{"id":48547,"date":"2022-09-11T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48547"},"modified":"2022-09-12T22:39:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T20:39:34","slug":"the-interior-of-some-tunnels-used-by-the-third-reich-as-an-ammunition-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/11\/the-interior-of-some-tunnels-used-by-the-third-reich-as-an-ammunition-depot\/","title":{"rendered":"The interior of some tunnels used by the Third Reich as an ammunition depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the time that has passed since World War II, there are still places related to that historical episode that seem unexplored.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/09\/the-interior-of-two-well-preserved-third-reich-batteries-on-a-british-island\/\">The interior of two well-preserved Third Reich batteries on a British island<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/06\/maisy-the-german-normandy-battery-that-was-mysteriously-buried-by-the-us\/\">Maisy: the German Normandy battery that was mysteriously buried by the US<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>That seems to be the case for a network of tunnels found by a German urban explorer and shown in a video posted this afternoon on his channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/WW2HistoryHunter\" rel =\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WW2HistoryHunter<\/a>. <strong>These tunnels were used as an ammunition depot for an artillery battery that had three 210 mm cannons.<\/strong> I cannot give more information, since the author of the video reveals absolutely nothing about the location of this ancient German military position:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ammo tunnels found. German 21 cm guns were here !\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uIF8wSodrE4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots of the video here. In this first image we see <strong>the exterior of the bunker, in whose construction railway tracks were used.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52351113448_b099479b0c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The entrance to the tunnels<\/strong>. It gives the impression that they took advantage of a natural cave.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52350869681_f3ac69d5e5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The interior of the tunnels.<\/strong> If it was not a natural cave, the excavation was certainly crude and improvised (bear in mind that many of these works were done using slave labor brought from countries occupied by Germany).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52351113443_38e8289e52_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The interior of the cave is flooded.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52351292100_c6aa1cb23a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remnants of what appear to be ammunition casings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52351292130_1af6b2bc6b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another casing for ammunition outside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52351113468_5dcc9838cc_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the time that has passed since World War II, there are still places related to that historical episode that seem unexplored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16879],"tags":[10929,11950,10389],"class_list":["post-48547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-fortifications","tag-germany","tag-third-reich","tag-world-war-ii"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 09:50:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}