Speedboat bunker

Speedboat bunker Ijmuiden II, 2015

Schnellbootbunkers were built during World War II to protect German Schnellbootflotillen from Allied air raids on the Dutch, Belgian and French coasts. The facilities reached similar dimensions as the submarine bunkers built at the same time . Most of the facilities have been preserved to this day and some of them can be visited.

From 1940 the construction of a total of five large bunkers began in IJmuiden , Rotterdam , Ostend , Boulogne-sur-Mer and Cherbourg . The construction of the facilities was carried out by the Todt organization and civil companies. The systems remained in operation until the Allies recaptured the coast in 1944/45. Today they are partly used commercially and partly as a museum.

Web links

Commons : Schnellbootbunker  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Pictures of the plants

literature

• Gerhard Hümmelchen : The German speedboats in World War II. Hamburg, Mittler & Sohn, 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0487-1 .
• Jac. J. Baart: Speedboats: operaties vanuit Holland, Vlaanderen en Frankrijk 1940–1945. Lanasta, 2006. ISBN 90-8616-005-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Hümmelchen: The German speedboats in World War II. Hamburg, Mittler & Sohn, 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0487-1 , p. 36 ff.
2. ↑ Jac. J. Baart; Speedboats: Operaties vanuit Holland, Vlaanderen en Frankrijk 1940–1945. Lanasta, 2006. ISBN 90-8616-005-0 , p. 22 f.
3. ↑ Gerhard Hümmelchen: The German speedboats in World War II. Hamburg, Mittler & Sohn, Mittler & Sohn. 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0487-1 , p. 12 ff.