You know who ELSE had bunkers in 1945?

/stalin, that's who

Jubeebee: You know who ELSE had bunkers in 1945?

/stalin, that's who

And the British Museum.

There are some neato WWII bunkers up the California coast off of Highway One that I saw on my trip recently.

Thankfully I finally came across some signage that verified they were in fact bunkers as some guy was trying to convince me that they were old septic tanks after I had been crawling around in them.

Isn't that pic from the opening sequence from Wolfenstein?

How can these bunkers' locations still be a secret at this point? Don't historians have access to Germany's WWII files and their secrets? Or did they have shredders back then?

Should I go to an information booth with all my questions? Should I fake my orgasms?

Good place to keep your Carlsberg chilled.

baka-san: Jubeebee: You know who ELSE had bunkers in 1945?

/stalin, that's who

And the British Museum.

And Archie and Edith.

PenguinCam: How can these bunkers' locations still be a secret at this point? Don't historians have access to Germany's WWII files and their secrets? Or did they have shredders back then?

Should I go to an information booth with all my questions? Should I fake my orgasms?

No shredders... but fire existed. Record keeping during a war is generally frowned upon. Likely the initial deployment plans were burned and then a farking storm covered it with sand.

You could always make a blog.

Expert Tommy Cassoe said: 'It was like entering a pyramid with mummies all around. It is as if the German soldiers had left only yesterday.'

Man, Hitler did a sorry job providing decent furnishings for his men.

Demetrius: And Archie and Edith.

fail.

Dammit I picked Belgians in my "Which country is more likely to have three Nazi bunkers untouched since 1945" bar pool.

You know who else liked to bust bunkers?

ctobio: Expert Tommy Cassoe said: 'It was like entering a pyramid with mummies all around. It is as if the German soldiers had left only yesterday.'

Man, Hitler did a sorry job providing decent furnishings for his men.

I was looking at this though that the Nazi's had terrible house keeping if they considered this to be "as if they left yesterday"

Damn Sand People.

/Mandatory

Time to re-man the Maginot line.

Ich bin ein Archie Bunker.

Tr0mBoNe: PenguinCam: How can these bunkers' locations still be a secret at this point? Don't historians have access to Germany's WWII files and their secrets? Or did they have shredders back then?


No shredders... but fire existed. Record keeping during a war is generally frowned upon. Likely the initial deployment plans were burned and then a farking storm covered it with sand.

And don't forget that the Allies were blowing lots of German shiat up. US bombers or Ruskie Katushyas could have destroyed them too.

I got nothin.

/Came here to Godwin the thread
//How do you Godwin a thread that's already got a built-in Hitler reference?
///Well since everyone else has done it...

Hitler's chair doesn't look too kampfy.

Demetrius: And Archie and Edith.

well played

"No, the lampshades are NOT stylish"

Rebus

Nice one, I ummm, did that thing which people customarily do when they come across humor.

Link to an article with same story that isn't the Daily Mail (new window)

/people need to stop linking to the Daily Mail
//you can catch the crazy from those morans

ctobio: Expert Tommy Cassoe said: 'It was like entering a pyramid with mummies all around. It is as if the German soldiers had left only yesterday.'

Man, Hitler did a sorry job providing decent furnishings for his men.

I thought the same thing. No, it doesn't look like they left yesterday. It looks like the place has been rotting for decades.

PenguinCam: How can these bunkers' locations still be a secret at this point? Don't historians have access to Germany's WWII files and their secrets? Or did they have shredders back then?

Should I go to an information booth with all my questions? Should I fake my orgasms?

I doubt that they were ever actually "secret." More likely, they were just forgotten about. With thousands of these all over Europe, the chaos of the time makes an empty bunker pretty unimportant. Eventually, people forget about their location, sand covers them up and they're lost until something like the storm happens. You'd be surprised about how many things become "lost" after 50 or so years if no one makes a point of remembering them.

/I know, I know it's Sunday night....

ChadManMn: Rebus

Nice one, I ummm, did that thing which people customarily do when they come across humor.

Hi:

You touched yourself?

Has TFA been updated with different pictures since this thread went live?

Ha. Speaking of mass-murder.....

See the story on the sidebar?

"Anthony Worrall-Thompson tells magazine readers to use poisonous weed Dr Crippen used to kill his wife in salads"

Sounds like today's made-for-Fark headline!
/+1 to anyone who submits it.

The Silent Man

That was too funny. It's been said a million times on Fark...you owe me a new keyboard.

A link on the page with TFA has this hottie. Not sharp at all!

Reminds me of the guy that found a WWII bunker under his garden and blogged it.

http://gardenbunker.blogspot.com/ (new window)

sunbird: Link to an article with same story that isn't the Daily Mail (new window)

/people need to stop linking to the Daily Mail
//you can catch the crazy from those morans

Same story, same photos. Why the hate? What are you compensating for?

Those pics are making me want to put down my Springfield scoped rifle, pick up an MP-40, change my mind and switch to a Thompson, and run in there blasting.

"Hoooogan!!"

OK, I'm done.

GreenPeaness: Demetrius: And Archie and Edith.

fail.

Apparently you don't know the meaning of the word, or fail to be aware of the classic TV comedy "All in the Family."

TheGreyPiper: sunbird: Link to an article with same story that isn't the Daily Mail (new window)

/people need to stop linking to the Daily Mail
//you can catch the crazy from those morans

Same story, same photos. Why the hate? What are you compensating for?

I hate the daily mail because I'm and illegal immigrant who likes lowering house prices and they spoil my fun.

"Mr. Hitler, tear down that bunker!"

One of the three bunkers was an entrance to the underground alien bases. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised which one is the entrance.

/Ok, it's the one closest to the north pole

Abox: Those pics are making me want to put down my Springfield scoped rifle, pick up an MP-40, change my mind and switch to a Thompson, and run in there blasting.

Nah, stick with the MP-40.... there's always more ammo laying around in a bunker

oldweevil: I got nothin.

/Came here to Godwin the thread
//How do you Godwin a thread that's already got a built-in Hitler reference?
///Well since everyone else has done it...

Hitler's chair doesn't look too kampfy.

Gosh! What's that smell? :-)

When I was a kid in the 1970's I used to play around old German bunkers on the Pte de Grave on the Atlantic coast. Jebus X there were a lot of them, and they were some seriously thick-cement buildings.

In some places people had converted them into houses. I hear the French govt is tearing most of them down now.

/aaaahh....French beaches
//acres of bare breasts, a teen's dream.

MIguy: OK, I'm done.

ya know...I never noticed this about that picture before: is that a grenade next to the kitty?

I wonder if you can smoke tobacco in those things?