Former WW2 Camp excavated - Everything still there! 

Yeah crazy to think about how much value a small coin was back then ^^ Sucks if you lost it...

We had silver 1 $, 50, 25 and 10 cents in Canada until 1969. I have a 5 gallons full of them. I don't know how much they worth but it's heavy. I also have few of what was called "napoleon d'or" those are French 20 franc gold coins. I think I have around of them, and few French ecus who date back to the 17 century. They're silver coins, and have old French Kings on it, Louis 14 and Louis 16. I don't even know what they're worth, but it's funny to have.

@@MarvinHartmann452 You definitely have a small fortune. there are coin melt value calculators online. You should sort them and count them, you'll probably be in for a treat. However, that doesn't even consider the potential numismatic value to coin collectors.

I live nearby (: Can you remember where? I can look it up for you and keep you updated (:

Oh yeah haha, its a pest. Even with repellent, after some minutes they're relentlessly attacking ._.

@@MetalMaxWW2 You really need to get some 3M Ultrathon waterproof insect repellent, it will not sweat off. And it works.

Luckily there was no fighting in this area. Thanks for watching

Where?

@@user-vt1cd7yh3u North Africa, im not exactly a nerd but I heard them say BF-109, lost intrest pretty quick cuz I was like 9.

@@darkstormww7479Nerd!!

Very much appreciated mate :)

Wow danke für die umfangreiche Beschreibung! Das werde ich definitiv mal mit dem nächsten Lederfund probieren, bisher nie Erfolg bei der Konservierung gehabt.

@@MetalMaxWW2 Ja das ganze ist leider eine schmierige Angelegenheit, am besten ziehst du dir dafür diese Einweggummihandschuhe an, so mach ich das immer.

Thanks a lot, surely is!

@@MetalMaxWW2 Certainly a spanish Ruby seized to the french army after June 1940. The Ruby was a regulatory pistol in the french army since WW1.

Well, its not like Germany isnt looted Haha. The past years many people started with the hobby and ww2 detectorists are most common. You gotta know secret spots like this one where no one has ever been. Other than that it's pretty moderate and frustrating as well ^^' Thanks for watching

@@MetalMaxWW2 How do you even find spots like that? Just look on maps for a place where there was fighting and just walk for kilometers and kilometers hoping to find something? I've been feeling pretty burned out the past few weeks as every place I go to in Czechia is either looted and only has ammo and bomb shrapnel or there's nothing at all on the spot almost as if there was no fighting there. And I can't believe you have so few subscribers, your videos are pretty awesome. I'll be binge watching them when I need some metal detecting content 😄

I personally have never detected a spot where there was fighting. Only surrender areas. Battlefields are highly illegal here most of the time and you can get in trouble. Plus shrapnel is annoying. You just gotta test new spots here and there and see if there are traces of the timeframe. Persistence is key!

@@MetalMaxWW2 Ah I had no idea it was illegal to detect on battlefields in Germany, but I guess it makes sense. I found 3 live sprenggranades, 1 mortar and 1 soviet F1 grenade just in the past month lol. I would love to detect surrender areas but almost all of them are in the western side of the country, since the Germans absolutely didn't want to be captured by the Soviets and most are like a 4 hour drive so battlefields are the only realistic option for me. But I guess could make it a small weekend trip and go search alongside one of the surrender roads 😀

Haha sure, give it a shot ^^ Or some random woods close to you, you never know!

Did my best to fight through them, thanks ^^

You need ANTIBRUMM FORTE!!!! The best for Mosquitos!

Sure was! Always an amazing feeling being the first one to take a special relic out of the ground... Thanks, but it wasnt always like that ^^ But some years of detecting makes you familiar with most things :)

@@MetalMaxWW2I began swinging a machine in 1998 and though have spent thousands of hours digging in the dirt unearthing innumerable metal targets of treasure and junk alike here in the Southern US, at no point have I had opportunity to hunt virgin ground so abundant with military relics. You my young friend are living the dream, make no mistake about that! 👏👌I appreciate the vicarious rush experience because even that was intense. Our paths have crossed, yeah I know it's just on this digital social media platform, but nonetheless, I want to share with you a little bit of my history for an unusually relevant perspective and possibly some info of interest. You'll understand I am sure. Twenty years or so ago I spent a year working for the Museum of East Alabama in Opelika, Alabama. My zest for metal detecting inspired the Curator to create a "Research and Recovery Team" that he so graciously appointed me to oversee. I can't remember ever being told no by anyone locally upon permission requests to detect. Alongside my two other team members, we successfully located and recovered many locally significant relics, lending a tactile enrichment to the community historical records and having a blast in the process. Now let's step even further back in time, locally to the 1940's. During WWII, a large POW camp compound was erected not too far outside the Opelika city limits. I learned much about the imprisoned German military men of that time through the Museum held writings of the prisoners themselves and the US military men stationed as guards of the prisoners. The Museum also housed an impressive collection of complete German military uniforms, weapons, and a wide assortment of accoutrements including a humongous 50 foot wide hand sewn together out of bed sheets by many German women 'banner' swastika flag that was so big it had to draped over the side of a large building. German soldiers transported it in advance to pre designated locations of display just prior to the Fuhrer's parade style celebrated arrival for morale and photography staging purposes and it was taken down before he left and on to the next and on and on so this banner flag was moved. I saw this flag, my hands touched the flag, but I never saw it completely unfurled, just color pictures taken of it on full display in many Germany towns/cities by German military photographers. The Museum held so many German WWII items that only a third or so were displayed at a time with the entire display rotating to another set every 4 to 6 months (which was quite an undertaking as I learned firsthand twice). During the time I was with the Museum, I scoured the internet for items being sold that were made by the German military prisoners while in the camp. The handcrafted items were usually a wooden bowl or wooden cup or something another and OPELIKA POW CAMP would be burned into or painted on the item. The internet was still a new thing, it really was, back when Alta Vista was the best internet search engine. I was a computer hardware engineer with established yahoo and ebay accounts as well so one of my many responsibilities was to locate anything historical Opelika for sale and the Curator would determine yea or nay on purchase specifics. The Museum's collection of POW crafted items more than doubled during my time there. I do apologize for such a long comment that goes on and on. Humor me but one deep dive and of this I'll speak no more. I read much that was available concerning the day to day living conditions of those soldiers and officers during their confinement here in the US as prisoners of war. There was not a uniformity of accommodations or prescribed procedural mannerisms. It was war. What I can say with 99.999% certainty is that those German sons and fathers, brothers and friends fighting for the Fatherland were, as happens in war, defeated, transported to the US, and for the duration of the war imprisoned in the Opelika, Alabama POW Camp where they were treated humanely and with civility the entirety of their stay and the proof of such a bold proclamation will become damn near undeniable by the time this comment of mine does actually end. Why in the world would a country as well water small east central alabama town of many residents being just farmers, whose growth was in no small part thanks to the cotton mills industry and during that time be just a blip on the map receive a POW camp compound? There were too many farms that weren't being tended to properly because the man of the household had gone off to war and was overseas somewhere fighting the Germans. Irony! Irony that these German POWs would be daily transported by wagon to help work the fields, harvest crops, slaughter pigs, milk cows, mend fences and countless other farming tasks a normal day in the life consisted of back then. It's my understanding that the Germans were overwhelmingly appreciated, were fed all the home cooked food they could eat, cold water was made available to them at all times and in copious quantities, and were given cash money regularly (that was overlooked by their transporting guards) and were allowed to spend that money in town for food/toiletries/clothes/whatever at regular intervals. In turn because the Germans felt so appreciated and needed, they never complained of their predicament, they worked their asses off helping these primarily women farmers stave off loss, foreclosure, structure deterioration and outright utter ruination from any number of reasons. A 360 win situation arose out of such dire circumstances for all involved parties. Amazing stories of compassion and dignity were told of those times! I listened to recordings of recollections told with respect and admiration by the local resident men and women who were there and lived through it day to day, interacting with the Germans, thankful to tears for the resiliency and resolve of these men who's speech they only partially understood could rise above it all and be the man who saved the day for many folks in Opelika and the tiny satellite communities around the area. I often wondered why a studio movie was never made in commemoration. The day did eventually arrive when the hostilities were done, the war was over, and the US returned those men held within those POW work compounds to their native homelands. An engineer and guard at the Opelika camp named John Herbert Orr was taken aback with surprise when the very last night before the scheduled departure of the Camp and return home to native Germany a couple of engineering officers under his responsibility wished to express their appreciation of the entirety of their stay that he took very good care of them and so spoke with him throughout the night divulging very detailed specifics of magnetic tape recording, a technology known in Germany for many years but to no one else in the world. They knew the specifics because they were the lead engineers of this technology. They knew that Germany would take years to rebuild to the advanced state necessary to continue on with it and rather than see it forever flounder, he could begin a successful and prosperous life and insure their life's work live on. Shortly after, the camp was closed and Mr. Orr purchased some of the empty buildings within the now defunct POW compound where though it took a few years, he did capitalize on the info shared with him which were the very beginnings of magnetic audio tape that became a media recording standard around the entire world in years to come. My best to you in all you endeavor!

@@eddienichols209 absolutely fascinating! Thank you for taking the time to tell this story here! I'm so glad, that for whatever reason... and half through the night, I thought I'd check out the comments to this video, and ran into your sharing. Wish you both the best!

@@MetalMaxWW2 how do you know where you have to dig?

@@Sherspirit Your comment is very much appreciated.👍

My pleasure :)

I have found K98 Bayonet blades or just regular bayonet blades that looked exactly like that when the grip was missing... that's why I thought it was

Looks like a file to me.and since it was on top, it is probably way newer than the 40s.

For sure!

Thanks a lot!

Haha certainly :) Smol Reichsmark hoard, there where even more!

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Thanks for watching and commenting!

Oh ja, die nächsten Tage waren absolut unerträglich ._.

@@MetalMaxWW2 das war es wert👍

thak you can i metal detect with you one day 🥹

Thanks :)

Thanks a lot!

Thank you so much for the kind words, motivates me to make more :) Cheers from Germany

Well you did comment now, thanks for watching!

Haha yeah they're tough to find, but some of the most beautiful coins :) Big fat Paul

Thanks, that means a lot :)

Yeah haha probably the best day ever, unprecedented!

Not a bad idea! I do have a digging knife with a saw-blade which I usually use for those occasions, but I forget it everytime Haha Thanks for watching

@@MetalMaxWW2 I have a ratcheting clipper I use. It will go through a 3/4 in (US) branch in a few clicks.

Thanks Ross :)

@@MetalMaxWW2 👍🏻

But there are surely also some German ww2 locations in Denmark ^^ Thanks for watching!

@@MetalMaxWW2 There probably are, but as far as I know, we're required to turn things in to a museum if we find stuff like that sadly