I'm wondering if the French would now have preferred that we hadn't rid them and the rest of the world of the threat of Nazism?
Please say a prayer for the soldiers who risked and oftentimes gave their lives so that the world could be a much better place....despite what the French may now think.
This is just too interesting to miss.
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Wow. Thats an impressive find.
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Did he grab those metals off skeletons?
So a 20 acre military facility can go, apparently undetected, for 60 years in peacetime France... yet, some people are absolutely certain that there's nothing left to find in rather more trying conditions in Iraq...
"All your base now belong to us..."
Although I appreciate you sentiments, the reasons we went to war against the Nazi onslaught had very little to do with specifically, liberating France. That was just one of the positive consequences.
Gary was quoted as saying "All your base belong to ME!"
A long time passed since this bunker was used.
And it was only recently discovered.
And the Dems think it's easy to find Saddams projects?!
Whoa! Well kept secret. Amazing.
Ping, weird find.
bump for later after the coffee kicks in.
Interesting that it was an Englishman who found the site, and one who had the foresight to do something constructive with it (rather than loot it for saleable items). I wonder if either the French or German governments will try to grab the site or its contents from him?
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"Private historian", eh?
Finds an interesting place, researches it, buys, invests in it, and will promote it.
BUT, if this were a dinosaur fossil site, he'd be castigated and denigrated by the (socialist) (government-funded) researchers.
Just unreal! Acres and acres and no one ever found this?? Just one more thing to chalk up to the French.......
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1693425,00.html
Hidden for 60 years: the Nazi beach bunker found by Briton
Kim Willsher in Paris
Tuesday January 24, 2006
The Guardian
A secret underground military complex abandoned by the Nazis as allied forces stormed Normandy after D-day has been found by an English amateur historian.
Gary Sterne came across the series of bunkers that had lain untouched for more than 60 years after buying a second world war map from an old American soldier. Armed with his map he visited the area near the Normandy beaches of Utah and Omaha, where he found the entrance to the military complex hidden under bramble bushes. He was astonished to discover a labyrinth of bunkers, control rooms and equipment abandoned by the Germans.
Mr Sterne, a collector of military memorabilia, said he had been intrigued by the idea of a hidden complex after buying a 1940s German army map from a former US serviceman. He said he had no real idea what he was looking for when he visited the area detailed in the map around Grandcamp Maisy in Normandy.
"I didn't know where I was going but I started to walk across the field when suddenly I found myself walking on concrete," he told Ouest France newspaper.
"I followed the concrete right up to the edge of some trees and it was there I suddenly found the entrance to the underground block, then a tunnel, an office, a supplies warehouse, general quarters, a radio room, other blocks and, most importantly, a room with supports for 155mm guns," he added. "It even had an underground hospital. The Germans had left behind many personal possessions."
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