Le Grand Bunker, Ouistreham, Normandy

[iTZzArJuN]

they built houses over the ground of which many men died?

[Jejh4lom]

@Housemill100 hell yeah

[Housemill100]

2:59...that's some heavy fucking defences. A miracle the allies made it through...

[Freedom3777]

The Germans fought in the same way against the same enemy the Indians did, and for their ethnic home lands i might add. Doing the same things to the invaders of their ethnic home lands that the Indians did to the invaders of their ethnic home lands.

Take it as you wish.

IHR at the dotorg

[jcbspence]

@Freedom3777 hmmm but i dont think we put indians in gas chambers

[internetzwemmer]

is that a priest tank 1:03 1:11

[VideoHistoryToday]

@MrDauntess Its really just a museum now so either the owners just wanted to bring in some different exhibits (there's a V1 rocket outside the entrance!) or as I think another person has commented, it just found its way to the bunker in 1944 as a captured Eastern Front weapon...maybe even a sovenir. Don't know for sure though.

[bloco581]

ppsh is a russian gun developed before any german weapon

[anneloev]

@bloco581 ppsh is developed after finnish suomi, which is loosely based on german mp 18.

[bloco581]

@anneloev crap i forgot about the mp18

[anneloev]

@bloco581 and the german weapon Bergman MP 18, made by Louis and Hugo Schmeisser, was inspired by an italian before that during wwI. Its hard to say who comes first, but its easy to see which ones got most success. In my opinion the Finnish "suomi" is the ground standard for the development of the russian Ppsh.

[lezbian90]

didn't the russian stole the PPSH design from german guns?

[LetsPlayMaster112]

PPSH is a Russia gun!

the german steal from the dead

soldier the weapon!

[sniegaviirs24]

wtf ?ppsh is a russian gun 1

[hutley405]

i went their with raf cadets 3 years ago now and i thought it was really good, and theres a go kart place near it where i had my first crash with a sand bunker XD

[Sodiumreactor]

how in the hell did we ever make it up those beaches??

[dpsherry]

@Sodiumreactor 'cos the lads were F'ing brave. And after holding off the Germans since 1939 they wanted it to be over. If we today were to live for a thousand years we wouldn't even have begun to repay the debt we owe those lads.

[Sodiumreactor]

@dpsherry Agree

[EnigmaNZ1]

Shit I would hate to have to brave those beach defences.

[Fridomfry]

Remember that the Germans created "Russian" units with thousands of Soviet prisoners. These poor folks had been betrayed by Stalin, and once in the hands of the nazis had only two options: Starving, or fighting with Germany. There was a division of them in Britanny, and perhaps also units in Normandy.

[Ginandor]

Those who survived were sent back to Russia and died in labour camps or were executed as traitors.

[bunchalinks]

well if they were with germany, why would they have ppsh-41's? it's confusing..

[dpsherry]

osiris@bunchalinks easier to re-use the thousands of russki weapons captured on the eastern front wouldn't you think?

[anneloev]

@Fridomfry There were many of them in Normandy since the directoral order of deploying "turned" soviet soldiers into battle areas not risking them to battle against their own kin. That overall strategy cost the nazis a lot, since several units didn´t have the same motivation to fight against the allied as the native german soldiers. Many heroic actions were made by german soldiers during the D-Day, but alot of them were made by non-germans. Since they were placed by directionals by war.

[Freedom3777]

@Fridomfry Interesting, Russians were conquerd by the Red Beast. They never stoped fighting, the Black Hindreds and the White Russians, once the Germans came to their aid they were so happy. Many of their familys had been murderd by the red beast for opposing the Red dictatorship.

45-million Russians to be exact murderd by the Red Beast before the 2-WW even started.

IHR at the dotorg

[partsproduction]

@Freedom3777 You are right of course. One of my employees here in the west coast USA is 35 years old, he had never heard of karl marx. What kind of school system puts out graduates that don't know what communism is? The same one that supports barack hussein obama, our great socialist messiah. (puke!) Our world is finished unless we demand that the truth be told!

[wo2collector]

wth there are grenades for pikking

[ashec]

PPSH i swear not a german gun?

[VideoHistoryToday]

Well spotted. I didn't notice that. I think its Russian.

Although not really clear from this video the Bunker was not a pure D-Day/Normandy Museum (there's a V1 pulse-jet rocket in the grounds).

The landing craft is a replica made for (and featured in) Spielburg's 'Saving Private Ryan film.

[ashec]

Thanks You hehe :P and i looked and it is Russian

[BRAV0TWOZER0]

@VideoHistoryToday how can you think its russian? after 70 years i thought you would know by now it is russian

[torcidaSTobrec]

@VideoHistoryToday its only used by the germans

[paratroop24]

@VideoHistoryToday Well, during ww2 the germans actualy converted many ppsh 41s to 9mm and even manufactured their own varient. Also, there was a famous occurance on D-Day+1 where a soldier form 101st airborne got ahold of one and used it until it ran out of ammunition sometime later that day.

[BarkeeperLF]

I think the gun may have been there because the artillery guns on the Atlantic Wall were partially captured guns from the eastern front. I suppose some PPSH's might have come along.

[GreekParodios]

PPSH is rusian weapon, better soviet that because created and used by red army on ww2, it is an original russian gun

[o0canabis0o]

@ashec ppsh is a russian weapon ........... german weapon are stg44 .... mg42 k98 mp40 and soo on ...

[ashec]

@o0canabis0o  i know i know ^^

[gitaartje71]

@ashec ppsh is a russian machine gun, the mp-40 is german

[ZerokillerOppel1]

@gitaartje71 This is not strange. The Germans used thousands and thousands of captured guns so-called "Beutewaffen" . Most of the inferior and obsolete designs were issued to the Policesquads in remote areas but as for the PPSH; the Germans held it in high regard, even placing it above their own submachineguntypes .The ammo supply was no problem either for this gun. They had that in abundance.

[TheDeyan13]

@ashec thats right its russian :)

[mickelmus]

Good video.

This is actually one of the best preserved bunkers in the whole of normandy.

As I recall it this was a fire leading bunker for the artillery located a couple of miles south of Ouistreham...

[pro100ksu]

WOUH !!! awesome

[stuthedigger]

nicely done...

[digglyda]

This bunker came as a total shock to the Allies on d-day. Pre-invasion intelligence had entirely missed it's location and so no plans had been made for dealing with it on d-day.