{"id":54219,"date":"2023-12-13T23:19:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T22:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54219"},"modified":"2024-12-13T00:12:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T23:12:24","slug":"the-discovery-of-a-bunker-in-which-there-are-hundreds-of-world-war-ii-gas-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/13\/the-discovery-of-a-bunker-in-which-there-are-hundreds-of-world-war-ii-gas-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"The discovery of a bunker in which there are hundreds of World War II gas masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the World War II, many military fortifications were abandoned in several European countries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/25\/an-old-gun-that-still-works-and-is-abandoned-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-in-sweden\/\">An old gun that still works and is abandoned in the middle of nowhere in Sweden<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/28\/varnes-fort-world-war-ii-german-cannons-hidden-in-a-cliff-in-norway\/\">Varnes Fort, World War II German cannons hidden in a cliff in Norway<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Many of those fortifications were built during that war, but there were also some older ones. <strong>A part of these facilities continued in the hands of different armies<\/strong>, falling into disuse during the Cold War or after its end in 1991. For urban explorers specialized in facilities, <strong>find a bunker that still retaining original material is like finding the Holy Grail<\/strong>, since the vast majority of these bunkers were emptied before being abandoned, or have been vandalized and looted afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>This Wednesday, the German YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SchlachtfeldBegehung\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Randomlife.official<\/a> has published <strong>a Very interesting video about an abandoned bunker that is on an island<\/strong>. The video does not indicate where this facility is located, not even the country, but <strong>inside they have found hundreds of gas masks in their protective cases<\/strong> (the video is in German and does not have automatic subtitles):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Auf einer Insel finden wir einen mysteri\u00f6sen Eingang in einen verlassenen Bunker.\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rsvmc3H7eVs?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>Let's see below some screenshots from the video, which offer us clues about this bunker. <strong>Here we see the entrance to this fortification<\/strong>, a well-hidden entrance that does not give an idea of its great size.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53396052911_c4b45523da_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are several rooms in the bunker full of gas masks<\/strong> in their original cases. Many are already rusty due to humidity and the passage of time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53396365544_1656d36311_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another stack of gas masks.<\/strong> These masks are inside metal cylinders, accompanied by their filters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53395124307_7431b7c63e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we see <strong>the opening of two of the cylinders<\/strong>, which are almost like new.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53395124317_0db4981804_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The instructions preserved with the masks<\/strong> 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 <strong>they are L.702 gas masks manufactured by the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Belge de l'Azote et des Produits Chimiques du Marly<\/strong> (SBA, Belgian Company of Nitrogen and Chemical Products of Marly), of Li\u00e8ge .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53396365529_3da4c932a3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the website <a href=\"https:\/\/gasmaskandrespirator.fandom.com\/wiki\/L.702\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gas Mask and Respirator Wiki<\/a> they indicate that <strong>these masks were manufactured between 1938 and 1940<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castles.nl\/fort-walem\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There were thousands of these masks stored in Fort Walem, Belgium<\/a>, which had been abandoned there by the Belgian civil defense in 1992, but the masks stored in that fort were removed and destroyed. <strong>You have to keep in mind that the gas masks of that time had asbestos, a carcinogenic element<\/strong>, so be careful if you come across something like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the World War II, many military fortifications were abandoned in several European countries.<\/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":[16879,11549],"tags":[11449,18312,10389],"class_list":["post-54219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortifications","category-military-history","tag-belgium","tag-undisclosed-locations","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54219"}],"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=54219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}