Opening a bunker for the first time in 73 years 

Newest video from our trip to the eastern front: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OVsGGpafV0I.html&t

Well done. Putting the condition of this in perspective, it was not so long ago that WWII occurred. And nearly all who lived through and survived are departed now.

2:39 that coke is in really good condition

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That’s very eerie. I love the history behind it. Thank you for sharing. Please, keep digging.

What a fantastic find lost for 73 years hope it is easy to open the next time

Thank you so much, everyone, for your hard work in opening this little piece of history. I hope you left a little Easter egg for whomever opens it up in the next 100 years. Thanks for the video. History from the ground up is the best kind.

Really enjoyable video, very interesting liked and subbed :). I wish you'd shown more of the 'mortar bunker' as I couldn't see any place or opening to fire the very high trajectory angles that mortars use.

I was an exchange student to Denmark in 1984. I lived near Egtved for the entire year. I went on holliday with my family to Skagen, we toured some of the coastal batteries. I also went to Fredrikhavn and saw one there. I thought it was pretty cool that we could do that.

Amazing to think of how many years and generations this thing has just laid untouched for , buried for all that time and forgotten about.

Strange how we try to put the war behind us, yet we dig up its remnants in order to find out more

Very cool. I imagine there’s a lot more bunkers and military installations like this just waiting to be discovered. Thanks for sharing.👍

An excellent documentation about an exhumation of a german bunker in Denmark - my compliments & thank You!

For clarity, I hope someday they take one of these small bunkers and completely excavate it, down to floor level - then you could get a true picture of inside and outside of it. It would certainly take some digging.

Fantastic work! I have a house in Birmingham, and when I bought it I was aware that there would have been an Andersen in the back garden, but had no idea if it was still there. After a lot of digging and scraping around I found it. Not in the best shape but still recognizable and fascinating. I checked in at the library to find diaries of the bombings, and from that could pinpoint the dates that the family living there at the time would have spent in the shelter.

Amazing how well it was made considering it was just meant to be a temporary structure. Most buildings today have inferior workmanship.

As a former broadcast engineer and editor, this video stands head and shoulders over most of the other footage on the internet. It is well crafted , tightly edited and follows a storyline that does not meander but stays focused on point. Others should study your style to improve their submissions. Congratulations on an outstanding product. I just subscribed and look forward to seeing your future work.

Wow. My father lived in Esbjerg through the end of the war. He didn’t speak about it very much but little he told us was fascinating. I would be interested in any sources for the history of Esbjerg. His description of the day that the end of the war was announced and the response of the Germans to the spontaneous street celebration (to fire upon people using an anti-aircraft gun) sticks in my memory. Mange tak før det!

Amazing to see the quality of construction even at that late stage of the war.

I find it a bit sad that such historically important items are buried and forgotten. When I was a kid there was a pill-box near a local river. At some point it got removed. Now, no one will know that years ago soldiers used to stand guard there, prepared to defend us.

Man I would love to be able to go around the world digging up artifacts that just drives me crazy so so lucky.

Thank you for all your hard work!!!!! Bring us the history of the past.

Some suggestions: Some background on the excavators (who they are, what sparked this little expedition, who funded it, etc.), how was the site found, who currently owns the land (was he aware of the bunkers existence, what were the terms for allowing the dig, was re-burying it a requirement, etc.), conduct an a/v with narration instead of stills with text, lose the melancholy music ... in fact ... don't use any music at all (I'd much rather hear the actual sounds of the dig, the narrator and the voices of the workers. I did like the few bits of military details that were included. More of that would be great. Again, just suggestions. The video was ok.

Hats off to the carpenters that built all the forms!

Very sensitive and respectful Danish style. Thank you for your important work, I remember these bunkers from when I spent holidays there over 30 years ago - caught my first sepsis while exploring 🤪

Thanks for sharing this footage. Very interesting.

Only just found your channel and this was the first video I watched. Such an absolutely beautiful thing to see a bunker opened for the first time in such a long time! The stories these buildings would tell if they could... ❤

I live on Jersey in the channel Islands and me and my mates found a few bunkers in our local area as kids (in the 90s) and they clearly hadn't seen the light of day in decades, not sure if we discovered them but I wouldn't be surprised. One of them was pretty big too, about the size of a large garage .

How is it that this is burried and forgotten? How is it that it is now covered over again? That's a great bunker, make a great root celler.

Great vid. Many of the post-war bunkers were surely scavenged for treasures before covering them with dirt. But it's a great thing to rediscover historic sites like this

Very nice work, this 621 has beautiful camouflage on the outside. Good thing he was found again.

Amazing the roof didn’t collapse. Tractors on farms aren’t light equipment but it’s not the weight of a tank. However the roof isn’t new anymore.

The fort Ive always wanted. Dry it out real good,new ventilation, new cement. Man cave

My father was in the western theater and When the war ended he was fighting in Belgium (the Bulge). He survived a land mine injury after it ended. He was hitching a ride in an ambulance. I was born in 1950 and so many men from every city were in combat. My father, like most, hated the Japanese because of their torture and cruelty. But, he, like most, had admiration for the German solders. I had a difficult time understanding that when I was ten years old. These men admired the German solders skills, bravery and how well they took orders. And their captives did not receive the torture or death of the Japanese. I know that my father was fighting for his life and took the lives of others. It bothered him to his grave. The German solders that occupied these bunkers were doing their job. Just like my father. Yes, this place and so many are hallowed grounds. Every bullet rips open the heart of a mother somewhere. If we could only learn from our history.

Why cover it again. If it was on my land l would see either a tourist opportunity, or a great cellar or room

Kool Most all bunkers that size were outfitted with electricity For lights and to power communications Most wood like floor boards and such are not found in bunkets because after the war had ended the people that lived around the bunkers took what was usable and used it Great find

Did you pump the water back? If not all wood will be rotten the next time it is opened. The water preserves the wood

THANK YOU for doing what you do! Absolutely paramount in preserving the history of WWII.

That seepage water is crystal clear! I don’t know why this surprised me, but it did ... I mean, it’s basically a shallow well after all ... but still .... very cool discovery; thanks for posting, and good hunting!

lots and lots of bunkers like this where i live, i doubt there are any more hidden ones now. many were left open, some sealed for safety. some are on private land, now they are storage areas on farms.... some are cafes, some are accommodation, and some are museums.

Excellent video thank you for sharing this.

Shame the bunker cannot remain open, restored to some degree or repurposed would make a great feature on this farm.

To get the sand and some other things out they should use a conveyor belt type of lift augers would wear the flutes too quickly and be more restrictive about what could be removed.

I know that crazy feeling of flying a drone. 80% drone filmed.

my brother and I dug into german bunker in west france in 1970 ish. the notice boards inside had lots of writing on them that wqe couldn't read. we got really scared as the sand started to fall back into the hole we dug- it was a wonderful moment. I was about 12 or 13 years old.

a table and a ventilation filter. what an amazing finds 👏👏❣️

I'm more amazed that the bunker is that shallow and that farmer has never discovered it until now.

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing! Thanks for all your hard work!

Holy Gerardo Rivera and the mystery of Al Capone's vault flashbacks Batman!

Great video and documentary. Yes, it's a once in a life time experience for you guys, enjoyed your experience through this documentary. Thanks.

A valiant effort for naught but architectural notes and a catchy RU-vid title in the end. Truth is that absolutely nothing was discovered that would identify the occupants or describe their wartime experience. No belongings, no writings on the walls. A lamp and a skunk - that sucks. Still I hope they aren't too discouraged. Because if I saw another title like this one, I'd definitely check it out. Thanks. It's better to remember that the joy is in the exploration (journey) as much as the discovery (destination)

Local civilians probably looted anything useful after the bunker fell into allied hands.

Legend says that once the the bunker was opened a ghostly voice soon echoed through its dark lonely halls "BRINGEN SIE MIR FEGELEIN .....FEGELEIN, FEGELEIN, FEGELEIN"

Fascinating to watch love watching these videos

Awesome explore

Nice

Fascinating

Never forget

2:41 I know the Nazi’s built a base on the dark side of the moon,- but I didnt know the Nazis drank Coca-cola...

When they escaped, they took everything. Darn. They were so thorough.

Fascinating, and great aerial shots! Many thanks!

Nice job guys!! Job well done!

WWII German engineering and structures sure was built to last

Out if this world love every thing bout ww2 no to much and love it god bless and keep theses films coming Mate

Well done. Love the drone views. Thank you.

I would have NEVER guessed that was an entrance to anything

Fascinating history.

Wow, thanks for posting! 🙏💪🇺🇸💪🙏

What a great toy size excavator

wow, an empty concrete box, cool.

Por incrível que pareça, ainda sabemos muito pouco sobre a IIWW. Com a abertura da União Soviética, muitos arquivos vieram à tona e agora sabemos, por exemplo , que Hitler atacou a Rússia porque sabia que seria atacado. Na esteira, novas descobertas virão. Congratulations for your job. Thanks

Absolutely fascinating and really well presented 👍

I was born right after the war and I remember many soldiers and civilians. Was was common talk. I have visited the bunkers of SFO USA. Quite an interesting experience.

Germans sure know how to build stuff

Thanks for sharing this event!

Great film well done good luck in future digs

Frederick Forsyth had a character in one of his novels. It was a Flemish farmer and one of his employees. The farmer was given the location of a large cache of Mp - 40 mg's by a former German officer at the end of WWII. He sold a # to the mercenaries in the novel who needed them. Frederick Forsyth was not an ordinary Joe, he was an MI6 officer who probably knew a great many things that came across his desk ordinary Joe's never get a faint clue about. One wonders.

Love the video y’all and great pictures. I just wanted to say if y’all could do a video of walking inside the bunker that would be awesome.

Spooky. Perfect music.

The Germans sure knew how to build things

How did you know the approximate area to search in? Nice video, but just a little bit too much useless drone perspective. It's a great feature in a video until it is over-used.

I couldn't understand why you made a video that contained mostly still photos of the bunker, while there was video only of the above ground area. Why wasn't video format used for entire production?

They should've drilled a hole through the roof of the main room and put a pipe through it to have a water reservoir for irrigation.

I envy you guys, and I will be anticipating the next one with baited breath.

Did they pile dirt over the field after the war? There’s windows for firing ports, they wouldn’t have been below ground level would they?

Interesting. I knew they had Führerbunkers, but that every soldier at every corner had his own bunker, I had no idea. Had they won the war we'd probably all be living underground by now :-) But jokes aside, one cannot fail to notice how well organized and advanced they were compared to the rest of the world from that era.

Interesting, but why is it covered with so much soil? Was it put there after the war?

Incrível,demorou 73 anos pra entrarem no bunker e só teve praticamente imagens do lado externo. Isso é brincadeira ? Pqp

As a Danish ww2 lover myself this is fucking awesome wish I could be there myself

Absolutely awesome history. Do you folks metal detect your areas?

This was very well done. What country was this bunker in?

Well done for a very interesting video. Is there a source of information for all German locations in Denmark during WW2? there are some odd structures around the Viborg area. Thanks again.

Two or three of the occupants have weekend leave, spend two days drinking beer and eating delicious sausage and sauerkraut at a local inn. They return Monday morning, content, with full bellies but somewhat gassy, the feldwebel in charge knows what happens next in that confined space so assigns most of the crew to the air pumps for the rest of the day.

Very good video. Thank god, that although they fought hard, they lost the war.

Very interesting. The still shots are great, but is there no video?

Very good job guys , very big 👍

This bunker was perfectly cleared by another person that found it ! They worked a lot for not so many things...I Hope that this team found something...

It most be moving to exerpience history in it's purest form.

Love history, and a little isolated from WWII history stateside, other than occasional rumors about Nazi gold being brought to Arizona...... And one of the local mines that was providing zinc to the Germans when the small town of Kingman went out and burned the mill to the ground mid 40s?

Can't imagine how Carter must have felt when opening Tutankhamen Tomb in Egypt.