WW2 German Bunker at L'Erée, Guernsey

This video shows inside and outside of a World War 2 German bunker which is under a car park above L'Eree Bay, Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

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. They bought in thousands of Organisation Todt slave workers which were forced to build this and hundreds of other fortifications around Guernsey and live in terrible conditions.

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.

This was filmed using my old 8mm format video camera, a Sony TR640E which has a night vision feature. This was required because it is totally dark inside this German bunker.

GERMAN WRITING TRANSLATION

Bei Kunstl Beluftung Hebel nach oben - Handle up while using artificial air ventilation

Beluftung - Ventilation

Bei Gasgefahr alle Schieber schlieben und rote Knopfe andrehen - Close all slides and operate handle during gas attack

Kein Licht bei offener Tur - Lights out when doors are open

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[TheDoran24]

this is a great video, such detail in the bunker. i love your videos! when will your next one be coming out?

[MrBooojangles]

@TheDoran24 Probably a few weeks time. It is a very complicated and long video and is taking me a long time to do, probably my most complicated one yet, lucky they are not all this complicated. You will see why when the videos uploaded.

[zabercrombie24]

I've herd of rumors of German bunkers that are still untouched and have rows and rows of mint vehicles, tanks along with unopen crates of weapons, clothes, and gear. I don't know the truth in this. I read it on some WWII blog. Wish i could remember the site cause it's pretty interesting stuff. Can anyone confirm this? I'd like to read more about it.

[MrBooojangles]

@zabercrombie24 Don't know about tanks as I don't think they used them here but there is the Rouge Rue tunnel which is a large complex and has a lot of trailed equipment like field kitchens still inside. The tunnel under St. Saviours church was also used for keeping vehicles but these got cleared out after the war.

[hennerz567]

Crawling to get in the bunker, good effort

[Chrome57flytha2nd]

Hurry seal that thing off before any zombies get out

[TheDoran24]

@MrBooojangles sounds great! could you give any hints to what it is about? like is it a second episode of sweeney cops? or will it be about a historical area of guernsey? I live in the north, be great to see some videos down there!

[MrBooojangles]

@DavBlc7 Yes that as well. I do know this as I do live here, LOL :D

[DavBlc7]

@MrBooojangles Note that the Channel Islands are not part of the United Kingdom, rather a self-governing British crown dependencies with their own parliament and laws, plus the own currency. Isle of Man is the other.

[MrBooojangles]

@Stealthkeys77 Yes, I don't think it will get vandalised too easily. Just have to correct you on one thing though, the bunker is in Guernsey in the Channel Islands not the coast of England, although we are part of the British commonwealth. Were the only British territory that was occupied by the Germans :-)