WW2 German Underground Tunnels in Guernsey

This video shows the World War 2 German tunnels which can be found easily in Guernsey. They are as follows:

Talbot Valley,
Le Havelet - Val Des Terres,
St. Saviours,
German Underground Hospital,
Aquarium,
La Valette Museum.

Guernsey was the most fortified place in the whole of the Atlantik Wall. During World War 2 the Channel Islands were occupied for five years by Adolf Hitler's German Nazi forces.

In Guernsey there was 13,000 German troups at one point and thousands of Organisation Todt slave workers which mainly came from Poland. These slave workers were used to build hundreds of different German fortifications around Guernsey and had to live in terrible conditions and if they did not work they also did not get any food.

To build the tunnels they had to dig out thousands of tons of solid granite and many died in the process. It's rumoured that their bodies were just thrown into the setting concrete.

In 1944 twelve tunnels were under construction and two others were completed.

Guernsey was liberated on the 9th May 1945 and Liberation Day is celebrated every year on the 9th May. This video will be one of many uploaded during 2010 to celebrate 65 years of the Liberation Day.

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[elvisbluelight]

I think this is best preserved Nazi tunnel. Why wont you check out the tunnels underneath Peden Barracks, Wertheim?

[MrBooojangles]

@elvisbluelight I can't check them out because I don't live there.

[arado10]

Thanks for making this video Mr B. I got into St Saviour's Tunnel in 1974, before it was made into a museum. Still quite a bit of stuff lying around - bits of leather equipment etc, and still quite well preserved.

[MrBooojangles]

@arado10 Nice one. It looked to me through the gates in the valley end when I did this video that there was a load of gas mask containers, very rotted though.

[drudegsy]

Top stuff Mr B. Thanks for putting it up

[MrBooojangles]

Thanks for watching it, I have plenty more of these to come.

[domsworkCN]

you sound like salad fingers

[hussar01]

Excellent and very informative, I enjoyed this video and the narrative very much thank you

[oliviamulgrew]

thankyou this is fascinating

[toycityworld]

wow interesting video, I think the tone of your voice captivated me as well you sound like you enjoy this, I also enjoy understand about ww2 from a german perspective, Im not a nazi but as soon as you question why germany did what it did and why did the germans stab germany in the back towards the end of ww1 you are labeled as such.

One thing you got to remember about ww2.. There are always two sides to a story and the allies did as bad as they did , no bones about that... its true

[cherieleggett5]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING, BRINGS BACK MEMORIES WHEN I WAS A KID WE USED TO GO AROUND THOSE AREAS AND GOING THROUGH THE UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL WAS VERY UNSETTLING....

[DitchtheNuts]

A relative of mine lives on the island and was gardening, when digging, they fell down a very deep hole and it turned out to be this hospital, thats when it was opened to the public. They owned some of it for a spell and sent many items to the imperial war museum, including german rifles wrapped in wax paper, ammunition and so on . I was told somewhere in its vast tunnels, it links with the church tower as a lookout point. Clever seen as the germans knew the british would never bomb a church

[gromgardenlor]

very interesting.