Le Grand Bunker, Ouistreham, Normandy

Le Grand Bunker was the German command post for the Atlantic Wall defences at the port of Ouistreham, at the very eastern extreme of the D-Day beach landings on Sword Beach.

Today, the bunker has been converted into a museum (the Atlantic Wall Museum to be exact) featuring landing craft, a V1 rocket and tanks outside and multi-level displays of WWII guns, grenades and other equipment inside, as well as maintaining features of the defence bunker itself.

The video features some general views inside and outside the bunker and ends with a model showing a cross section of the German beach defenses at Normandy.

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[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.

[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.

[iTZzArJuN]

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

[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.

[TheDeyan13]

@ashec thats right its russian :)

[Jejh4lom]

@Housemill100 hell yeah

[Housemill100]

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

[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.

[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!

[jcbspence]

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

[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

[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