Crisbecq: A GIANT German Bunker Complex in NORMANDY! | History Traveler Episode 198

Have you ever thought of doing a documentary on Auschwitz or Treblinka

Wow, thanks for this, man… we’re in Bayeux for the next few days, and this place wasn’t even on our list. We’ll be heading to Crisbecq in the morning!

We can never say it enough, thank you for preserving a part of our history and our freedom. Freedom is not free. God, Family, and Country.

I'm getting a strong Return to Castle Wolfenstein vibe.

Another outstanding video. Wow. I wish my wife & I could afford to go there ?

There was a much bigger complex in Quiberon, Brittany. Every so often the French military blow a bunker up, but there's still a fair bit left.

Fantastic loving you info. My uncle's were ANZACS but we're in north Africa and Italy

Thank for showing to us the 🇩🇪 bunkers... N beaches ... I can see the materials used really very thick.. N strong... Nice architecture ...

Where I was born and grew up, these bunkers were EVERYWHERE 😔. A constant reminder of what took place there. My grand father was actively fighting in the résistance.

Wow, simply, Wow

I was lucky enough to visit Pointe du Hoc a few years ago. Sorry I missed this site.

One of the many reasons I love this channel is that I learn something new every video. I have never heard or read about any Kriegsmarine personnel being anywhere on the Normandy invasion beaches, but apparently there were 👍🏻

Who purchased those places and restored them?

The amount of concrete and labor that went into these is crazy. Does any one know why the tops of the bunkers are round? Save concrete over a square version? I am getting so addicted to this channel. Different perspective than much of the older film footage that most of us know about. Thank you for the history lessons.

Your Chanel is great mate. Would you be able to do some videos on the stalag luft iii or if you already have put a link to it pleaee

That's Pointe du Hoc.

Awesome video. Keep up the good work!

Outstanding video 👌😁. You're videos are excellent. We cannot thank you enough for sharing these videos.
Thank you so much and God bless you always 👌🙏

Crisbeq, right.
Last visited here and the one just N back in 96, neither were as preserved as now, back then.

Gaudy “history” restored instead of the beauty the krauts destroyed for that crap. Typical goofy redneck.

Hey Traveller , thought you might like to know that here in Central France I just saw a guy wearing a black jacket with a 101st Airborne patch on the sleeve , hope you read this .

Could you recommend the best tour as I plan on heading over with my dad , as he is pushing 80 I’m looking for the best experience with minimal fuss with his age and condition,as travelling from Dublin I’m really not to sure about best way, seems so many options and types, gets a bit confusing,

The dead most often evacuate their bowels. So..... Same Same

Was all this built by the Germans? Or did the French build it before they handed their country over to the Nazis?

Great video. But you grind my gears how little prospective you give where you are and not doing 360s after interning a room to show what it looks like from the inside out.....

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What did he mean holding people up

They did a super job bringing this bunker back to life ! Thank you for the tour ..

Can you recommend a tour group or a person to contact to plan a tour to the Normandy area?

When are you going to go to Maisy Battery??? Amazing story...

THANK YOU!!!

Well done. Love your work

I imagine anyone in that bunker would have their brain instantly turned to stew because of the concussion of the blast if they didn’t have a door separating you from the same air chamber. Grenades, rpgs, etc will kill you from the pressure if in the same enclosed room, it doesn’t need to hit you with shrapnel to hurt you.

It's a great video. I am so impressed how you present your videos. Your knowledge is outstanding.

It’s not unbelievable to think that one day in the future, given Russias stance on Europe, that these bunker complexes may be used once again.

Fabulous.

Curse just one time for us pls! Say Jesus fucking Christ, or Holly crap or something like that!

First let me apologize for not always hitting the thumbs up on every video. I'm sure other feel the same way when i say that i get so engrossed in your videos i just forget to hit it. It's my belief that you have the finest, most informative, historical videos I've ever seen. Absolutely fantastic presentations.
Keep up the great work!
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Awesome ! Just wow. This just keeps elevating my respect (is that even possible?) for our young men seeing how fortified these bunkers were. Of course I’m sure the Germans said “Holy Sh**” when they saw the ships that morning. Impossible to imagine.

I was stationed with the 5/81st ABN FA in Wiesbaden Germany. We use to participate in training maneuvers at Grafenwoehr(Rommel's old stomping grounds). This was the first time I experienced German bunkers. They were strong, well-built structures that I found fascinating. Glad you like showing them.

Make videos longer to see everything.

Boy I gotta tell ya I had the chance to visit France some many decades ago, in college, and am sitting here trying to figure out how my brain totally misplaced all my fascination with WWII. I spent time in Paris and took the rail to the coast, many miles south of Normandy, only to just lay on the beach and improve my tan. The humungous gun emplacements, giant concrete pillboxes, were still intact some forty years after the fact, and were impressive. However not impressive enough to awaken my lifetime study of WWII, especially D-Day. And now that I'm thinking of it my trip ended on ~June 8th. Most curious of all is I never thought of it once until just now seeing your video. Thanks for the memory, huh!?!

You need to do a video on Maisy Battery which is near Pointe-du-Hoc and is impressive but not as developed a site as Crisbecq. You can almost feel the Germans there. I think you should also add material on how the US military took over either battery. How many Germans were there on June 6, 1944? (300 in the case of Crisbecq). How long did they hold out? How many died? Why was it even possible to take these over? I keep thinking of these during my trip last week to Maisy. I also kept thinking about the resources that went into them and whether it was a waste. Neither battery really held out very long. What if the Germans had well-defended (from the air) camps that protected Panzers? I understand that the German problem in 1944 was the lack of pilots but they didn't lack 88s.
Maisy would look good for you because it was not well known but the Allies marked it as the 5th most dangerous site on D day.

"I'm holding people up" What? What people? I never saw another sole around there. I was thinking, wow, how great to have the place to yourself.

Finally a very welcome notification for HU after a month of none

Best Military descriptive term of the day: "Big, ol' daggum hole". Yep! And the damage young soldiers could create clearing the tons of ordinance. Finding bits of humor in a horrific fight for freedom. Certainly not "loser and suckers" as some said.

Warn visitors that there's a 12.50 euro per person, entrance fee to this

last week I did visit this location and it is really impressive! Your Video was very helpful to learn something about this amazing location in advance. Thanks much 👍