Friday, June 27, 2008

Untouched WWII Bunker Found

(Copenhagen, Denmark) Part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall on the North Sea coast has been found, untouched for more than six decades. According to Jens Andersen, director of the Hansholm Museum, wind blew the sand off the bunker, allowing it to be seen.

When experts were able to enter the structure, located west of the town of Ringkobing on the Jutland peninsula, they found the interior had been undisturbed since being abandoned by German troops.

The archaeologists found bunks, chairs, cabinets, parts of uniforms and even bottles of ink that soldiers had left behind.

"It's fantastic," said Andersen. "I would have never thought something like this would have been possible."

According to the museum director, the bunker had probably been covered by shifting sands so quickly after the German surrender in May 1945 that there was no time to empty it of its contents.
Heh.

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