AMAZING SECRET GERMAN ARMY HQ MAYBACH ZEPPELIN

[@beachcomberbloke462]

Another brilliant presentation,shining a light on the darkness of our past.Like a jigsaw puzzle you put the pieces together to give us the whole picture.Also the Atlantic Wall defenses on the Channel Islands near France are worth a visit.Very impressive gun batteries,bunkers and 2 large underground hospitals!!

[@MilitaryIndustrialMuseum]

Nobody else is doing such an expansive video study, really interesting configurations, and constructions!

[@tinostruckmann]

thank you buddy, there will be an update in my next QA about this

[@rhondaharrell4828]

One soldiers junk is another soldiers treasure :-) And great words of wisdom there too. We can't right a wrong when it comes to past wars. We can't make the past disappear if we cover up or tear down the memories. We can only learn thru instruction. We hold those in power accountable and we honor the individual soldiers that fought for their homeland. Friend or foe.

[@tinostruckmann]

I wish the governments saw it that way, all we face is coverups and re-writes of history it is truly disturbing how some people today want to re-write and delete history. But we have seen that in the past... and some of knows what comes after that...

[@rhondaharrell4828]

@@tinostruckmann regrettably we know

[@4rdF1Hunny]

I actually enjoy the random walking and searching. You never know.

[@tinostruckmann]

Me too its the best part

[@pablopeter3564]

An armchair historian is good, a field historian is EXCELLENT, specially if he enjoys what he is doing and knows his stuff, we all can tell that. Thanks ¡ You are paying tribute to my father and grandfather sacrifice.

[@rhyskyler3777]

i guess im asking the wrong place but does anyone know a trick to get back into an Instagram account?? I somehow lost my password. I would love any help you can offer me.

[@sdolan2280]

Thank you for documenting this history while it still exist.

[@National757]

This stuff is fascinating and frustrating all at the same time! Very interesting seeing the search, and your finds. But frustrating because so much of it was destroyed. The best part of searching for history. Just taking it all in and imagining what it was like in the day!

[@tinostruckmann]

Well said!

[@National757]

@@tinostruckmann I have two uncles that fought against the Germans, in Germany (Canadian Armed Forces) in WWII. They saw some real terrible stuff. Including what was done to some of their fellow allied soldiers by the Germans. To the day they died they disliked anything German. Despite their atrocities, it really is amazing what the Germans did engineering wise during the war. Both in weapons/equipment, and structures/bunkers/infrastructure. It is scary to think, but if not for Hitler being out of it on drugs, out of his mind, and failing to follow his Generals recommendations towards the end of the war, there could have been a much different outcome. Except for their evil goals, the Germans were well organized, with excellent design and engineering, and brilliant execution. Just stretched far too thin as the war raged on, and resources were destroyed or used up.

[@richardcarlson2644]

Thanks Tino looking forward to your winter discoveries!

[@tinostruckmann]

You and me both! as soon as the snow is gone I will be back for lots more

[@Firefox131]

One of the last items you found was a vacuum tube base (3) for a radio.

[@douglasgurney934]

My family spent most of their lives in the east after the war. The Russians ran the east with an iron fist. They drilled into them they lost, placed their boots on the necks of the DDR. It does not surprise me that there is no info and no one wants to relive it. Its not just the war, its how badly they were abused. Its very sad...

[@tinostruckmann]

That is very true, and I see it in a lot of Germans in general, very authoritarian but some time they need to let their human curiosity shine through and open up closed boxes. But I understand it too, especially those who lived through it.

[@yeshuas_follower]

You are absolutely right with what you have said in regards to the memories and telling as it was. This is all so interesting. Many thanks for bringing all of this to us 😀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@tinostruckmann]

Glad you enjoyed it - more to come

[@Mr.kashokoy]

Sir, ang ganda po,nag papakits na malayo na ang kanilang nararating. Advance, ang isip o gawa. Kahit pi sa iroplano o tank moderni na po sila.. Pati po bala o baril, moderno na sila nuon. At nag plano na sakupin ang mundo.

[@anthonytamilio9501]

I'm a huge fan of yours tino someday I would love to collab on a project with another ww2 fanatic like myself. Its people like you. Who inspire me to get into acting and collecting/ preserving history

[@tinostruckmann]

Absolutely, there more the better. where in the world are you. i should be back in Europe within 2 month for a month of exploration and filming

[@anthonytamilio9501]

Massachusetts. About 25 min north of Boston

[@profpep]

Fascinating trip. Thank you. A thought that might be useful: I have seen fallen trees with short roots under the tree resulting from the tree trying to grow in shallow soil over a buried concrete slab.

[@tinostruckmann]

I am amazed at how little dirt some trees need to grow...

[@Leehensman]

I grew up in the British army during OP BAOR British Army of the Rhineland, both parents served i used to play in all the bunkers and ruins like this, but was always respectful, was amazing the things we used to find, is what turned me into a military history junkie. Ps fantastic videos by the way.

[@tinostruckmann]

That is how I started , it gets addictive right lol

[@Leehensman]

@@tinostruckmann my mini museum in front room agrees with you.👍😂

[@Leehensman]

@@tinostruckmann sadly broke my neck and back ‐ back in 97 so wheelchair bound for life stuck on civy street so your videos are literally my window to my world, you take me to the places I will never be able to see so please don't stop making these videos and please don't think no one appreciates them or you because I do.👍

[@manjitsoni9676]

23:49 ਤੇ ਮੈਗਜ਼ੀਨ ਬਹੁਤ ਵਧੀਆ ਜੀ ਦੇਖਣਾਂ ਵਧੀਆ ਲੱਗਦਾ ਹੈ 70 ਸਾਲ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਇਥੇ ਕਿੰਨੇ ਸੈਨਿਕਾਂ ਨੇ ਸ਼ਹੀਦੀ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕੀਤੀ ਹੋਣੀ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਕਿੰਨੇ ਸੈਨਿਕਾਂ ਨੇ ਬਹਾਦਰੀ ਨਾਲ ਯੁੱਧ ਵਿੱਚ ਹਿਸਾ ਲਿਆ ਹੋਣਾ ਕਿਨੇਂ ਨਿਰਦੋਸ਼ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਦੀ ਜਾਨ ਇਸ ਯੁੱਧ ਵਿੱਚ ਗੲੀ ਹੋਣੀ ਆਂ 54:14 ਤੇ ਕਿਸੇ ਚੀਜ ਦਾ ਪੈਨਲ ਸਵਿੱਚ ਜਾ ਮੀਟਰਾਂ ਦੇ ਹੋਲ ਲੱਗ ਰਹੇ ਨੇ ਵੀਡੀਓ ਲਈ ਧੰਨਵਾਦ ਜੀ।

[@Teresa-ih4sn]

Man! You are so darn lucky to be able to do this! I would have brought all the cups, everything home! Too cool!❤

[@tinostruckmann]

well they are still there so lets go fetch for you:-)

[@Teresa-ih4sn]

@@tinostruckmann you should do tours! There are a lot of people who would love to go with. Keep up with the butt shots too! Lol

[@justanoldman9762]

Sir yet another first class video the presentation is a credit to your research and radical thinking ,and I must agree with the last comment ,Please keep up your travels and the video's And stay safe. THANK YOU .

[@tinostruckmann]

Many thanks I really appreciate you saying so, Ill be on my way to film more for you all soon.

[@soringherghe219]

This is better than going to a museum more practik

[@tinostruckmann]

And Im more fun than the people working there - trust me lol

[@soringherghe219]

Because you put some heart into your films not like some office clerk

[@paulhoffman6371]

Very correct! The soldiers were, and are still today, the pawns put in play when political ideologies conflict.

[@mikehardwick352]

What a great video,all this is history ,keep searching we will watch

[@tinostruckmann]

Glad you enjoyed it I will do

[@jasonfarrell1907]

As you walk various areas, I can't help notice all of the downed trees & stumps. There is a lot, "A LOT", of deadwood, bent trees, stumps, odd foliage. You mention areas of missing & thinned trees - several of the "trenches", ground depressions, have stumps in front of them. It takes a very long time for stumps to decompose to dust / soil, so I ask, "who cut all the wood in a now unvisited area, why was it cut, do the stumps reveal firing positions, cleared lines of fire?" Many of the areas look like they were covered by deadwood, expecting it to catch leaves & become forest floor, but it was done haphazard & is now just, deadwood. Germans are usually very good with forest management, this place is crap. My thoughts as an ex tree-climber, great series, thanks.

[@patrichausammann]

Yes, these places are very suspicious! It's also strange that the Soviets left NBC equipment and a magazine there. I would like to check this region with a Geiger counter.

[@huntabascan]

There is one thing I want to mention, the Russians you refer were Soviets. They might spoke Russian, but did many others. On the other hand, it is a good presentation.

[@tinostruckmann]

true noted :-)

[@thomashageman6547]

Thank you so much for all the hard work.

[@tinostruckmann]

My pleasure! thank you

[@richardbehrends3128]

I sure enjoyed your walk which reminds me of my walks in Atwood Park which was formerly the rifle and artillery range at Camp Grant in Rockford Illinois. There are still some structures including trenches, trench bunkers and target pit.. I have been researching for about 15 yrs WWII German POW Camps in Northern Illinois and 6 yrs ago WWII German POW Camps in Southern Indiana. I now live by the old Jeffersonville Indiana Quartermaster Depot which also had a German POW branch camp of Fort Knox. Houses have been built where the Germans were housed but the area where the guards were quartered in is now part of a dog park. Back in the early 60's when I was a Boy Scout we slept in what had been one of the building the Germans lived in at Camp Pine in Des Plaines, IL. Camp Pine was a branch camp for Fort Sheridan. When I lived by Camp Grant I lived by 3 of Camp Grant's branch camps. One was in Kirkland, one in Sycamore and the other in Hampshire. A lot of people have no idea that during WWII German and Italian soldiers where held in the US. The next town east of me Charlestown the Germans help build the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant. You should do some videos about this part of WWII in the US.

[@tinostruckmann]

That is a very interesting study we tried to find the remains of the camp outside Fort Campbell once but as I could ascertain There is nothing left except maybe some foundations of houses, So how many German and Italian POWs were there here and how long after the war did they stay? I'm curious

[@richardbehrends3128]

@@tinostruckmann My stepson was a EOD Tech and station at Fort Campbell. On our first visit there he took me out in the woods to show me where 5 of the Germans POW's are buried. 425,000 POW's were sent to the US between 1942-1945. It took between 18 to 24 months before they return to Germany. Don't know the exact number them that went from the US to England to clean up from the Luftwaffe and the V1 and V2 bombing. I have also visited German POW graves at Fort Sheridan and the National Cemetery by Fort Custer in Michigan.

[@tinostruckmann]

@@richardbehrends3128 That is very interesting, is there anything left of the barracks in which they were housed anywhere?

[@richardbehrends3128]

@@tinostruckmann I know about this one as I know someone who volunteers there. camphearne.com/ In Sycamore, Illinois one of the buildings from that branch camp is now part of a company called UpStaging which my stepson worked till last yr. which I have been inside of. If you Google Earth street view for 199 Main St. Kirkland, Illinois you can see some small homes where Germans where housed.

[@tinostruckmann]

Well actually yes, pretty much all of it, It was a military town, just Jutburg, built as for the military. Today most of the buildings have been turned into regular apartment buildings, but besides paint they still look the same, and they are pretty much identical - when I go back I will run the drone over that part of town.

[@frankwagner2161]

Thank you so much for your interesting research.

[@davidgoddard2599]

thankyou so much for doing these' I love discovering things kind of a rush.seems to trigger imagination memory and so much more.the respect you seem to give the soldiers.very well done

[@tinostruckmann]

You are so welcome! much more to come.

[@SueGirling68]

Hi, I am really loving this channel, I subscribed yesterday 20th April 2021 and already I am very impressed with how you actively go out looking for what is left of these battlefields, awesome. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 🙏💖

[@tinostruckmann]

Welcome aboard! A lot more to come

[@mo9620]

Those were some sneaky bunkers , looking like big farms .

[@tinostruckmann]

I know -- I want one

[@daveb5540]

Wish I had been there, I love looking for that kind of stuff, :). It's possible that those very narrow long trenches were cable runs for communications.

[@tinostruckmann]

Yes absolutely it was all about Communications

[@andrewbarron7690]

Thanks for the interesting video. A great place to explore. An area like that with a lengthy modern history involving different political regimes and more than one nation is fascinating to see.

[@tinostruckmann]

I though so, and I look forward to going back

[@davidcassidy5868]

Nice work, sir. Thank-You for this interesting post. 👍 Hope You do more.

[@tinostruckmann]

More to come!

[@TyZaTube]

Always great content thanks Tino

[@tinostruckmann]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jasoncasey7009]

This is a very good show keep up the good show I have no legs so it’s the only way I get to see this kind of thing so thank you 🙏

[@tinostruckmann]

I am sorry for your loss brother, sometimes shit happens and we have to make the best of it. I will try to go to all of them and show you. if you have any special requests let me know in an email.

[@discoverynorthcarolina9824]

There were tunnels under the various US Army barracks in Nuremberg and Stuttgart......they wouldn’t let us explore them because of Bobby-Traps. Which would go off and shake the building at times.....can only imagine what was down there. We were told some tunnels had trucks sitting in them.....

[@tinostruckmann]

Im good to go looking, Ill chance it. What base were you at there.

[@discoverynorthcarolina9824]

Darby Kaserne, Furth Nuremberg

[@callamediarok1470]

I love garbage dumps - incredibly interesting !

[@jamesjanson6129]

Your very circular holes in the ground are more than likely old bomb craters.My German part of my fam live on a former Luftwaffe/Wehrmacht fuel processing depot in lower Franconia,the whole forest around it is littered with bomb craters that look exactly like that after 70+/- years.

[@williseiner7373]

I always rummage around in the woods like that :-)

[@tinostruckmann]

I know I follow you too lol Maybe we should go digging when I get back in a few month

[@williseiner7373]

@@tinostruckmann - There will be a lot of rubbish buried there

[@tinostruckmann]

@@williseiner7373 I like rubbish sometimes :-)

[@gregsnyder8392]

Thank you for your efforts.I agree with you beliefs about destroying history.Please keep up your good work and I will look forward to following your channel..best regards.

[@tinostruckmann]

Thank you, I will try not to disappoint

[@Mr.kashokoy]

Sir, may gusali sa ilalim ng lupa. May lihin na nakarago. maganda na mapanganib.

[@derekpierkowski7641]

Good show. Think it was their dump. Enjoyed poking through with ya.

[@tinostruckmann]

some peoples trash right lol

[@martinlenselink5029]

love You`re clips.

[@MrGabsoriano]

I lived in various parts of Germany. And as an 8 year old boy scout we would camp in the woods often. At the time I did not realize all the large "holes" in the ground were from munitions impact. As a teen I realized what they were and would camp and sought out lesser known WW 2 battlegrounds. As an adult my military unit would set up DFPs and LPOPs until we accidently found 200 lbs rounds or Stielhandgranaten. Fun times.. It would be cool to go back and continue those long walks and camping. Not the digging around and finding the pucker factors. LOL

[@tinostruckmann]

I did the same as a kid in Denmark, so do you think there are any more battlefields in Germany we have not found yet? something still in the ground?

[@MrGabsoriano]

@@tinostruckmann Yes I do, more skirmish lines than battlefields. as a kid we would camp the Taunus mountain range and find little odd and ends. Nothing major. But When I was stationed at Rhein Main AB in Frankfurt....or Sembach AB, we would find things that went boom. After Rhein Main AB closed, the civilian airport build cargo city over that area. At Sembach AB they found a 200 lbs booms near the ATOC during construction. As a security detail I got to go underground (unauthorized) in the Wiesbaden Medical center after it was abandoned. There were large tunnels which had been bricked off. As I teen I always heard there were tunnels that lead from the hospital to the train station and other areas. After what I saw, I believe it.

[@tinostruckmann]

@@MrGabsoriano I hear a lot of stories from the guys who came back from being stationed in Germany of underground hallways and storage facilities bunkers and tunnels under bases or near them I always wondered if they're still there, after all unfortunately the Germans have a tendency of destroying anything historic:-(

[@edbridges1164]

I Have Been Watching Your Content all Day 22/03/2021 and I have really enjoyed it as I'm very interested in History especially Modern History the WWII especially! I Have Subscribed to your channel

[@tinostruckmann]

YAY I am glad to entertain, and welcome to the club.

[@sampointau]

You need to get yourself a "Pointer" which is a metal detecting fine location pointer, the tip points at the metal. Simple to use and easy to carry, you would be able to detect rebar and other metal a small distance underground or in rocks.

[@tinostruckmann]

I have one, just sometimes I have to do either filming or digging lol I figure digging may be slightly less interesting for you all to watch. But Ill start doing more active searching

[@jasonfarrell1907]

Tino, if you can't fly a drone in places, but want an elevated perspective / overview, invest in some basic tree climbing equipment. I'm certain you have vast rappelling experience from the military, it's just a rappel in reverse. Tree climbing, in general, isn't illegal & it's easy to shoot a rope up high to gain quick access.

[@tinostruckmann]

oho my kind of madness I like you lol, well I could but the trees are in the way most of the time. I am not done there, I just did not know the guides would be ....hmm how shall I put it.... nah Ill be nice:-)

[@jasonfarrell1907]

There's a "place" where big wall rock climbing, industrial tree climbing & & bit of caving meet to create roped access to almost anything. If one studies the SHERRILLtree catalogue & the full Petzl catalogue (industrial & climbing), the only restriction is the imagination - giant sling shots for haul lines & throw bags, you'll be 100ft up in 15 minutes & from there you can even build a traverse. Happy travels.

[@Chevroletman5]

Very Nice

[@tinostruckmann]

Thanks, there will be an update in my next AQ

[@legacyShredder1]

54:14 That's the rack harness for a vacuum tube/valve leveling amplifier that was used to prevent loud audio dynamics from damaging any speakers and other devices receiving the audio signal. They make quiet noises louder and loud noises quieter, basically squishing the audio so there aren't drastic peaks that will damage sensitive equipment. I still currently use the same type of leveling amplifier (also called a compressor) in my recording studio today, in fact I have several server racks full of them. I've pulled hundreds, if not thousands, of tubes/valves out of that exact style of military rack harness you found. (The tubes are worth a shitload of money, and the audio community has several common pieces of gear that require those tubes. People go ape-shit over vintage tubes. I prefer modern tubes personally.) Edit: The military typically would have used it for either an off compound broadcast or for an internal intercoms system. The ministry of propaganda would have also used them in their radio broadcasts. It was most likely made under licensing from either Neumann or Telefunken. Both of these two German companies were closely related to Hitler and the Nazi party as they were the preferred microphone and audio equipment manufacturers of Hitler. Neumann made several extremely specific mics just for Hitler's speeches, recordings, and his radio broadcasts. Both companies still make top level equipment to this very day. However Telefunken is no longer German as its trademark is currently owned and operated in the USA.

[@CatsCoffeeCrime]

Excellent!

[@tinostruckmann]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@wtfeatapples2101]

Could spend a very long time there haha. These are the type of vacations I need to plan.

[@tinostruckmann]

Start packing :-) Ill arrange tours as soon as we can:-) its more fun with numbers..

[@jbrobertson6052]

Awesome video and also the first time I have ever seen you speechless lol.

[@tinostruckmann]

If you had seen me yelling at the guide you would be delighted lol

[@jbrobertson6052]

@@tinostruckmann Lol Some of the guides I have seen you with are pretty damn good at their jobs. Tino I have watched a lot of documentaries on this subject and I've learnt more from your few videos here than I have in years and for that I want to say thank you for your hard work

[@Teresa-ih4sn]

Sorry for the second comment, can't edit??? Anyway big thank you for not being squed all toward the US. And before anti Nazis start sniveling, I am a US Navy vet. They fought like our people. Same love of family and country. All Warriors.

[@jadeekelgor2588]

I didnt see an answer...but the ax head you found is a side ax. One side is flat. It's a rough carpenters ax good for making wood shingles. Thing is...these are common. Made all over western or european areas and a speciality tool. Like most things one finds from the past the more common the find the less common the usage. Stuff that's used gets used up. The russian trash dump looked like just that. A dump for miscellaneous trash. With proper signage for both military and native flora, as well as marked cleared paths this would be a nice place for a hike or bike.

[@tinostruckmann]

I know it was just cool to find something from that era.

[@davidgaul6743]

i wonder if there is still an ' underground ' to this

[@tinostruckmann]

There is, I was there filming as much as I could- going back in a month Ill show you lots more

[@Zorglub1966]

at 1:24 it reminds me the barracks in Quartier Napoleon, in Berlin. Same colors, same autserity

[@tinostruckmann]

its not far from Berlin, when were those built, I have not been.

[@Zorglub1966]

@@tinostruckmann if i understand properly (i'm not native english speake) the Quartier Napoleon was the former Hermann Gôering Kaserne, built in 1936, it was adjacent to the Tegel airport.

[@egger46]

Could any of those holes be bomb craters? Wasn't that area heavily bombed during the war?

[@tinostruckmann]

They could have been the British did bomb Maybach II but that is a few kilometers away and some of these holes and grooves seem to uniform 4 random bombing I'm going to Maybach II in a few months and will take a look

[@feldgendarmridpath7893]

I don ´t know if you have since discovered the real ruins of Maybach 2 but if you google earth the site you will see a road running from Maybach 1 towards Wundsdorf.After a short distance is a large solar panel field.On the opposite side from the road is Maybach 2.Not clear but when I went to that road I could see the top of a Maybach roof so there are more substantial ruins than you found.I never went in the woods you were in.You should have headed towards the far edge of the wood.Nice finds.

[@tinostruckmann]

I found it, thank you so much for reaching out. I expect to be crawling round it in a month:-)

[@sampointau]

That aluminium can at 37:10 that was slightly crushed looks the same/similar to WW2 German field ration tin.

[@tinostruckmann]

Good eye, there really is a mix of things all compiled here, so next month Ill take a few days and bring a metal detector too

[@360def]

I also love history about ww1 and ww2 I would love to help you in research

[@tinostruckmann]

How are you at prying information out of the various archives around the world :-)

[@geraldmccarty8630]

Very interesting to think the decision's the activity that occurred at said site during wwll that affected world history my own family's history awesome

[@tinostruckmann]

That is excactly my point, I just wish those running the Maybach museum could see themselves actually trying to display their history not just deny it and be ... well what I found them to be. To much important history went through there, affected us all.

[@simonbroberg969]

Not much left, but there's less of the attack on Hamburg by the 700 boat raid by the Danes either. Same year they did Paris with just 125 boats (Ragnars visit).... They seem to forget too easily eh? (Both attacks 845 AD) I think that that the Gerbils fella destroyed all evidence that the Germans got attacked by Vikings to be honest. We still remember things though. By the way My Grandad was with the 79th Armoured Div, landed on Sword beach on D Day. Before that he was in North Africa, and was not sorry they didn't leave any German tanks that could be reused by anyone.

[@tinostruckmann]

Well when fighting them it historic preservation does take a backseat lol. Did your grand dad survive the war?

[@Astroptx]

I saw holes dug; much of the trash littering the ground must have come from metal detecting.

[@renehoude96]

At 54:23, it is something electronic using vacuum tube like in old radios.

[@tinostruckmann]

that makes sense- it was comm hub

[@jasoncasey7009]

You should give some bits as prizes on your show just to get people to get things from your trips

[@tinostruckmann]

I could do, as if my suitcase is not heavy enough lol

[@tiborfarkas1011]

Lucky find that magazine :D

[@tinostruckmann]

I know, I am sure there are much more there, but that it as just sitting there was rather cool

[@tiborfarkas1011]

@@tinostruckmann Ur an amazing person thank you for your great content , got glued , so very interesting , I'm sure you want to know the truth like all of us

[@moganet223]

mach weiter so

[@noahc6246]

I so want to go next time you go

[@tinostruckmann]

MAY!

[@nicwilson89]

I absolutely love the sections of you just wandering around, poking through a forest, having a bit of an adventure, etc. Just seeing what you can discover and learn from the remnants of the past now left. I also absolutely agree with your summarisation of why preserving things like this are important. No matter how painful the memories are. No whitewashing and trying to cover up history and disconnect yourself from it, that is exactly how you end up forgetting the lessons of the past and repeating the horrendous mistakes that people, many people, have died for and died fighting against in the past specifically so that we don't have to also live through it nowadays...and yet, people continue to try and hide the past. It's sad.

[@tinostruckmann]

That is one of the reasons I did this, but a historian cant take sides history must be told straight down the middle... And me walking through the forest looking for stuff... that I can film all day long , Just thought it would be boring for people to watch.

[@thekingsilverado9004]

Without my idiot humor this is an interesting enough video for historians. It is very very difficult to gain access to this area let alone have a camera inside that area. Where he found the double trenches is the MayBach II area also call Machchinot area. Tino walks ahead of his car and says here was a structure. That was the guard post later built in front of Maybach II structures. That deep square ditch was a hand dug bunker made mostly of earth and wood for whatever reason that particular area was a hot spot for many many years because it was used as a communications post as well the reasons he found those old 6 volt batteries. Nobody has yet to show a complete map of the entire area and the tunnel systems. Mostly because it is such large area and not all the information is there so there may never be a complete map of the whole thing. When I was there was 1988 just after I got home from Panama hurt. I went there on a vacation with a NY Times researcher Tom Butterman and yes that is his real name. He worked off the expense of the vacation doing research on this subject for local newspapers in my area as a fact checker as well as him being a Nam era veteran. With todays new politics fact checkers are obsolete as me and Tom currently R... That Maybach II area was literally littered up with communications posts and soldiers at all times. It may lend credibility they had nuclear weapons or capabilities in that area. Tino is correct they had many natural springs they harnesses and funneled water down to the under ground bunkers as well. The other thing Tino has not mentioned up until the point I watched the video, Tino has not comment has not mentioned is there are over a 2,000 locals buried in mass graves about that area possibly more than that as well as soldiers. They buried alotta guys just about where they were killed at. At the time I was there in the 80's the thing with the Berlin Wall was still going on and there was a bunch of Greek historians studying the area as well as Journalists from abroad that had connections like Tom had.

[@tinostruckmann]

I did not know about the mass graves, do you have more intel? I am going back in a month and going inside the old Maybach II bunkers this time.

[@thekingsilverado9004]

@@tinostruckmann I don't know much more than what I was told Tino. The reasons they keep it concealed is everyone was getting interested in opening mass graves and find dead loved ones and it's costs countries money and man power to oversee such things is the reasons it's concealed. The were over 20K German soldiers some where in there all buried and it was one massive event or dig there are several spots from several diff slaughters America included in the main shit storm that hit post 1944 It was at the end near the end of the war when America and france shelled the place that I know it's what my buddy Butterman wrote his article piece on was America shelling the interior zone somewhere a the beginings of 1945

[@saschakorner9317]

The russian dumped everything whats worthless for them there as they moved out...even guns, they put them in one place and drive with a tank over the pile and dumped them...

[@weeksey49]

Find some local relic hunters they are a wealth of information

[@tinostruckmann]

I know and I have and Im going back hehe

[@charlesangell_bulmtl]

I love dump souvenirs..

[@tinostruckmann]

right! Im glad Im not the only one yay

[@828enigma6]

Love to get in there with a medium side dozer or an excavator. Dig down, see whats in the bottom of these holes.

[@rayphillips332]

That's ashame that they don't want to remember the ones that fought for what they thought was right for their country it's almost like what happened to the Vietnam veterans went through.

[@tinostruckmann]

It is in deed, it is history like it or not. Just tell the stories and stop destroying the remains. It is important for people to see these and learn from history. Cover ups never does anybody any favors. Nor teaches any lessons.

[@vettemuziekjes]

it was much worse then what nam vet's went trough, and that was already bad.

[@bull614]

@@tinostruckmann those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[@tinostruckmann]

@@bull614 and here we are....

[@thekingsilverado9004]

Hey U missed that big Russian Samuri Sword!!! Never mind maybe it was an old fender from an old Plymouth

[@tinostruckmann]

LMAO not a Trabant lol

[@clearingbaffles]

At 28:03ish I think Bill has some left he kept them in a blue humidor

[@tinostruckmann]

EEH dont know where his cigars have been, Ill bring my own lol

[@martharash3987]

Slow down your camera spanning, you are making me dizzy. But I think you are doing a good job of investigation of WWII.

[@tinostruckmann]

At the site I had to cheat and use my phone because they lost my permission to film. On the throughway of the area my camera stabilizer was going ... Its fixed for next trip.

[@carolecarr5210]

Do they really drive on the right side of road? U looked like it.

[@tinostruckmann]

Well on a desolate forest road, I will drive where ever I want lol

[@johnnydee9631]

I wonder if the local folks appreciated your t shirt

[@tinostruckmann]

It has been mentioned.. lol

[@Kale050]

looks abit like the bunker of seyss-inquart in the netherlands, but seyss-inquart s bunker is 100% intact

[@Mcchrs]

Lucky you didnt find a land mine, hope they swept it !

[@tinostruckmann]

I did on my second trip:-)

[@dewachterdanny8269]

i love this sh....

[@tinostruckmann]

You can say it. lol me too, cant wait to get back - there is an update in my next QA

[@ihn]

Tino, we Germans are not glorying the war. And I do agree with you that an ordinary German soldier did full fill his duty as every other nation did. Unfortunately the history is written by the winners of the war and it is wrong in a lot of the details.

[@joseph-mariopelerin7028]

can't get enough of that shitt...

[@tinostruckmann]

Ill keep it coming

[@papaandlilbearsgarage1230]

Your doing what I have dreamed of since I was a child. My family all comes from Germany and one day I’ll be able to go and see the country of my loved ones. I think Germany don’t show anything that has to do with the war not because they are afraid. I think they are afraid of what other countries will think and maybe react to. They should honor their past soldiers who fought for their great country.

[@tinostruckmann]

Well come with when the tours start, Ill be planning those as soon as the logistics are in place.

[@mtnshooter2487]

Ist Zossen where the German sniper school is ?

[@tinostruckmann]

Oh there is a whole lot to that question, Let me put that in a QA for you.

[@callamediarok1470]

In Korea we don't have garbage collectors - just garbage selectors. Take anything interesting, leave the rest, hence the interest in your garbage inspection.

[@rickphoenix5638]

"Its an old plastic video like before I was born" your making this boomer feel old kiddo:-)

[@tinostruckmann]

Classic sorry I know how you feel I just have a great plastic surgeon lol

[@anonymousperson8487]

Thats funny, VHS tape before he was born. I guess he's never seen 8 track tape before.

[@tinostruckmann]

I saw one in a museum once - lmao - by the way I was being sarcastic, I grew up with VHS

[@anonymousperson8487]

@@tinostruckmann I grew up with 8 track and even remember purchasing my first Batamax.

[@sabahtaha1746]

most german tanks had maybach engines including the tiger 1 and 2

[@tinostruckmann]

that is why they named the complex Maybach in order to conceal the places real purpose

[@jimmyoconnor6569]

Um that wasn’t a AK magazine, that’s a STG-44 magazine, kalisnokov stole the AK design from Germany

[@tinostruckmann]

It had that metal groove protruding from the back, STG mags don't have that. OH I wish it was, but Im picking it up in Europe next month and we can take a closer look.

[@toddclem2989]

25:27 The cup, hahahaha. Not sure what unit this was, definitly Russian. 😂

[@alexanderackermans201]

Operatie paperclip. Look that up.

[@tinostruckmann]

Its coming no worries, just cant do it all at the same time lol

[@jonpatchett425]

I am really enjoying your searches and films, however I think it is very wrong of you to remove artifacts, even if they are as simple as a tin cup. On day, in the future, archaeologist may be allowed permission to to a proper search of this site and you may have removed a vital clue. Are you taking it to pass onto a local museum or for your own collection ??

[@tinostruckmann]

I don't quite think you grasp the situation at the forest - we are looking at a very large piece of property in where the Russians upon leaving dumped all their trash and everything they did not want. From old shows to apparently magazines. There are thousands or tons of waste there. And most of it will never be recovered and will simply rust and disintegrate there. None have any historic value or are sparse. Had it been a battlefield artifact that would have been a different matter. At least it is now safe, but as I cant drink from it I may gather a collection and give them to my friend and his museum out by Juterbug.

[@alanmoffat4454]

TAKE PREVIOUSLY USED RAIL ROUTES TOO BERLIN TRY THE BRITISH ONE AND SEE WHAT'S LEFT AT RAIL HEADS GOOD SIGHTS 👍.

[@tinostruckmann]

Thanks for the tip!

[@blakegoulds8313]

If you hadn't worn the American flag shirt, you might have gotten better treatment from the staff. They are very touchy about Nationalism. Should've worn a PBS shirt! Lol

[@tinostruckmann]

You are right, I need to go back and remind them who won the war anyway lol. Yes nice they certainly were not.

[@Bryan-cs9to]

Sad the forest is that littered

[@tinostruckmann]

Yes on one hand they absolutely left a mess behind but on the other hand there's a really interesting things and it makes for great exploring and eventually it will all decomposed anyway

[@Svekkus]

The destruction was to prevent treasure hunters to find and sell the nazi iconofraphy and other stuff as relics, not to dishonor the soldiers that fought in the war

[@tinostruckmann]

Well actually the Allies and Russians made an agreement to destroy any German instillation that could be used by Germans in the future.

[@tuzonthume]

04:24 palm trees?

[@tinostruckmann]

Not in that weather lol, I do think it may be one of the fake trees they built around their secret bunker installations, some of which they suspended netting from. take a look at the episode from Wolfslair.

[@tuzonthume]

@@tinostruckmann then I heard that Germany once (pre war) owned 80+% of coconut palms worldwide?

[@okofumiko83]

Bro, I feel like if I remember the VHS protective cases there’s not way they were before you were born. You’re like 40

[@tinostruckmann]

Vhs was invented in 1976 and the Russians pulled out in around 92 plenty of time to throw video cassettes around LOL