Ever been to see the Maginot Line Bunker at Hatten in Alsace?

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Just back from holiday in France and on Friday last week I went to a little military museum in a small village called Hatten in Alsace...primarily to see the Maginot Line Bunker and associated museum...which was very interesting...but to my surprise they had quite a large collection of NVA military vehicles....here are the pics..Cheers, Torsten.

First up is an NVA MIG21...

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my four year old son checking out the cockpit of the MIG21

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assortment of Nachrichten vehicles...

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all of the vehicles looked to be in a very poor and uncared for state unfortunately...as if they had been parked up more than 10 years ago and never been looked at since....

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dummy for anti aircraft artillery...

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a YAK27 and assorted Belger family...

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front cockpit of the Yak

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NVA Mi8 transport helicopter (there were a couple more helicopters on display...)

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strange display...they also had a mock section of the Berlin Wall there, which I did not bother to photograph...

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could only take pics through the windows of a display that was meant to depict an inter-allied control checkpoint...

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east german display cabin that also had an Soviet Army soldier mixed into it and some of the east german uniforms on display had severe mistakes in rank and awards, etc...

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note the Interflug Baevo...

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I would quite like to have the Wartburg enamel sign....

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this is not the mock section of the wall that i was talking about earlier, but rather is another display...

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more signs on display