its the sort of situation that Churchill would have found intolerable as firstlord of the Admiralty and im really actually quite suprised that they are still standing im sure they had a similar package of big Cannon in the channel Islands and you can see it there on jersey or Guernsey one or the other Anyway thankyou for going there Norway aint a cheap country and even a cup of coffee will set you back so cheers for saving us the cost ofgoing there ourselves!! Haha shame you couldn't just keep on truckin up the coastline as Norway has so much of that stuff all the way along its coast They did seriously worry about it being raided and the ore supplies cut etc Anyway thanks again and Happy New Year! Wouldn't it be fun to see one of those huge great Cannon firing again!! A right beast of a thing what is it about old Adolf and his big gun fettish!!? Maybe in his mind these were his "wunderwaffen"

in Guernsey they were to have 38cm but could not get them so they used 30.5cm which were hidden in things like a cottage. the Mirus battery I believe they were from a Russian Battleship. I should really look this up I just remember the tour we were on when I was a lot younger.

These were enormous guns. Coast artillery was a science; fire direction was critical because the rate of fire of the guns wasn’t that rapid and the target (s) would be moving. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area the enormous concreted positions for the giant guns are still there, although the guns were removed years ago. As with the one in this video, they were guns designed to be installed aboard warships. The ones here were available because the battleships they were to be installed on were cancelled as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty. So it’s important to remember that the warships would carry probably a minimum of six of these beasts, and in some cases eight, in armored turrets.

If you carry a torch and hammer from now on, will subsequent explorers hate you for tampering with history? ;-) Seriously, this was another good one.

Reminds me of the gun batteries around my home town that I explored endlessly as a kid. Marin headlands and San Francisco. It’s neat to see a battery with an actual gun in it though. Thanks

Thank you for the un-taught history of WWII. Here stateside all the is talked about is allied equipment and operations and not much about the other side. 👍👍😎

Awsome Thank you for the vid

Great content brother

Very cool Tino.. Thank you for taking us there ! Is it true that Hitler wanted Denmark, Norway and or Sweden because of *(heavy)* water for atomic weapons? I don't have a clue why I have that in my head but, I must have heard it somewhere.. Thanks again for a cool tour. Have a great day !

Hello everyone hope you all are well really enjoyed this Love this sort of thing i live in Binbrook Lincolnshire England 🇬🇧 and it's a little village which was called RAF Binbrook were the Lancaster Bombers used to fly from but all that is left is the old concrete runways and a couple of airplane hangers

Hi Tino What do you have great stories about the WW2. I've seen some films of the biggest Naval guns based on land. I've been looking at you're playlist and I can't find an episode about: Austrått Fort Lundahaugen, 7140 Opphaug, Norway. There the germans build a bunker complex with the largest cannon turret based on land. Hopefully you can see the Cannons sometime. Because you have the best explanation in details on RU-vid. Greetings from Ronald from the Netherlands.

I think it's good that they made a lecture theatre in the casemate, after all it will never be finished. To imagine the big gun in there, just look at the one outside.

That is madness, even back then. Been learning now. The British had drones since 1912

I wonder if there are any ammo train cars or engines in that shop at the end of the track?

I still don't know how they built such massive fortifications in so short a time....where did all of the cement come from? The forms had to be built, the cement sourced, the transportation of material, the pouring of material....just hard to imagine. I don't see that much heavy equipment in the old photos....cranes, bulldozers, cement trucks etc. The designs for each location, sourcing all of the metal pipes, doors, utility units etc.

@ 15:43 I don't recall seeing doors like that in any of the camps.

Hi! Stumbled in on your site searching for videos from Møvik. Was in Kristiansand in the army (1990) and at that time we used Møvik fort for different exercises. Been there several times later too. Fantastic place with a fantastic museum. When you were in Kristiansand did you visit Odderøya fort or other places nearby? The number of soldiers the germans had in Norway is a little bit uncertain, some sources says 250 000 men, others up to 450 000 men. Hitler was in need for the iron ore from Sweden, shipped out from Narvik and the heavy water from Rjukan. (To make the atomic bomb) Keep up the good work with your interesting tours! Best regards!

In connection with the Axis atomic program, I want to mention that there was a heavy water factory in Norway.

Who financed all these building projects?

The Americans were training up the 99th infantry battalion (separate). To be in the battalion you had to be able to speak Norwegian. The battalion was reviewed by Roosevelt. One theory is they wanted the Germans to know about it in the hopes it would keep more Germans in Norway

What a gun!!.. And in front of it, in Denmark there is another bunker, in Hantsholm with the same turret and gun... This is a pity the danes disassemble the 380mm tube after the war... But the bunker worth a visit!

Hi Tino.

Awesome ! The Germans didn't play games when they engineered/built these Fortifications & Gun Emplacements. It appears that they believed their own Propaganda and built these Complexes to last for a 1,000 years. It seems so quiet, but one can imagine the activity necessary to man just one Gun Position. Great Documentary; I imagine with a great boat ride. Thank you.

9:40 You can tell it is *German* camouflage. If it was Norwegian it would be red with blue crosses.

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Oh, my god! I hope the Germans didn’t shoot too noisily! 🙀🙀🙀😊👍

Numerous 16 inch gun batteries were installed on both coasts of the US during WW2. All bigger than this gun.

Unforgivable!!! How many tons?

The reason the Germans kept so many troops in Norway in part was because during most of the war the Allies let the Germans think that they would invade Norway, which is precisely why Germany kept troops there.

the amazing thing is the radar guided guns were technically still active until the 80s. they left them too long out of maintenance before discovering their value as historical artifacts and the bearings collapsed which is a massive shame. moving and withdrawing 200,000 trops is a massive logistical event with bottlenecks and mainland europe showed how easy it was to sabotage those movements. very few resouces to get those troops back. also like in france many will not have been A grade troops. france had whole battalions of down graded troops with dietary requirements due to injuries and wounds.

:) no locked doors please let the man in and investigate :D

Just amazing to see this Weapon still in place and now serving to teach about the Past ..great Vid Tino..

Did you stop and think that you were standing next to the biggest lightning rod every built during a thunderstorm? I wonder how Many times its been hit with lightning?

There would be AAA guns and other defencieve positions in the area.

Its Sister canon is in denmark hanstholm

One of Gneisenau’s turrets is also in Norway.

There's a Mirus battery on the Isle of Guernsey.

Locked doors should encourage you to studying lock picking and investing in a set of picks. Side note, you should never leave a key in a gas tight 2-3" thick steel door. Someone might think it fun to lock you in.

377,000 Germans isolated and ineffectual in Norway, plus another 35,000 in the Channel Islands what a difference they would have made in the defense of Normandy!

Is there a part 2 where u show us the gun?

It would be amazing to have IRON MAIDEN AC/DC OZZIE OSBORNE METALLICA playing out of that the world needs a world tour and TINO before it started talking about the bunker

I wonder how these would have be fought if the allies had flanked the forts north and south, and from behind with the fanaticism of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Or, if the Russians would have fought a holding action to invade from the flank for an alternative to the invasion of Normandy.

Kattegat!!...where's Lagertha ?

It's not "cement". It's Reinforced Concrete. Cement is the grey powder produced from the calcination of clay that hardens when water is added and serves as a binder for the mix composed generally of cement, sand, and broken stone. Reinforcement is the term for the steel bars that are laid and covered by the poured concrete, adding tensile strength to the structure. And yes, tar was laid on top to prevent the water from sieving through the concrete, which is porous, because if the water reaches the reinforcement steel bars these will rust and eventually cause the decomposition of the whole concrete mass. So, if you want my advice for the conservation of the structure, reinstall bitumen sheets on top of this concrete, because it is already looking pretty bad and decaying fast.

that's about 15 inches , was it ever fired in anger ? aye !

At 20:00 I can imagine that you could have a concert there

"were working to keep the memory of WW2 alive" yeah so pretty sure WW2 isn't in any danger of being forgotten!

It's amazing the lengths people will go to in order to kill each other. If only mankind could pour that kind of effort and resources into making the world better for all.

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This big cannon batteri was after Second World War in service to defens coast sistem Norway and she was broke before 1970 year, because batteri to have naturally seems object nazy...germany injeenirings did military objects very seriuosly and tecnologis...so far time to stay...

It's "cannon" and "Bismarck", guys!

to answer the question you asked, why did he leave so many here? It all stems from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Claymore and the effect of this. Norway was the backdoor to Germany, if you came in via Norway and attacked through Denmark, they would be flanked. And allied forces would walk almost straight into the German heartland with little to no real opposition.

They could of put RANDOM ROCK’S all over the tops of those..to hide them After watching hours and hours of your videos.. I’m amazed these guys lost.

not the largest mounted navel gun maybe in just Norway, Soviets had a 16 mounting near Leningrad originally it was a Test mounting for what was supposed to be the new Russian battleship which was never completed an hell even the Americans used 16 inch barrels mounted for shore defence near LA

Not sure how I'd feel in restoring and keeping it, if it was in my country and put their by invaders.

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30:20 Churchill never wanted to go through France and Normandy, he thought it was too risky and casualties high. Instead he wanted to go through Italy and southern front. It was Eisenhower who wanted it.

Better a cushy job on a Battery in Norway than in a tin coffin under the sea, or rotting away in some field in the Eastern Front. But what a waste of resources.

German need Iron on kiiruna sweden so it was must keep norway occupaid want german or not

All that wasted effort for man's stupidity.

ALL this video and never seen the breach WHAT THE FUCK OVER? BIG thumbs down!