SECRET ME262 Bunker Complex - Explored! 

The human story is overwhelming and shows the other side to the war. We will remember them.

Another great story. Your knowledge and storytelling are by far the best of WW2 on RU-vid. It is clear this complex wouldn't have been built without human sacrifice. Keep up the great work.

imagine the sheer output of the Jumo 004B engines, had this complex been completed.

I almost feel I was there! Great video and probably unique on youtube

Amazing site! The level of construction that went into these locations and all of the German WWII infrastructure including the construction of the Atlantic Wall Defenses is a lasting reminder, at least in my mind, that if Hitler had not invaded the Soviet Union or Africa and listened to some of his generals, we all could quite possibly be speaking German today and the world would look totally different. The Germans would have certainly conquered all of europe to include the UK and this would have left him with the resources to focus on fighting the Americans. This would have meant that the U.S. would have been forced to fight on two fronts with Japan and Germany and would have split those resources that were allowed to be pushed into europe to fight. The war would have certainly lasted longer then 1945 and would have given the Germans plenty of time to develop the Atomic and Hydrogen bomb which is a terrifying prospect to consider. Hitler would have certainly used the Atomic bomb and the other advanced weapons they were working on against the United States and, therefore, would have occupied most of the world. Russia without the U.S. and Great Britain would have signed a peace deal with Hitler and that would be it. According to many of the German scientists who were in Germany working on developing the atomic bomb for the Nazis, they were just 6 months away from full development of a working bomb in December of 1944. This is truly horrifying to think about and is all the more reason to thank our Grandfathers for sacrificing what they did to stop this war.

This was amazing! I couldn't believe the vastness of this place. Good video. I'm glad you spent some time at the memorial.

My father was in a sister camp of Kuno at Muhldorf. This factory near Dachau was much more extensive and was also building Me-262. My father is now 97 and in good health. Here is part of his story. : Another daybreak and the Nazis again asked for volunteers. Dad raised his hand and marched off with some others to the trains. That day he was taken to Muldorf and put to work building an underground airport. The Germans hoped to create a landing strip that could be naturally shielded in the thick forest it rested in. He was tasked with lugging giant boulders on his back to assigned locations. Why use Burros or wheel barrels when you have disposable Jews? One afternoon he was hauling another fifty-pound sack of sand onto the top of the bunker. He followed the instructions of a Nazi soldier leading the way, but as he climbed, Gabe noted that the soldier had taken a slight detour to give himself a smoke. As Dad reached the uppermost pinnacle, he saw a great vantage point from the edge of the stone building. It was at that moment he decided to share his good fortune. He approached the rim and spotted a chubby, obviously well-fed Nazi just below. Dad dug deep under his shirt, near his sweaty armpit, and collected as many Lice as he could; he took another look around, making sure he wasn’t spotted, then opened his hand and allowed the Lice to fall like tiny itchy snow flakes. He hoped they would land on target and infest the S.O.Bs below him. Aspirations for the completion of the airport were scrapped when the American and British fighting planes began constantly appearing in the sky. The Germans quickly decided they needed to eliminate all these possible witnesses. They couldn’t take their Jews back to Dachau as it had since been liberated, so they loaded them back onto the train and tried to head to a still large and dense forest that could accommodate the number of Jews they had to dispose of, but the tracks had been bombed. They didn’t know what to do with them, so they left them in those cars for three days. Some Nazis abandoned their posts, and everyone spilled out when the prisoners inside the car cracked the door open wide enough for a body to slide through. He moved to LA, and the rest is history. It is a good thing the Allies pushed the war faster. The Me-262 was a great aircraft and could have reversed the tide if enough had been produced. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pCxCflBOVcc.html

What a huge, incredible site. It’s almost impossible to imagine.

I‘m from Bavaria and been there a couple times already. It is now a memorial site that you can visit. Lots of small bunkers around the big structure. Great view from above the bunker btw😂 I just now realized that the 262 were launched from there..

I must admit your description on that episode sir, is quite something really in connections to what you say and mentioning of what the series, "hunting hitler" doesn't mention at all and If I'm honest you do a good/great job on that

NICELY DONE !!! The Respect you paid to those who died was wonderful and Necessary. I was just in Bavaria, I wish I knew about this site then…Thank you!

Nice Work!

another well researched presentation.thank you.the massive arch reminds me of La Coupole in Eperleque northern france. a 7meter thick dome for v2 rockets. i am sure this is on your to do list.

Beautifully made. And what a incredible story about the austrian man. Keep up the good work mate😉

It really brings it home as to what a liar Albert Speer was. Wonderful video.

Well that was a pretty good workout for you, sadly due to heath problems my rambling days are over, thank you for showing me something I will never be able to see up close and personal.

Amazing, thanks for making the video. I'd heard of Weingut but never seen it.

Just a small point/query - the stuff I have read suggests that the tunnel railway was used to REMOVE material rather than import it. Basically removing the shale mound from inside the cast arch

Just found your channel, nice one, any model shows up Cheshire way this year?subbed 😉👌

Excellent commentary, thank you. Really enjoyed this.

I understood tunnels were used to take gravel out finished arch as gravel used to support concrete while it set , as a form

I wonder if all this will still be remembered in a thousand years from now? I hope so and lets hope those you come after us aren't so silly to let it happen again. No guarantees there though.

Fantastic video

Wow, very well done and risky too. Your work to document and explain these sites is wonderful Sir. May God Bless you always, QED

Thanks!

Immense, great video. Have you ever been to the Valentin submarine bunker near Bremen? Absolutely huge, very sad story about the forced labour workers who died there and also the sinking of a ship that thousands were evacuated to

Must have been a hive of activity when all this was being constructed. Must have been easily visible from aircraft.

great video. the purpose of blowing these places after the war was a complete waste of time and money

Im sure there is a simple answer but how do you know what the purpose of the bunker was? From finding plans/documents? from things that were found at the site? Witness account?

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Absolutely huge place and great report. Amazing what can be achieved with slave labour, which is terrible.

Just an absolute waste of human life, nothing was really accomplished. The one thing that I have noticed is that Albert Speer and Germany went through massive amounts of concrete and rebar during the Third Reich, only to have most of those projects destroyed. Good episode.

It is interesting how Franz Xaver Dorsch, an old Nazi friend of Hitler and the engineer and designer of this bunker complex, went on to found the Dorsch Gruppe, now employing 1,600 people and Germany's largest independent planning and consulting company. Dorsch avoided prosecution following the war and was commissioned by the United States Army to write a 1,000-page study of the Organisation Todt, at which he was the chief engineer, and which was published in 1947. This organisation was responsible for a huge range of engineering projects both in Nazi Germany and in occupied territories from France to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and was notorious for using forced labour. From 1943 until 1945 during the late phase of the Third Reich, OT administered all constructions of concentration camps to supply forced labour to industry. Dorsch died in Munich on 8 November 1986.

Those footprints in the concrete are chilling given that they are likely from slave laborers. I thought "ground" was an American saying................ and "floor" was typical for the European side of the pond.

Very sad that so many people suffered due to the Nazi crazy and horrific ideals.

What an engineering achievement, makes no since to have destroyed it. It changed nothing except making a big mess. Nothing has been done with the land or probably ever will. If left in tact it would have been a great attraction for those studying engineering. Total waste!