Yep, Vienna was a key city in secret nuclear and airspace research, Prof. Hans Thirring (betatrones and isotope separation ) / and Prof. Georg-Karl-Friedrich Stetter did a lot of transuranic reserach there and later even in Ohrdruf. Professor Friedrich Lachner was assistant for twenty years to Professor Heinrich Mache at the Department for Technical Physics at the Technical University of Vienna. Both were also heavily involved in the nuclear weapon research.
Wow, Tino, thanks for another great episode. Your channel is far better than anything on the “historical” channels on TV. I agree with your earlier post about how historical channels on TV are misrepresenting history for their own ratings game. Thank you for all of the wonderful content.
Thank you very much for this informative and interesting video. For me as citizen of Vienna and being interested in history it's very nice to see what's going on under the city, there must be alot of places where not allowed or able to go. I am looking forward to see further videos.
I seriously cant believe that anyone has dug that pile yet!! incredible!! like you said Tino, bit of you say no, leave it, the other part says I wonder whats under there!!
Thanks Tino for going under the City of Vienna, nobody can do it better than you. We have to understand that many people suffered during WW II and I supposed that's why their attitude toward sweeping many things under the carpet.
Tino, i am Magne Sium, Svein Inge is my real name, i heard on the news a few years back that when they were buliding the new heavy water museum in Rukan, they discovered documents that says there was a lot more heavy water produced and sent to Germany than previously thought, i cant find any info on it on the net, but i am 100% certain that i heard it on the news, bc the heavy water story is a quite big ting here in Norway
Wasn't there an old Orson Wells movie from right after WWII in which a big portion was filmed in the Vienna underground. In some storm sewers also. It was titled "The Third Man".
Ooohhh Tino I would Happily live there too! ..Theres a Cult of Silence over there still! Excellent video..Austria was the first Victim and the Last Bastion of it all
Great video Tino! You haven't made any bad ones yet!? Bravo! Still want to go to Denmark to that pastry shop for the big whip cream treats! Pastry to die for!!! I couldn't control myself and would gain weight quickly but smiling as I ate non stop. Thanks Tino, always dynamite on video platz!
Thanks for crawling around in the catacombs of Vienna for us. I wonder if some of the secrecy is leftovers from when it was the Holy Roman Empire, because the iteration of it afterwards was the Austro-Hungary Empire.
Apparently do they have had no problems destroying very old buildings castles seats of government in order to build something new on top without even bothering to document the old ones there does not seem to be a great interest in history here at all WWII they don't want to talk about everything else just doesn't seem to matter to some it's very sad and very strange actually
Great finds in the basement. :) There were remains of an M95 Mannlicher ammo pouch as well, they are laying around the kar98 ammo pouch parts. So maybe there were some policemen (or SS?) down there too. The "harness" is not combat Y straps, but the leather parts of an M34 Tornister with the carrying straps. The pile of clothes reminds me of a sentry overcoat (Wachtmantel maybe?) with the blanket material inside, but not really sure about it. Great channel, I am a fan of you for a while. :)
Another fascinating insight, I know you, refreshingly, don’t comment on the politics, but Austrian recent history is nothing but politics 😁. Good luck in getting access to other sites and thanks for bringing this to light. It’s amazing how much WW2 history remains shrouded in secrecy, even here in the UK, or should that be particularly here in the UK?
Not just the UK. It's true in the United States as well. Declassified documents show that the Americans got "rocket propelled atomic bombs." There was no significant rocket development in the U.S. during the war. Mr. Fiebinger ended up being sent to the U.S. to build underground launch pads for nuclear missiles for the Army Corps of Engineers. He worked for a contractor connected to them right after the war. To be clear, ICBM missile silos had been designed during the war for SS General Hans Kammler, who survived the war in American custody.
Great exploration .You should have brought those German gas masks and ammo pouches for the -Lost Battlefield museum-. who knows what's still under the rubble / sand in that hallway!
Rolf Widerøe one of the brothers of the Norwegian airline company was in Germany during ww2 and he was working on: Rolf Widerøe was a Norwegian accelerator physicist who was the originator of many particle acceleration concepts, including the resonance accelerator and the betatron accelerator.Wikipedia Born: July 11, 1902, Oslo/Kristiania, Norway Died: October 11, 1996, Obersiggenthal, Switzerland Nationality: Norwegian Fields: Physics (Accelerator physics) Institutions: Brown, Boveri & Cie, ETH Zürich Alma mater: RWTH Aachen University Doctoral students: Walter Mauderli Known for: linac, betatron, particle therapy
Also may have been low-tech research. I saw a RU-vid documentatary on the meticulously designed "Jerry Can" for gasoline. A metal jug made by Budd company with recessed seams, thermal expansion capability and lid/spout that did not require tools or a funnel. It had three handles on top.
Those big grey pipes towards the end of the video look decidedly modern. There would have been quite a team of workers down there to install and test them. Nor "heavy" enough for sewer pipes, . Chilled and / or hot water and return for air-conditioning? I would guess that anything of "interest" that was in situ before the pipe-laying disappeared with the installation or survey crew. How old is that brickwork? The bricks look to be from different "eras" in places, especially where there are doorways obviously bricked up. Interesting little tour!
Commentary on the 'time capsule' - the rubble/ sand of the time capsule is the same as that seen around 50 minutes in, in the video. But here, we're on a second level within the basement, and as odd and unexplainable to me, the second floor area is piled up in the upper chamber but away from the walls. That's odd. But you can't have 'bomb' damage rubble like this on two different levels, and with a gap between it and the walls. To me this suggest the construction of the above ground level used this space to dump their construction waste in and around these tunnels. That doesn't mean there isn't stuff under the piles, just that I'd doubt there is anything of interest in those piles - such as undiscovered bodies.
I would tend to agree with you, unless we were talking about an unexplored drop bomb punching through the floors not exploding and the damage repaired above only, and also the sand must have come from somewhere since we have 2 sub-floors and a building above i don't see where excactly
Where did the exit way marked B go ? I also noticed at the end of the bunker there was an arch that was bricked up and covered in white paint,like the rest of the bunker. Does this mean it went further and there is something behind it that was meant to be hidden ?. was it put there during construction for further expansion ?
I loved Vienna when I was last there. And the place is crawling with intelligence personnel. It took less time to drink a cold beer than to bump into the first American CIA operative, who was so blatant about what he did, he then told me something that if I walked to the nearest police station he would still be in prison. It's just as blatant in London, and the Canary Islands if you walk into certain hotels & bars. Just as well I'm from a friendly nation, but there's been many an occasion where I considered walking into the American Embassy and ending this man's career.
The human race can survive a lot. Individuals, though...life expectancy in the USA around 1900 was around 48 years old. That's why we make more laws about what things we will let people be exposed to in a general way. It's kind of odd that this needs to be explained.
Yes, it looks exactly like a piece of the base of a large caliber artillery shell. I have seen a lot of similar pieces in videos from different WW2 battlefields. Halbe, Seelow heights, Küstrin and others.
@@tinostruckmann i guess it couldve been whoever put those pipes in idea of a joke at the time to make it look like there's a body down there 🥴🤔 surely if a fair few others have been in there before you they'd have told the relevant authorities and done the right and respectful thing if it was genuinely a body.
Actually, the underground war production sites around Vienna are well documented. Why should anyone care about some abandoned bomb shelters. There is nothing there. I crawled into a bunker as a child, and only came across a first aid kit. From the brick walls, one can tell, the houses were constructed during the Empire. In any case, Vienna was not as important for war production when compared to Wiener Neustadt or Linz.
