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The Falkenhagen Bunker is an abandoned semi-submerged and bunker-level military industrial complex, just north of the town of Falkenhagen in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany. It was originally designed by Nazi Germany for the production of N-stoff ( chlorine trifluoride ); it never reached its potential before being ...
Typical industrial bunkers include mining sites, food storage areas, dumps for materials, data storage, and sometimes living quarters. They were built mainly by nations like Germany during World War II to protect important industries from aerial bombardment. Industrial bunkers are also built for control rooms of dangerous activities, such as ...
Marnate's Bunker is a military monument of World War II, with the purpose of being used as an industrial bunker. It is located in Valle Olona ( Varese ), Italy , between the boundaries of Marnate , Olgiate Olona and Gorla Minore .
During World War II, about 200 concrete bunkers for Nazi soldiers were built along the Danish coast.
The bunker complex, designated as Hill 61 and codenamed Hillman by the British, was attacked on 6 June 1944 by the Suffolk Regiment and the fortress finally surrendered the following morning. [1] The delay in taking the bunker complex has been cited as a reason for the Allies not completing their major D-Day objective of taking Caen .
The bunker complex was a secure U.S. government storage facility from World War II until 2013. As of April 2015, Smart Warehousing, based in Kansas , owns the Atchison Caves. [ 1 ]
The Zeppelin bunker was erected by the Reichspost on the orders of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht at the end of the 1930s. [3] The bunker was built between 1937 and 1939 in the area of the so-called Stalag (German: Stammlager) as a signal intelligence centre. The code name for the bunker was Amt 500, i.e., (Postal) Office 500.
The Blockhaus d'Éperlecques (English: Bunker of Éperlecques, also referred to as "the Watten bunker" or simply "Watten") [5] is a Second World War bunker, now part of a museum, near Saint-Omer in the northern Pas-de-Calais département of France, and only some 14.4 kilometers (8.9 miles) north-northwest from the more developed La Coupole V-2 launch facility, in the same general area.