German BUNKERS & Coastal Defences - INSIDE: Marinepeilstanden L’Angle MP4 Atlantic Wall - WW2 1942

One of the most Famous WW2 German Bunkers ever built ! - We go deep inside and explore what it was like inside - the huge reinforced concrete fortress. ( Read more Below)
Marinepeilstanden - L’Angle MP4 Naval (Kriegsmarine) Range & Direction Bunker
Clips from recent film trip to Guernsey July 2018 for research and mapping the area & details maps in the making of our film we are producing.
A bit of History of what Happened:
Early in June 1940 The Germans did not realise that the islands had been demilitarised and they approached them with caution.
Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Luftwaffe Reconnaissance flights were inconclusive !
On 28th June 1940, they sent a squadron of Junkers Ju 87 Luftwaffe bombers over the islands and bombed the harbours of Guernsey and Jersey.
In St. Peter Port, the main town of Guernsey, had some lorries lined up to loaded with tomatoes for export to England and were mistaken by the reconnaissance flights for troop carriers.
A similar attack occurred in Jersey where 9 died.
In total, 44 islanders were killed in the raids.
The BBC broadcast a belated message that the islands had been declared "open towns" and later in the day reported the German bombing of the island.
While the Wehrmacht was preparing Operation Grünpfeil (Green Arrow), a planned invasion of the islands with assault troops comprising 2 battalions, a reconnaissance pilot, Hauptmann Liebe-Pieteritz, made a test landing at Guernsey's deserted airfield on 30th June 1940 to determine the level of defence.
He reported his brief landing to Luftflotte which came to the decision that the islands were not defended at all !
30th June 1940
A platoon of Luftwaffe airmen was flown that evening to Guernsey by Junkers transport planes. ( Junkers Ju 52 )
Inspector Sculpher of the Guernsey police went to the airport carrying a letter signed by the bailiff stating that "This Island has been declared an Open Island by His Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom.
There are no armed forces of any description. The bearer has been instructed to hand this communication to you. He does not understand the German language."
He found that the airport had been taken over by the Luftwaffe.
The senior German officer, Major Albrecht Lanz, asked to be taken to the island's chief man.
They went by police car to the Royal Hotel where they were joined by the bailiff, the president of the controlling committee, and other officials. Lanz announced through an interpreter that Guernsey was now under German occupation. In this way the Luftwaffe pre-empted the Wehrmacht's invasion plans.
Jersey surrendered on 1 July 1940.
Alderney, where only a handful of islanders remained, was occupied on 2 July and a small detachment travelled from Guernsey to Sark, which surrendered on 4 July 1940.
The first shipborne German troops consisting of two anti-aircraft units, arrived in St. Peter Port on the captured freighter SS Holland on 14 July 1940.
The German forces quickly consolidated their positions.
They brought in infantry, established communications and anti-aircraft defences, established an air service with occupied mainland France, and rounded up British servicemen on leave.
The Channel Islands were amongst the most heavily fortified parts of the Atlantic Wall, particularly Alderney which is the closest to France.
On 20th October 1941 Hitler signed a directive, against the advice of Commander-in-Chief von Witzleben, to turn the Channel Islands into an "impregnable fortress".
In the course of 1942, one twelfth of the resources funnelled into the whole Atlantic Wall was dedicated to the fortification of the Channel Islands.
Hitler had decreed that 10% of the steel and concrete used in the Atlantic Wall go to the Channel Islands.
It is often said the Channel Islands were better defended than the Normandy beaches, given the large number of tunnels and bunkers around the islands.
By 1944 in tunneling alone, 244,000 cubic metres (8,600,000 cu ft) of rock had been extracted collectively from Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney (the majority from Jersey).
At the same point in 1944 the entire Atlantic Wall from Norway to the Franco-Spanish border, excluding the Channel Islands, had extracted some 225,000 cubic metres (7,900,000 cu ft)
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[@jeanlouiskoos522]

Bien fait votre vidéo.

[@stevejake3205]

AWESOME - always wanted to see it looks very impressive

[@DESIBOY-fe7nm]

Until Battleships show up.

[@BuitenlevenmetBert]

Great video! The small area you revered to on lvl 1 is not an ammunition storage though. It looks to me that is is ment as an emergency escape. The reason that I believe this is that the observationpost only has one entrance. The Germans decided that every re-enforced building (bunker) the built should have an emergency escape if it had only one entrance.

[@shaunmarsh7930]

You are correct it is an escape shaft

[@DESIBOY-fe7nm]

2:15 I'm no expert. But that looks like a beautiful target for naval artillery.

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Nice coverage sir! How many inhabitants were, post invasion, extracted by the Krauts and sent to the 'camps', any idea?

[@THINKincessantly]

Hail Victory 🤚

[@Katmando376]

They should be demolished as so many people died building them!

[@292Nigel]

Demolished? You're joking! These fortifications are major tourist attractions, and are part of the islands history. People come from many countries and spend a great deal of money into the local economy, visiting these places. Your view is at odds with the vast numbers of people who have visited over many years. Myself among them. Based on that logic maybe they should demolish the pyramids because of all the people who died building them!! If you start to think like that then many buildings, roads, bridges etc would be destroyed. I couldn't disagree more!

[@petergiourelas3753]

Another feelings over fact nutjob