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Three Nazi bunkers on a beach have been uncovered by violent storms off the Danish coast, providing a store of material for history buffs and military archaeologists.
The bunkers were found in practically the same condition as they were on the day the last Nazi soldiers left them, down to the tobacco in one trooper‘s pipe and a half-finished bottle of schnapps.
This bunker was entombed under the sand dunes until a violent storm swept away the sands three months ago
The bunkers had not been touched since the war
The bunkers were three of 7,000 built by the Germans as part of Hitler’s ‘Atlantic Wall‘ from Norway to the south of France.
But while the vast majority were almost immediately looted or destroyed, these three were entombed under the sand dunes of a remote beach near the town of Houvig since 1945.
They were uncovered only because recent storms sent giant waves cascading over them, sweeping away the sand and exposing glimpses of the cement and iron structures.
Kim Clausen, curator of the Ringkoebing-Skjern museum views a heater retrieved from the bunker
Stamps of the German Eagle of Adolf Hitler and the Swastika were also retrieved
They were located by two nine-year-old boys on holiday with their parents, who then informed the authorities.
Archaeologists were able to carefully force a way, and were astounded at what they found.
‘What’s so fantastic is that we found them completely furnished with beds, ‘chairs, tables, communication systems and the personal effects of the soldiers who lived inside,’ says Jens Andersen, the curator of the Hanstholm museum.
The discovery of the fully-furnished bunkers was “unique in Europe,” said Bent Anthonisen, a Danish expert on European bunkers.
Expert Tommy Cassoe: ‘It was as if the Nazis had just left yesterday’
And a third expert, Tommy Cassoe, enthused: “It was like entering the heart of a pyramid with mummies all around. Wat I saw blew me away: it was as if the German soldiers had left only yesterday.”
The team working with Cassoe emptied the structures within a few days of boots, undergarments, socks, military stripes, mustard and aquavit bottles, books, inkpots, stamps featuring Hitler, medicines, soda bottles, keys, hammers and other objects.
All of the objects from the shelters have been taken to the conservation centre at Oelgod museum, some 20 miles from the beach to be examined.
The centre’s German curator, Gert Nebrich, judged the find ‘very interesting because it is so rare.’
‘”We don’t expect contemporary objects like these to be so well preserved. Maybe it’s because they were kept for 60 years in the cold and dark like in a big vacuum,” he says, carefully showing four
stamps featuring Hitler’s image and the German eagle, found in one bunker.
The Germans left the bunkers in May 1945 after the Nazi surrender.
Historical records show that Gerhard Saalfed was a 17-year-old soldier with the German army when he arrived at the bunker in January 1945.
Germany surrendered on May 8 1945, but it wasn‘t until two days later that he and his fellow soldiers left their remote station.
They shut the steel doors of the bunker behind them on their remote beach and went to the nearest town ten miles away to surrender.
‘The remote location of the bunkers and the drifting sands that covered them saved them from being ransacked,“ said Cassoe.
Terjemahan:
Tiga
bunker Nazi di pantai telah ditemukan oleh badai kekerasan di lepas
pantai Denmark, menyediakan toko bahan bagi penggemar sejarah dan
arkeolog militer.Bunker
ditemukan di hampir kondisi yang sama seperti mereka pada hari itu
tentara Nazi terakhir meninggalkan mereka, sampai ke tembakau di pipa
satu polisi dan botol setengah jadi dari schnapps.Bunker ini dimakamkan di bawah bukit pasir sampai badai dahsyat menyapu pasir tiga bulan laluBunker belum tersentuh sejak perangBunker tiga dari 7.000 dibangun oleh Jerman sebagai bagian dari Hitler 'Tembok Atlantik' dari Norwegia di selatan Perancis.Tetapi
sementara sebagian besar hampir segera dijarah atau dihancurkan, ketiga
yang dimakamkan di bawah bukit pasir pantai terpencil dekat kota Houvig
sejak 1945.Mereka
menemukan hanya karena badai baru-baru ini mengirimkan gelombang
raksasa Cascading atas mereka, menyapu pasir dan mengekspos sekilas dari
semen dan struktur besi.Kim Clausen, kurator museum Ringkoebing-Skjern memandang pemanas diambil dari bungkerPerangko dari Eagle Jerman Adolf Hitler dan Swastika itu juga diambilMereka
terletak oleh dua sembilan tahun anak laki-laki berlibur dengan orang
tua mereka, yang kemudian memberitahu pihak berwenang.Arkeolog mampu memaksa hati-hati, dan merasa heran atas apa yang mereka temukan.'Apa
yang begitu fantastis adalah bahwa kita menemukan mereka benar-benar
dilengkapi dengan tempat tidur,' kursi, meja, sistem komunikasi, dan
barang pribadi para prajurit yang tinggal di dalam, "kata Jens Andersen,
kurator museum Hanstholm.Penemuan yang serba lengkap bunker adalah "unik di Eropa," kata Bent Anthonisen, pakar Denmark di bunker Eropa.Ahli Tommy Cassoe: "Seolah-olah Nazi baru saja pergi kemarin 'Dan seorang ahli ketiga, Tommy Cassoe, antusias: "Rasanya seperti memasuki jantung piramida dengan mumi di sekelilingnya. Wat saya melihat mengejutkan saya: seolah-olah para tentara Jerman meninggalkan baru kemarin ".Tim
bekerja dengan Cassoe mengosongkan struktur dalam beberapa hari sepatu
bot, pakaian dalam, kaus kaki, garis-garis militer, mustard dan botol
Aquavit, buku, inkpots, perangko yang menampilkan Hitler, obat, botol
soda, kunci, palu dan benda lainnya.Semua
objek dari tempat penampungan telah dibawa ke pusat konservasi di
Oelgod museum, sekitar 20 mil dari pantai untuk diperiksa.
Kurator Jerman pusat itu, Gert Nebrich, menilai menemukan 'sangat menarik karena sangat langka. ""Kami tidak mengharapkan objek kontemporer seperti ini begitu terjaga dengan baik. Mungkin
karena mereka dipelihara selama 60 tahun dalam, dingin dan gelap
seperti dalam ruang hampa besar "katanya, hati-hati menampilkan empatperangko yang menampilkan gambar Hitler dan elang Jerman, ditemukan di salah satu bunker.Jerman meninggalkan bunker Mei 1945 setelah penyerahan Nazi.Catatan
sejarah menunjukkan bahwa Gerhard Saalfed adalah seorang prajurit 17
tahun dengan tentara Jerman ketika ia tiba di bungker pada Januari 1945.Jerman
menyerah pada tanggal 8 Mei 1945, tetapi tidak sampai dua hari kemudian
bahwa dia dan teman tentaranya meninggalkan stasiun terpencil mereka.Mereka
menutup pintu baja dari bunker di belakang mereka di pantai terpencil
dan pergi ke kota terdekat sepuluh mil jauhnya untuk menyerah."Lokasi yang terpencil dari bunker dan pasir hanyut yang menutupi mereka menyelamatkan mereka dari yang dijarah," kata Cassoe.
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