Project Riese: Uncovering the Nazis' Hidden Bunkers and Lost Treasures

[@decodingtheunknown2373]

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[@hurtfixer_]

Must be Hot in there with the fan blowing under you desk,,,

[@JosephThomas-t3n]

Didn't you just do a military budget video . Not sure about you but 2+2 = I know where it went ...

[@gshaindrich]

so is there any excuse for neither trying to correctly pronounce german words nor even apologising for butchering them? Is it so hard to read that the spelling is RIESE instead of REIS? the german reis = engl. rice and sounds equal too, but "ie" is pronounced like "i" which sounds similiar to engl. "ee" or also in the i in english words like ill, illiterate, industry, etc. ... just to lazy to even make a tiny effort

[@shanbannan17]

the fact that they wont dig or allow anyone else is sus as hell i bet they know its down there in the tunnels... or they have a way in all ready and use that gold for them self

[@csmith63]

Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall at the KZbinr ad meetings. Now let's see, lawyers always working, Hello Fresh, Mr. Ballen has a swinging pair, Sheath...Incogni works for a casual criminalist decoding the unknown, but usually we talk identity protections for identity theft stealing $ (ad brains thinking what that will look like, starting with how little $ Simon says he has)FAMILY! Incogni will protect your family on Simon's channels...

[@hootie413982]

"It is human to make a mistake but it's foolish to stand by it." What a great way to sum up American politics.

[@moshonn9318]

You can drop the 'American' from that sentence

[@JeeVeeHaych]

When Danny mentioned "tunneling like little nazi moles", I couldn't help but picture a bunch of little mustachioed moles in green uniforms and matching construction hats, standing in a tunnel and yelling at each other in German

[@kymaeryk]

That was like the thing in New York

[@mebreevee]

@@kymaerykDid they ever figure out WHY they did that?

[@kymaeryk]

@@mebreevee the New York tunnel Jews. From their perspective they felt they had right to the land and were trying to hasten the expansion of the synagogue. I think there was some archaic law about land ownership being to a certain depth but I am not certain if it was a rabbit car law or New York archaic

[@mebreevee]

@@kymaeryk I knew there were Jewish people tunneling below NY, just not the reason. I appreciate the explanation!

[@erardbowdragon5475]

I think the worst sort of metal object you could find would be a land mine.

[@EmeraldCityVideo]

Good call. Since this had “Nazi” in the title, I thought maybe the allusion was to skulls with fillings.

[@Cellaghney]

@@erardbowdragon5475 worse - two land mines.

[@HyBr1dRaNg3r]

I was thinking either fillings, or copper from jacketed bullets😕finding a mass grave would be traumatizing I’d think

[@dramoth64]

@@Cellaghney Bouncing Betty's. Anti-personal mines that launch out of the ground and explode in a cloud of ball bearings.

[@EpsilonUnitGaming]

A sign that reads, “If you can read this, you are now an unwilling participant in the mega Ebola test that is currently ongoing.”

[@ichmeiner4531]

I live near the German - French border. Pretty much every hill in my town (and similar in others in the area) has tunnels from that time. Houses on those hills usually have access to those tunnels in the basement (at least the older houses). Some tunnels have a bit of rudimentary stuff like electricity, lights (if someone bothers to change the bulbs) and ancient telephone lines, but most are just bare tunnels. Except for a couple of rooms, the tunnels are maybe 2m tall and wide enough for 2 people walking comfortably side by side. If used, mostly they're forgotten or boarded up, it's for storage and I attended some awesome parties down there in the early 2000's.

[@Jash0192]

Some of the echos that come from them whilst being in the house at night must be creepy!

[@ichmeiner4531]

@@Jash0192 I never lived in one of those houses, but I knew a couple of people who did (in different houses). All entrances I've seen are in the furthest corner of the basements. All entrances had doors and the basements as well. So no way of noises getting in the hallways or even apartments. On the other hand, we were down there quite often (maybe 2 or 3 times a month) for a good year - that's when most of the friend group lived in houses connected to the tunnels simultaneously. Mostly we were down there on weekends partying in one of the bigger rooms that we ran an extension cord to, great times. But once in a while, we went exploring in small groups and the echoes from other people, although you know it's just the other groups, are chilling. Especially if the sounds seem to come from a part of the tunnels that you know no one's in. Sound travels really weird there. Fortunately, those tunnels aren't that deep/long, so even if you panic, it's never very far to the next basement. All in all, they're not in use much today. At the end of WW2 they were great bomb shelters, from then on it's storage and parties.

[@HaYlEeXx19]

That sounds 🔥 lit. From a party perspective and a history nerds perspective.

[@1989TaylorsVersiom]

​@@HaYlEeXx19fr 💯💯💯

[@1989TaylorsVersiom]

​@@HaYlEeXx19when I read this it made me instantly think of the '90s rave parties in the abandoned warehouses. My sister is 14 years older than me so that was her era.

[@WernerKaffl]

Physics around metal detectors (especially active metal detectors): Any electrically conducting material, through which one runs a current, emits an electromagnetic field around itself. This also works the other way around. Any magnetic field moving over/around an electric conductor, will induce electric current within said electrically conducting material. This material doesn't even need to be metal, just electrically conducting (yes there are ceramica and plastics which do that). So a metal detector worls like follows: Metal detector emits electromagnetic field, induces current within a conductor somewhere in the ground, this current in turn emits an electromagnetic field around itself, which will be picked up by the metal detector. Depending on the quality of that detector, it can pick up any type of conductor in a certain range. If it's a really good one, it can even allow you an educated guess about the actual material it found, because different materials will give different feedbacks. in a nutshell, it's called "metal detector". Gold is a metal! Metal meaning conductive metals, not merely iron based stuff. So yes, it will pick up gold, copper, brass, iron, steel, aluminium, and a variety of non-metallic electric conductors. However, it would not pick up a metal like Tungsten, because Tungsten isn't electrically conductive in standard conditions ;-)

[@wesleythomas7125]

Huh. Thanks for the science lesson! 👍

[@magnemoe1]

Had no idea Tungsten was not conductive.

[@WernerKaffl]

@@magnemoe1 It's an exception. By itself it's conducting at high temparatures but it's a bad conductor at low temps. Tungsten combined with steel can lean in both directions, depending on composition. Some stainless steels are bad conductors too, some even have bad magnetic properties,

[@garyschlagheck603]

Wow, watch the video and look in the comments. This is awesome.😊

[@gordwrath6811]

Hey, Simon. Metal detectoist here. The scariest thing we can find, are unexploded ordinances, and land mines. Just an FYI.

[@Proudmadarastan]

This implies land mines are in their own league above unexploded ordinances if their listed seperately

[@gordwrath6811]

@@Proudmadarastan land mines are generally hermetically sealed (to prevent water from getting in)

[@moshonn9318]

@@Proudmadarastan Technically, both are unexploded munitions, but landsmines have this habit of not decaying or at least not as much, while the detonators of old dud bombs and artillery granates are often corroded away. This essentially can have two outcomes: The lucky outcome is the bomb is inert, as the thing that was supposed to make it go boom has corroded out of existence or at least to the point that it doesn't function anymore. Without a detonator, most modern-ish explosives are pretty stable and relatively save to handle. The worse outcome is that the detonator is in a state that makes it so unstable that a light tap or minimal jolt can trigger the bomb and everything in a certain radius gets blown to pieces. For, say, an old handgranate, that's still bad, but manageable. For some of the larger artillery shells still buried in the dirt of the former Western Front of WWI in Eastern France, the so-called 'Zone Rouge' (Red Zone) or beneath the ground of many German cities curtesy of the Allied bombing campaign, that can mean everything in a radius of several hundred meters or more needs be evacuated. The Zone Rouge is estimated to have so many unexploded granates that it will need another 700 years (yes, even after factoring in the 100 years already passed since WWI) to clean all of it up.

[@anna9072]

What’s the worst you could find? Go metal detectoring in the wrong place and you could find little toys like unexploded mines or bombs. It’s actually not that uncommon.

[@wavygravy63]

Especially in Europe. There are potentially thousands of unexploded ordnance

[@tomhenry897]

Locals that don’t like you on their property

[@Borsuk3344]

@@wavygravy63 Milions.

[@smolmoru]

not the peenemünde forest, one of the nazis biggest military laboratory areas being a no-go zone because they just had to litter the place with landmines. btw I distinctly remember my grandparents having fake grenades at home. they had the shape, the weight and even the little thingy you pull out to trigger them to go off, but no explosive inside. my grandparents were sports teachers in GDR times and they told me those were used for long throw practices instead of weighted balls. I mean I know the cold war was going on and all, but making kids as young as 10 years throw fake grenades sounds wild. I also don't know why they let my big sister and me play with those so nonchalantly.

[@PuppetWithPerception]

Finally, I’m now up to date with DTU and CC having constantly listened to both podcasts. As a result of this incessant listening, my inner monologue now sounds like Simon.

[@Dzonnyg]

I live in the exact area between Wałbrzych and Wrocław and after visiting most of the mentioned locations(they are some of the most interesting tourist attractions in the area) I can say for sure that I can absolutely believe there can still be a shitload of hidden stuff in there. I wouldn't even be suprised if there were still parts of the tunnels or even separate systems that we don't know of.

[@snarklar]

I met a guy who was dealing in antique firearms, bought a couple from him. So he grew up in France right after WW2, in the resistance. As a kid they'd dig into abandoned/ collapsed German trenches and bunkers and salvage everything. Tldr he found some really interesting things and had some great stories. He had also become a successful, fairly famous artist here in the US. I wish I'd kept in touch with him. Really interesting person, had some of the best conversations with him.

[@SkunkApe407]

Simon:"A time traveling, magical bell" Me: "What did you say about Dr. Who?"

[@PositiveOnly-dm3rx]

He said bell, not bellend. Jk, I love Dr who.

[@WesSparks]

I relate to Simon with the leg bouncing.

[@odyx0]

Just wanna say shout out to Danny. You are a champion mate. I love your episodes

[@VortexTraveller]

Simon: "what kind of metal are you going to find that you're like "Oh no, this is terrible news?" Me: An unexploded bomb?

[@Cellaghney]

@VortexTraveller That stuff he mentioned in that other video, that's so radioactive it says 'drop and run' on it?

[@mudpie6927]

A damaged loaded gun

[@wesleythomas7125]

​@@mudpie6927 I'd call that a treasure.

[@itarry4]

Who says it'd just be metal either. Your detector could detect the metal in someone's cloths or shoes and you could find yourself digging up a mass grave of the many people who died digging the tunnels.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

3:05 - Mid roll ads 4:15 - Back to the video 5:40 - Chapter 1 - Going underground 23:25 - Chapter 2 - The distant echo of faraway voices 52:05 - Chapter 3 - "A" bomb in walbrzych street 1:13:55 - Chapter 4 - Walls come tumbling down

[@MindtheTwill99]

Did Weller write this episode 🙂

[@Clyde-S-Wilcox]

Thst clearly is the shield generator bunker from Return of the Jedi.

[@paulbliss835]

Vvhvvh h u 7 nuuun. Joder

[@jameskelly7782]

....after the assault.

[@Nick-v7b3l]

I mean, Lucas has said the Empires uniforms are modeled after the Nazis. Wouldn't be surprised if it was inspired after their bases, too.

[@jameskelly7782]

@@Nick-v7b3l 👍 agreed.

[@doobiejones9388]

IKR 😏

[@ItsHyomoto]

Simon had a video about treasures found recently and what I learned from that video is that treasure hunting is bullshit. You find a treasure and two things are likely to happen: your business partner tries to screw you over (or you do it first), or someone sues you claiming that it's theirs and you don't have a legitimate claim. In this case, if you honestly found Nazi gold, the claims to those riches are going to *flood* in since literally *all* of it was stolen. You want to do it for altruistic reasons, good on you, but if you think you'll walk away with the stolen Nazi riches you better also be damn good at keeping it secret.

[@Cellaghney]

@ItsHyomoto could be tricky with those swastikas on it, I think even the local pawn shop might balk at that...

[@andrewmathias1967]

You melt it down

[@WernerKaffl]

There's a third thing too. Your government might also lay claim to a find, so may museums etc.

[@Cellaghney]

@@WernerKaffl I know in the UK you usually get a finders fee of some sort

[@Cellaghney]

@@andrewmathias1967 done this before? 😆

[@Berathan-dnd]

What could be more disappointing than nothing? Land mines?

[@PositiveOnly-dm3rx]

Or if you watch 'fascinating horror' I would say cesium... lol

[@mwolkove]

The fact that speer had a chance to write his memoirs absolutely enrages me.

[@BullFrogFace]

Unfortunately both Nazi and Japanese scientist, higherups and all manner of monsters not only survived but we're actively brought to the US to live easy comfy lives under governmental employ

[@Ryan-li8qc]

I think everybody should write a story about their life, it would be very interesting.

[@Borsuk3344]

@@Ryan-li8qc I think he meant that speer should not have been given the time on earth to do that.

[@Ryan-li8qc]

@Borsuk3344 maybe not, but I think the more writings of people whoever they are the better, from that we can find out what people thought at the time from different places and it's possible to figure out what happened by drawing lines between different people.

[@frankiemillcarek6976]

​@@Ryan-li8qc yeaaaaah, we already know enough about what his ilk thought that we *don't* really need more memoirs filled with lies.

[@jays.6843]

The goddamned Nazi bell was made up by a Polish author for a fiction book. I swear, my blood pressure goes up every time I hear someone try to talk about how the Nazis were so good at science that they made a magic flying saucer.

[@motorsr20]

They were so good that they won the war. Oh wait.....

[@14prescott]

It's all true,they're now living on the moon after flying there from the north pole!

[@Ryan-li8qc]

​@motorsr20 you could be the most advanced civilization alive, but if you have a overwhelming force come at you, you'll be taken down tech or not.

[@motorsr20]

@Ryan-li8qc 100s of years more advanced, doubtful, we still do not have antigravity tech of that scale.

[@jonatanrullman]

We don't need to get that fancy. They were so good at science that they invented the ballistic missile. Just because it seems ordinary for us today doesn't mean it wasn't an incredible feat at the time.

[@hawkshot867]

The gold is one thing... But the Nazis stole literal tons of art and cultural relics that are invaluable. Much of it was never found... Either lost in transit or destroyed.

[@KS-PNW]

Or in swiss vaults/ private collections

[@michaelcleary7065]

New dtu for a Friday evening 😄 cheers factboi and Danny! Great job lads 👍

[@robertwalker-smith2739]

The Germans looted fine art from the occupied countries, partially because Hitler was going to have a museum built in Linz (his birthplace) that would make it the art capital of Europe. The book, "Monuments Men", by Bret Witter and Robert Edsel, has background on this.

[@tubensalat1453]

Hitler was born in Braunau, not Linz; although it's kinda close. Think I heard he cordoned off his birthplace so no-one could snoop around in his past.

[@Cellaghney]

@tubensalat1453 yep, but moved to Linz around ten or so, certainly by high school he was living in Linz

[@turtleboy4111]

Awesome episode. Thanks again, Simon and Team. You guys are the best😊

[@brent1268]

DTU: Some random Nazi-related mystery I've never heard of KZbin: THE HOLOCAUST

[@handlemybalz]

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.

[@shinkicker404]

I’ve noticed that. Even with videos that don’t even touch the Holocaust just mentioning WW2 in Germany is often enough to get the label/article slapped on. More than the Holocaust happened in WW2 YT, lol.

[@ladygrndr9424]

To be fair, this does directly touch on a considerable topic of the Holocaust--the use of slave labor for the major Nazi works where they were perfectly fine with working their prisoners to death.

[@kempoficht]

Well, most of the work had been done by forced labour from multipal camps including gross-roßen

[@Cellaghney]

@@ladygrndr9424 not to mention where the gold and treasures had in most part come from in this case

[@brew_guy8947]

1 hour 19 minutes of facts and tangents. Heaven. 😁

[@HoundMonkey]

Better than a movie

[@SnappyJCM800]

Actually salt mines are a pretty good place to keep paintings and they did keep stolen goods in them

[@gordonlawrence1448]

Metal detectors have an alternating magnetic field. That in turn makes any piece of metal close enough an electromagnet. This in turn affects the current in the detectors loop, and the change causes the beep etc.

[@jasonhare8540]

In Chattanooga Tennessee in a non-protected portion of the battlefield I found a cannonball . Rather I found what was left of the cannonball but still . A dime a dozen around here after the American civil war but still exciting .

[@keefymckeefface8330]

totally get that. :) i got an English civil war cannon ball from one the battles of Worcester (4 centuries on- it was in my garden growing up, Victorians built houses on parts the site) I use it as paperweight...

[@maxwirt921]

If you need to find a train, hire Ewan McGregor. He’s good at Trainspotting. 😂

[@josefstrauss9017]

Underrated comment ☝🏼

[@razorlicks7929]

Only a couple of minutes in but there seems to be a lot of vibrating under the table in this one 😮

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

That man LOVES to bounce his feet. Lol

[@jamesfriel4998]

nervous tick, drugs, tiny localised earthquake limited to his foot, NAZIS!? You decide.

[@wavygravy63]

I noticed that as well. 😊 Haven’t seen Simon twitching that much in a long time

[@turtleboy4111]

Wrestless leg syndrome. He's probably been sitting recording for a couple of hours, at least. Then again, underlying ADHD tendencies could also be at play too.

[@dark_baphomet]

😂

[@smithandshortdogs]

A time machine that lets you keep fighting the same battle over and seems like a great movie idea. Maybe starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt and Bill Paxton.

[@willmfrank]

Well...Mr. Paxton has passed on, so we'd need a time machine to get him on board...

[@fredblonder7850]

That movie has already been made: Groundhog Day.

[@smithandshortdogs]

@@fredblonder7850 . .. Edge of Tomorrow (aka live die repeat).

[@GastelEtswane]

Tunnels under the old GCHQ complex was a common urban myth before the doughnut was made. There were however air raid bunkers under part of the Arle Court nearby and thieves did use the pedestrian tunnel under the bypass to steal two jags from the Dowty group head office.

[@mariz2361]

Bit too much 'coffee' before filming this one eh...??? That leg won't stop!!!

[@angelitabecerra]

Simon is well known for shaking his leg as he gets antsy sitting and making videos all day everyday

[@justinwright7469]

God I love Simon’s random comments and tangents he goes on

[@serenetiv]

hearing simon trying to pronounce german is always kinda funny xD

[@janepearce5382]

The English ones are equally funny :)

[@kl6960]

not as funny as his version of Polish...

[@fkcz76_whisperer]

@kl6960 I play a fun game of "what the heck was that Polish place/ name/ word meant to be??" and wait to see if my brain works it out eventually lol. Sometimes does, sometimes I'm stumped by what Simon tries to say lol 😂

[@splashfart]

"project reese" "...he's going to mispronounce REEZ-eh this whole episode isn't he"

[@serenetiv]

@@splashfart yeah.. so much reis/rice in this one xD

[@Whovian519]

32:14 it really does amaze me how naive simon is after everything he's read

[@MrMauser33]

"Riese" is pronounced more like "Ries-eh". As a rule of thumb, german pronounces "e" at the end of words as "-eh"

[@carminia824]

The tunnels in the Jonastal, Thuringia, might also be worth a video.

[@JolieSaboteuse]

Danny sneaks as many Paul Weller references past Simon as he possibly can.

[@paulbrecken2136]

I loved the Down in the tube station at midnight one. So good.

[@oceanstaiga5928]

My grandma fled as a young child from former German territory into todays German territory and she told me they buried valuables in their yards to come back to. Mind you this was 1945 and somehow the German citizens were left under the impression they would come back in not too far of the future. So I wouldn’t be surprised if the lower rank military personnel would assume the same and hurriedly hide arguably more valuable stuff that my grandma and her family pictures and such.

[@dektarey4024]

Its "Projekt Riese" or "Project Giant" in English.

[@chance_in_the_chat]

I hear there's always a good game of 'Hide and Seek' to be played at Der Riese...

[@sergei_bombastic]

That will definitely elevate your senses

[@buddyzilla4557]

2:32 - I'm pretty sure you did a video on one of these befkee actually simon. It wasnt a bunker but there were several instances of impriperly discoved of radiotactive material from power plants and old millitant projects unretrieved, that fwll into the hands of unfortunate and unknowing civilians who stumbled across them. Its a tragic situation when it occurs and the number of recognized lost/unretrieved radioactive sources is concerning.. especially sinxe there are likly more not disclosed as well.

[@joelellis7035]

Simon, gold is a conducting metal. All conducting metals can have electric currents induced into them by changing magnetic fields. Metal detectors detect metals by magnetically inducing currents into metals then detecting the magnetic eddies created as that induced current dissipates.

[@1whitkat]

Having grown up in the U.S. western states, I'm used to trains that are able to scale mountains and plow through literal yards of snow. So I have to admit, I was amused by the British railway system. I know this is a little off topic, but it wouldn't surprise me if a British train just wandered off and got lost.

[@itsdan722]

Impossible. Our trains don't even show up let alone be able to wander off 😅

[@Charles-js3ri]

DTU idea. Where did all of Von Ribbentrops gold go? There was a lot of it and supposedly it's in an alpine lake.

[@buddyzilla4557]

"Old Timmey" marbles contian lead. Its what gives them their weight, durability and sheen. Solid glass marbles will chip and shatter easily as well as be lighter, thus harder to control when playing. The old style marbles used lead to solve this. It's also why they tend to be no longer allowed anymore as well. You can imagine this being a bit of a liabilty health hazard, especially around children (aside from the choking possibility) so it can be a bit difficult to aquire them these days. You can potentially get marbles still at places like the dollar store but they are made different. Im not sure what they replaced the lead with but ill guess its some kind of binder since they are still durable but dont have the same weight or lusterous sheen. They feel a lot more like little glass balls whoch makes them difficult to play the gane with but I suppose its not anywhere near the popularity they once were anyway. I know there were heavy glass pokemon marbles around in the 90s that were official pokemon themed. They were big semi translucent and some had an opaque oilslick sheen. No idea if they had lead but aside from being bigger than normal marbles, may be a good bet for getting something close in feel. Despite being vintage collectables, they were not super poppular and tons of them wound up in discount stores like biglots. If you look on the goodwill website or ebay you can often gind whole bags for fairly afforable prices all things considered. They would come in one of several random colors with the opaque being the one less common. They also came with one of the 151 pikemon randomly stamped on so you had a plethera of combinations to collect. A shitload in fact. Too much. It didnt help some were also much more common with no real rhym or reason. Form about 4 dollar packs my brother and j must have had three Mews and two Charizards but not a single Ivysaur or Magikarp. This means "complete" sets or rare print listings will be jacked up in price, but if you find one of common multiples, you can usually get away with a low cost.

[@Makumbi]

Why. The. Hell. Is. His. Jacket. SHAKING 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@rolkflameraven1483]

He is bouncing his leg and part of the jacket is on his thigh. So as his leg goes up and down, it shakes that part of his jacket. At lest that would be my guess.

[@Makumbi]

@@rolkflameraven1483 it's extremely annoying.

[@crazilyrandom97]

​@@rolkflameraven1483that's what I was gunna say I do it all the time

[@Cellaghney]

Dammit I can't stop noticing it now!

[@willmfrank]

Take a close look at some of his other videos; it's not as extreme in them as it is in this one, but it's there -- you can see one shoulder wibbling, or the tablet in his hand bippity-bopping, or whatever. At first I took it for vibrations from the seemingly-perpetual construction that's been going on next door for years, or maybe an earthquake... But seriously...rolkflameraven1483's explanation is almost certainly correct. The leg bounce is a common nervous habit for on-camera presenters.

[@scooby45247]

2:22 : like the ring you detected happens to be attached to a body in a shallow grave..

[@LokiBJH]

My mind went directly to mines and UXO/ UXP.

[@scooby45247]

@@LokiBJH another excellent answer..

[@BeauFunk-s1s]

So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.

[@justinaclayburn2248]

56:33 years and years ago I got a call from my dad and he says “you won’t believe this movie I just watched on Netflix” and I replied “you didn’t watch that stupid Nazis on the moon movie, did you?” And sure enough he had.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

I’m still amazed anyone paid to have that thing made, I’ve never seen a movie go that downhill, that fast, perhaps ever. And just when you think it can’t go any lower, they double down on it. That being said, it’s gloriously stupid. I’m pretty sure they have sequels to it as well.

[@batmanpancake96]

Best Friday EVER ❤❤❤❤

[@ianchamberlain6028]

Danny is my favorite writer out the bunch

[@ExperimentIV]

of course danny likes the style council!

[@daftirishmarej1827]

"Hitler Henge" had me howling! At midnight. I hope my neighbours are friendly and forgiving. Thanks so much Matt! X

[@SkunkApe407]

Midnight? You're an hour ahead of the US East Coast. Are you stuck out there on Canada's frozen nipple?

[@daftirishmarej1827]

@@SkunkApe407 No. UK. Definitely not a frozen nipple this year, nor roasting like the South of Europe

[@SkunkApe407]

@@daftirishmarej1827 lol, lucky you. I'm in Florida. It has been pushing 100°F (38°C) for a dew weeks. Between the heat and humidity, I have moss on my bum.😅

[@coltringcoltring7448]

​@@SkunkApe407 you'll be surprised how hot it is this summer . Least hottest days was 27 degrees celcius 😂 . Climate changes are real

[@SkunkApe407]

@@coltringcoltring7448 that's roughly 80°F. That sounds so nice, after weeks pushing 100°F(38°C). I remember, close to 40 years ago, that we Floridians would wear sweatshirts in the mornings, during the summer months, because it was 65°F at sunrise, and 90°F by 10am. Now it stays in the upper 70's overnight, and is at 90°F by 8am. I've seen native plants retreat farther north because climate has shifted, like the American fig. I used to walk through the woods as a kid, gathering wild figs and wild blackberries, for momma to make jam. Now I have to drive to the northernmost bounds of the state to find fig trees. Climate change is most definitely real.

[@ednac1626]

the background with the violins lightly playing is beautiful, can you make it slightly louder on the next one?

[@RoseJ1983]

LAST COMMENT: fascinating story and amazingly written by of course, Danny, one of his best writers in my opinion! This is why I posted too many rambling comments that I apologize for but won’t remove because badly written and often pointless I still stand by them! I wouldn’t read them if you value your free time because they be looooong! Good luck! Fantastic work Danny and Simon, I loved it! Thumbs up always!!!

[@kempoficht]

I vistited about 3 of the locations (the parta they uncoverd) its absolutely insane and inpressive but also quite sad knowing howmany people had to work it forced with nothing more then a few pickaxes

[@decker528]

Im not sure calling what the Red Army did "liberation" would be quite accurate

[@thunderheadrev]

Clicking for the "uploaded 37 seconds ago" notif I got XD see ya in an hour and 20 mins!

[@tenhirankei]

@56:00 Wouldn't that allow the soldiers (that aren't panicking) the ability to fire down upon any targets within range of their weapons?

[@Intabih]

Almost got me with the "funny, beepy stick."

[@michaelkeller5555]

6:33 - my husband was not expecting to overhear that 😂 neither was I to be fair

[@geoffgthomas4124]

Did Simon pick up on the references to The Jam's iconic song, "Going Underground?"

[@RoseJ1983]

No thank you, the 1970’s is not far enough removed from the 1940’s to be doing anything the polish guy was doing or even saying! A miracle only his dogs were killed and he wasn’t, that we are aware of. How’d he die?

[@michalanckoronski2673]

There are so much stories about Nazi partisants after WW II guarding Owl Mountain forests (they were called Werwolf) and even more stories of regular germans coming back and searching on their own. I live in Lower Silesia area and i find it super interesting., so much more to tell.

[@GrievousReborn]

Pretty sure the name of this project is what inspired the World at War Nazi Zombie map Der Riese the Hitler Stonehenge thing is on that zombies map and the character Tank Dempsey mentions Die Glocke on that map in one of his quotes.

[@eateddie1995]

Hitler to scientists: "Make me an anti-gravity time machine capable of wiping out entire battlefields of enemies, you have less than six months!" Scientists, fearing death: "Uhh, sure, whatever you say Hitler." *Nazis lose the war* People now: "OMG They were making an anti-gravity time machine capable of wiping out entire battlefields of enemies, it's a crazy cover up they must have been so advanced!"

[@criskity]

I think Ksiaz is pronounced like the French word "change" preceded by a K.

[@Chrispydotbe]

Do you need a wee? Your leg wag wagging all the way through this 😂 Good stuff carry on.

[@Yamasutra]

33:08 holy shit Danny, this fucking killed me, thank you, laughing my ass off for the past 10 minutes hahahaha

[@DatAsuna]

I do enjoy how often these videos are just an hour long session of slowly working our way to "Some conspiracy theorists read a fiction book and thought it was non-fiction"

[@cyberfutur5000]

I start to think "Sie Glocke" was a tunnel digging machine.

[@justafriend5361]

If anyone interested in that fact: Gneiss is damascene granite. It forms when Schiefer (the fracing gas holding blackboard stone) gets crushed under immense force for millenias.

[@Cellaghney]

Late August 2024 is probably one of the few times Superyacht fell off my list of wants...

[@fkcz76_whisperer]

I assume Simon filmed this way before the recent super yacht tragedy near Sicily, the Bayesian, or he might well have commented on it. I believe they're usually filmed weeks ahead.

[@Cellaghney]

@@fkcz76_whisperer still terrible bad luck...

[@EratoTiaTuatha]

the real golden train was the times we heard Simon try and say polish words along the way

[@tamarinmangold1414]

As well as his attempt at German! 🤦🏻‍♀️🙈

[@TheJefers123]

The thumbnail reminds me of the building from the show dark on Netflix

[@jerichohill487]

Would love to hear your take on cold war era POMCUS (Positioned Outside Military Controlled United States) weapon/equipment cases across Europe

[@tomdunn3914]

I think a good non-invasive way of discovering the tunnels' contents would be to apply heat and then see if you can smell what the rock is cooking

[@ZombieDeeZilla]

Ah I see Danny has watched Detectorists, very cultured. Don't dig up bombs? Don't detonate bombs!

[@MCsCreations]

Wait just a second... Did you say tomato soup? I'm going to look for the recipe...

[@augiegirl1]

39:24 That’s like the last scene of the movie “National Treasure”: Riley: I have to settle with 1%. One stinkin' percent. Half of one percent, actually. [he jumps into a Ferrari 360 Spider] 55:57 Simon has said that he’s a Star Trek: TNG fan, but when he said that, I couldn't help but think of Star Trek 6 & the gravity being disabled during the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon.

[@joannecormierable]

Someone had a bit of caffeine today...that or your legs were super jumpy 😂

[@angelitabecerra]

He's well known for shaking his leg as he gets antsy sitting for long hours making videos all day everyday

[@LilBearZen]

I grew up on bases on stuttgart Germany, when we’d play in the woods, both on and off base, we’d find bunkers. Big concrete blocks, a lot of times sealed off with big blocks, but a lot of the time it was just the big metal doors and huge barred locks on them. Sometimes they were obvious, like pillboxes, sometimes they were just like manhole covers in the middle of the woods, with who knows what underneath. The bases we’d live on were mostly old nazi bases, some of the housing had panzer garages under them, huuuuuuge warehouse plots dug out underground, one of the bases was even named Panzer. I’d always think Urban explorers with some cutting gear could probably find a bunch of stuff that hasn’t been touched in the last 70 years if they just wander around the woods in Germany for long enough.

[@joshuaentwistle960]

Someone isolate Simon gleefully exclaiming, "Genocide!"

[@willmfrank]

Oh, I have no doubt that it's gonna show up as an insert in a LOT of future Whistlerverse videos.

[@canedust]

perfect cutaway for dogs appearing on-screen

[@craigsewell8692]

Iron sky was a fun movie Simon. Now the second one…oof, lizard people.

[@HardcoreGamerAus]

What is the worst thing you’ll find? “Surely disappointment”? Simon, landline is the answer!

[@fallingdream]

"like what sort of metal are you gonna find that you're like OH NO" UXO

[@halfatheory]

over here jiggling my leg while listening to simon read, while also jiggling his leg. kinship.

[@ddelv1601]

Speaking of leaves causing problems with train tracks. We might be late to the party, but Amtrack in the northeast US started using laser track cleaners last year.

[@daisygrand2431]

Why is Danny trying to sneak The Jam references into this video? Ahahaha

[@D.H.-mg2cz]

When you visit Germany I highly recommend to visit the museum Wewelsburg near Paderborn. Lots of information on the pretty esoteric flim flam approach the Nazis (especially Himmler) had to some topics.

[@sammorgan31]

Metal detectors work via inductance. They measure the inductance of a coil in the head. It increases when near conductive materials.

[@BringNightmares]

I never knew Simon was also a member of the knee jerkin' club, welcome brother =D

[@VormirBlas]

Metal detectors actually fluctuate the field at frequencies. When that field comes near a metal, it has an induced current from that fluctuation which generates an electromagnetic field which then interferes with the detector’s field. This interference in the field is what the detector is actually responding to.

[@MaxiTB]

It's Riese not Ries, there is no silent e in German, that's a French thing. And yes, Riese and Ries are two completely different words as well. So there's that.

[@SkunkApe407]

I'm far more familiar with the Brazilian pronunciation of the name, but isn't Ries pronounced with a hard "H"? As far as I know, it's "Hies".

[@ajar1900]

I'm glad I was not the only one confused by Simon's pronouncing Riese so wrong 😂

[@MaxiTB]

Ries (nom) is a Papierzählmaß (paper unit), similar to the English ream.

[@bellasmom2597]

I will be your mechanic when you get your super yacht.

[@samgraham4608]

Guessing marbles could be detected due to old lead glass or metal flexs?

[@andrewdineen9779]

This documentary about group 935s secrets is great! The answer to everything is element 115.