The discovery of a bunker in which there are hundreds of World War II gas masks

After the World War II, many military fortifications were abandoned in several European countries.

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Many of those fortifications were built during that war, but there were also some older ones. A part of these facilities continued in the hands of different armies, falling into disuse during the Cold War or after its end in 1991. For urban explorers specialized in facilities, find a bunker that still retaining original material is like finding the Holy Grail, since the vast majority of these bunkers were emptied before being abandoned, or have been vandalized and looted afterwards.

This Wednesday, the German YouTube channel Randomlife.official has published a Very interesting video about an abandoned bunker that is on an island. The video does not indicate where this facility is located, not even the country, but inside they have found hundreds of gas masks in their protective cases (the video is in German and does not have automatic subtitles):

Let's see below some screenshots from the video, which offer us clues about this bunker. Here we see the entrance to this fortification, a well-hidden entrance that does not give an idea of its great size.

There are several rooms in the bunker full of gas masks in their original cases. Many are already rusty due to humidity and the passage of time.

Another stack of gas masks. These masks are inside metal cylinders, accompanied by their filters.

Here we see the opening of two of the cylinders, which are almost like new.

The instructions preserved with the masks give us a clue to their origin: they are in French and Dutch (that is, they must be Belgian masks). We also see in the instructions that they are L.702 gas masks manufactured by the Société Belge de l'Azote et des Produits Chimiques du Marly (SBA, Belgian Company of Nitrogen and Chemical Products of Marly), of Liège .

On the website Gas Mask and Respirator Wiki they indicate that these masks were manufactured between 1938 and 1940, that is, in the moments before and at the beginning of the Second World War, and were exported to France, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and China.

There were thousands of these masks stored in Fort Walem, Belgium, which had been abandoned there by the Belgian civil defense in 1992, but the masks stored in that fort were removed and destroyed. You have to keep in mind that the gas masks of that time had asbestos, a carcinogenic element, so be careful if you come across something like that.