Hi, Just thought i'd start a new thread to see if anyone knows of any undiscovered sights in Germany etc as we've all heard of the secret underground hangers full of King Tigers etc dotted around.
To start with i can contribute with Gutersloh and Detmold Airfields, both German nightfighter bases. Gutersloh has a cracking room in the officer’s mess building in which Goering used to stay, one of the oak beams in the ceiling has been rigged with levers and pulleys to collapse under control by using a switch underneath the floor boards. It was rigged up out of Aircraft parts by the German Airmen as a practical joke after Goerings speach about the roof collapsing if any enemy bomber makes it to the Reich. The room now houses an impressive collection of relic aircraft parts, machine guns and swastika marked wing panals that have been dug up over the years on the Airfield.
As for Detmold, during the early 1980's one of the old aircraft hangers was demolished to make way for a new building, from the rubble during the excavation came the remains of a ME262 jet fighter along with a nice MG121 wing machine gun that now hangs on the wall in one of the Army Air Corps hangers at Wattisham Suffolk, Also in the rumble came the entrance to an underground store, NO REALLY
) No tiger tanks but a store full of vintage motor bikes, not sure if an were Wartime issue but my father who was a member of the motor bike club at the time picked up a nice 1930's German Tornax racing bike for a tenner which was painted maroon, the standerd colour of all bikes commandeered by the Germans during the early part of the war......... anyone know of any other finds of treasure in theThird Reich????
To start with i can contribute with Gutersloh and Detmold Airfields, both German nightfighter bases. Gutersloh has a cracking room in the officer’s mess building in which Goering used to stay, one of the oak beams in the ceiling has been rigged with levers and pulleys to collapse under control by using a switch underneath the floor boards. It was rigged up out of Aircraft parts by the German Airmen as a practical joke after Goerings speach about the roof collapsing if any enemy bomber makes it to the Reich. The room now houses an impressive collection of relic aircraft parts, machine guns and swastika marked wing panals that have been dug up over the years on the Airfield.
As for Detmold, during the early 1980's one of the old aircraft hangers was demolished to make way for a new building, from the rubble during the excavation came the remains of a ME262 jet fighter along with a nice MG121 wing machine gun that now hangs on the wall in one of the Army Air Corps hangers at Wattisham Suffolk, Also in the rumble came the entrance to an underground store, NO REALLY
) No tiger tanks but a store full of vintage motor bikes, not sure if an were Wartime issue but my father who was a member of the motor bike club at the time picked up a nice 1930's German Tornax racing bike for a tenner which was painted maroon, the standerd colour of all bikes commandeered by the Germans during the early part of the war......... anyone know of any other finds of treasure in theThird Reich???? 
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