{"id":50163,"date":"2023-01-23T23:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50163"},"modified":"2024-01-23T00:16:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:16:17","slug":"a-huge-world-war-ii-air-raid-shelter-that-still-preserves-many-vestiges-of-that-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/23\/a-huge-world-war-ii-air-raid-shelter-that-still-preserves-many-vestiges-of-that-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A huge World War II air raid shelter that still preserves many vestiges of that time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of World War II, Germany began directing air strikes against the civilian population of Poland, acting in a ruthless manner.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/19\/the-mru-a-mysterious-underground-city-of-nazi-germany-with-80-km-of-tunnels\/\">The MRU, a mysterious underground city of nazi Germany with 80 km of tunnels<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/20\/an-exploration-of-the-former-hidden-depots-for-raf-aircraft-in-gibraltar\/\">An exploration of the former hidden depots for RAF aircraft in Gibraltar<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Later, between 1940 and 1941, <strong>German bombers led a harsh campaign of attacks on the Dutch, French and British civilian populations<\/strong>. German attacks on the civilian population were also especially ruthless on the <strong>island of Malta<\/strong> throughout the war. This ended up leading the Allies to respond with the same coin, in such a way that <strong>the civilian population of both sides had to hide in anti-aircraft shelters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The German group of explorers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Simply_Adventure\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simply Adventure<\/a> <strong>has entered a huge refuge anti-aircraft with capacity for 3,000 people<\/strong>. The video does not indicate where the bunker is. Supposedly, it must be under some German city. Unlike other ruins from that time, <strong>this shelter has hardly any signs of vandalism, and many vestiges of the war can still be seen in it<\/strong> (the video is in German but it has subtitles in English, you can activate them in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\ud83d\ude31 Die Nazis versteckten Gold und historische Kulturg\u00fcter in diesem riesigen Bunker!\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mO3CqO-jfME?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><strong>You can see below some screenshots of the video<\/strong>. Some tunnels and rooms are dry, others are flooded, and this one has a ceiling covered in a black substance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52645575933_0746d4ebe5_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The shelter had large galleries <\/strong>. Looking at them you can imagine the scenes of panic that took place here during the air raids.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52645541125_40b5abe40b_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Among the objects seen in the shelter are <strong>shoes, pots and other utensils.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52645540955_1e68b23f39_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An old lamp<\/strong>, now completely rusty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52645541045_11e9b43bd6_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the remains there are also some newspapers<\/strong>, although from the typography they appear to date from World War II.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52645358554_c97b78bac1_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of World War II, Germany began directing air strikes against the civilian population of Poland, acting in a ruthless manner.<\/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":[19536,16880],"tags":[10929,18312],"class_list":["post-50163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-infrastructures","tag-germany","tag-undisclosed-locations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50163"}],"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=50163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}