welcome to it's history in 360 degrees this is a very special video you will want to see anthony
parents summary of the nazi train bunkers before you go on this expedition with me today for those
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anyhow we are at a nazi train bunker in southern poland this was built during the occupation of
the second world war if you pan forward you will see a clearing and this is where train
tracks once would have led nazi armored trains into their protective bunker things have changed
since then but there are photos from the time period and from the location i'm standing in now
of hitler meeting with mussolini and basically this exact spot so if you pan around you'll get a
small imagination of what the world may have looked like through his very very sick eyes
hitler made two trips to this bunker and it is massive later in the video we will do an exterior
tour so we will actually walk the entire half kilometer distance but just a little sneak preview
but there are some trees and a lot of moss growing above this structure and that is because there
are so many such bunkers throughout poland well not train bunkers there are only a few of those
uh but there are so many bunkers that maintaining all of them
would be highly exhaustive and counterproductive to the state's budget so now we are actually
entering the bunker and here you can see massive closable doors that would be used to protect
the trains of statements during an attack i do not believe they were ever necessary but everything
was prepared for the worst case scenario of these walls around me are approximately seven
feet thick so for the technology of the time this was for all practical purposes
bomb proof being very very hard to infiltrate
excuse me i can't speak it would be very very difficult to infiltrate infiltrate this structure
at this table here if you if you pan the camera forward you will see that famous picture of hitler
meeting with mussolini now it's assumed that this was a little bit more camouflaged
seems that there was a wooden platform and this meeting took place in august of 1941.
the structure itself was built by the hands of slaves and for all the things
nazis get a bad reputation about i think the slave driving and the looting this is kind of
uh one of the things that shows the greatest weakness in their character you know they were
completely self-centered and willing to gain at everyone else's expense if you can if you pan the
camera forward now you'll actually see an aerial picture of this bunker give you an idea for just
how long it is and again we're going to actually walk that a little bit later in this video now the
bunker itself was outfitted with a technical infrastructure there is a very decrepit building
on private property not far from here that unfortunately we can't access but that's where
the power plant and most of the tools necessary to actually run this bunker would have been
you can see here our kind of side estate escape chambers uh so if an air raid would be happening
the uh soldiers they could hunker down extra car in this area you still have
leftover remnants of the air filtration system here if you can in front you'll see another one
this environment is very dark there's almost a mist
in here if you just look straight down this tunnel you'll see the thickness of the air and feel the
creepiness of the place and although this is abandoned now for many years
i would argue that it was probably never much friendlier feeling i doubt that the hair
ever smells nicer than it does today military bunkers are purely pragmatic i was speaking
with a soldier once and he explained to me that soldiers don't fight with honor
they fight to accomplish their mission so if that means you kill someone you don't do it necessarily
in an honorable way you do it in the way that makes them dead the most effectively and the
most rapidly military infrastructure in general from the places that i visited
set out to achieve the same pragmatic effect so this building built in the hands of slaves
should protect you and your train from being bombed and it's not a place to be cozy it's
not a place to feel good nothing like that here there's a small piece of what i believe will be
an exhibition you can pan to your right or to your left and you'll actually find the relics
train tracks and the fittings for the train tracks that were removed they were removed
during the communist period of poland's history so after the war when this space was converted
into a mushroom factory it's uh might sound strange but again country was in ruins so kind of
any structure that you had available to you at the time was of great value and people forget
that in western europe allies were making efforts to rebuild those lands were flattened as well
but uh i'm curious if there was a type of desperation that required for people to put
factories into bunkers things of that nature so these side chambers as you go further you find
that the space is more and more flooded humid wet muddy even and uh that makes an impression
i visited another such bunker in a completely different part of the country and it was
and it was completely flooded couldn't even pass through it again these monuments
are difficult to maintain they're huge you'd really need millions to upkeep this in perfect
condition time time has its way for sure you can see some of the sub infrastructure wow now if you
pan down you'll see some of the piping where the utilities would have run inside of this bunker
there is more to it than meets the eye
no it's definitely my impression as well it would make sense because this would have been sealed up
and do you know what happened with the train tracks well i was i was
kind of wondering this was used as a mushroom processing mushroom
and you can see that the floor is getting muddy here where it probably floods
so they just reassemble it
yeah i found a utility for it and as weird as that is i almost wonder if it's better because
now the purpose of this is to serve as a museum but it's going to be expensive to maintain
look at that just like flooded chamber flooded chamber do we look in that one
i don't know for certain but i think that this would have been a place to
like literally bunker down the last time i was here i wasn't i don't think i was able to walk
this far because it was completely flooded and maybe in this place we get a little bit of feeling
well maybe not the tracks but the reinforcements to hold the train
it's pretty imposing right well the general theme
the other one i was in the other part of poland didn't have any lights and now here
looks like we're going out ah not so fast
so yeah i believe that i was once on that side and that there's actually more infrastructure to this
but considering the steel gate seems we're not going anywhere anytime soon
kicking off where we left off at the end of this train bunker we'll take a moment to explore the
outsides here a little bit this bunker is deep in the polish village i just want to emphasize this
is very very much in the total middle of nowhere you can see that there's effectively forest just
growing right into the bunker itself and one of the strange factors here is that the bunker is
rather curved you notice that uh it's angled at times but for some reason seems unintuitive
to me you know you would think that a train bunker would just pull in just straight line
i guess it must be level on the inside but from this perspective the ground around it all the
hills around us leaves me with the impression that you know this is generally not a level area so the
ingenuity to build a bunker like this must have taken immense planning you don't often think about
that it's one thing to look at this and say oh my god it's mammoth and it's in the middle of nowhere
it's another thing to consider that this huge work was built with slaves
but then when you think about the ingenuity that went into this the planning the mathematics
the concept even it really really makes you wonder i've i've said some unpopular things
with regards to nazis uh on one trip to berlin when i visited uh some remnants of a bomb church
it occurred to me that in some way there were german people who were also victims of the
war i mean they didn't necessarily want their country to go on this campaign some people did
but there are just normal everyday citizens everyday people who couldn't give a shit
about bunkers like this wouldn't want to finance it certainly wouldn't want
to you know catch slaves and make slaves build something like this but then on the flip side
there are high iq types right that believe in a mission they believe in a vision
to the point that they could justify this kind of ingenuity at the hands
of slaves and for a purpose that would really not benefit the majority of society there's a lot of
talk these days about minorities and majorities i would argue that the nazis they did not have
the majority of people at heart by any means they had their own sick visions their own egos
in their hearts i mean you think about it even if they paid proper laborers to build this
they would have done so with stolen money they were looting in poland there is a legend about a
gold train a lot of people believe that there was a train loaded up with loot that didn't make it
out of the territory and was hidden somewhere in lower silesia you see something like this
and i almost can't help but believe that it would be a possibility the sophistication of the evils
that the nazis committed themselves to it becomes really really apparent when you visit something
like this i've been to auschwitz birkenau and that's a moving place that's a touching place
this is a bunker in the middle of a field that very few people know about
that was intended to accommodate an entire train probably the most scary factor is that
i could make a whole channel just dedicated to bunkers such as this got some dudes partying here
and you know got people who would be mad at those guys for drinking beers next to this bunker but
i don't take it as a sacramental site one way or another in fact you know i heard about the video
of auschwitz victims coming back to auschwitz and dancing there very controversial and uh i
wouldn't encourage something like that but you know there's another way to look at it that
you take the seriousness and dignity away from something that was intended to dominate
huge sloths of people well
that kind of sacrilege might be okay
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