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Inside the 'West-Turm':
photo's by: AvB and author 1998, 2002
and 2012 |
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Widerstände sind nicht da,
daß man von ihnen
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kapituliert, sondern daß man Sie
bricht!
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Adolf Hitler |
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Wenn nur der Mut
taugt |
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versagen die
Waffen nicht!
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte |
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Wer
nichts wagt, |
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der darf nichts hoffen!
- Friedrich
Schiller |
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Difficulties are not there
to surrender to, but to defeat them! |
If spirits
are high the weapons will not fail! |
Who never
dares will never win! |
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Typical German slogans by Adolf Hitler and other German philosophers
from the era! |
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Hart
wie Kruppstahl! |
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Zäh wie
Leder! |
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Flink wie die
Windhunde! |
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Hard as Krupp's steel, Tough as leather, Swift as a greyhound! |
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In unseren Augen, da muss der deutsche
Junge der Zukunft schlank und rank sein, flink wie Windhunde, zäh wie
Leder und hart wie Kruppstahl -
Part of a speech by Adolf Hitler
in front of 54.000 "Hitlerjungen"
in Nürnberg, 14 September 1935. |
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| Rohrwischer |
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Storage for the barrel cleaning rod |
| Entladebaum |
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Dischargefacility |
| Entgasungsgerät |
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Degassing device |
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Left:
a shield with the German national colours (black-white-red)
and a nowadays unreadable slogan. |
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Right: Information on the anti-rust treatment
and painting scheme done by a company with high quality
standards: the Kirsch firm from Trier. |
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Painter L. Kirsch is still in business today:
see this link: |
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Place for the "Minimax", the
fire
extinguisher: A company which makes
fire-extinguishers... and is still in business taday:
click-here. |
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Inside the 'Ost-Turm': |
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Without the graffiti, photo: nn |
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Geschütz Borkum |
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Both guns were in a
coastal battery on the island of Borkum untill 1939. They were
moved in July 1940 to the Calais area, by September the guns
were in open emplacements after which the construction of the
bunkers started. |
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| Ansetzer -
Rohrwischer |
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Storage for the barrel cleaning rod |
| Geschützzubehör |
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Gunequipment |
| Alarmzeichen |
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Alarm! |
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The shield with the German national colours (black-white-red) again
and he flying grenade (shield of the Kriegmarine-Artilllery),
faded in 2012... |
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Notlampe stehen lassen |
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Written (in chalk!) late in the war or post war? |
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S" Kugel 300" |
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Rauchen verboten |
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The fields of fire ofthe two bunkers (?) and the ammunition
stock. |
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Pz. Gr. 2,6(?) 80 St. |
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Spr. Gr . 4,2 (?) 60 St. |
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Spr. Gr. ... 40 St. |
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The bunkers are full of small texts. Füllleitung and
various other texts. Are these texts from the 'demining'
days, so post-war? But nevertheless unique! |
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