Museum Engelandvaarders
Experience how men and women escaped occupied Holland and continued their resistance against Nazi Germany and Japan from English territory in Museum Engelandvaarders.
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Experience how men and women escaped occupied Holland and continued their resistance against Nazi Germany and Japan from English territory in Museum Engelandvaarders.
The 3-storey high S414 bunker was the main command station for the whole Noordwijk battery.
The ammunition for the Schnellboote, the torpedoes, was stored in a munitions bunker that was specially designed for the purpose.
Hidden on the Paasdal midget golf course is a small communications bunker.
This rare type V143 radar bunker was completed in September 1943 and contained a Mammut radar screen.
Every Widerstandsnest (WN) was fully equipped. The soldiers slept in a separate barracks bunker and the food was prepared daily in the kitchen bunker
This type Küver 451a personnel bunker was part of the W.N. 122
This type V.F. 7a munitions bunker is transformed into a small museum.
This bunker is a special type 638, built to function as a medical emergency centre during an attack.
There are only two of this type of bunker in the whole Atlantic Wall.
This FL250 (Flakgruppen Kommandostand) was nicknamed ‘Kroontjesbunker’ (‘Crown Bunker’) because of the shape of the tower.
A limited force of just 225 Dutch soldiers managed to hold back the 15000 advancing German troops
In this former mess hall you’ll find a exhibition about De Tijger (The Tiger) radar.
The Germans built a bunker on the highest dune on the island for a radar. A radar system (the ‘Wassermann’) was to be installed on top of the bunker, constructed from a steel cylinder, approximately 40 meters high.
This bunker contained the ammunition for the anti-aircraft weapons. You can still see the original camouflaging on the outside walls.
Between the bunkers in the Goetlijfpark you will find re-enacmtent of the 2nd Kompanie Gebirgsjäger Regiment 100. They show how the originally Austrian Gebirgsjägers lived.
The foundation Stichting Historie Vliegveld Valkenburg (SHVV) has converted the telephone exchange at the former naval airbase Valkenburg into a visitor center. The above-ground bunker
When soldiers of the Canadian 7th Infantry liberated Groede and the surrounding area on October 25th 1944, they were surprised to find a well-camouflaged German bunker ‘village’, part of the Atlantic Wall, just outside the village itself. It appears to be an ordinary village with streets and houses, but in reality it is the regional headquarters and ‘Stützpunkt’ Groede.
Stelling 46 (Widerstandsnest 46), belonged to the outer land front of the German Festung (fortress) Hoek van Holland. Three of the eight bunkers still remain including a bunker for troops (621), ammunition (134) and a mortar (Bauform 206).
Defense line with various bunkers on the tank moat at the Hoek van Holland Fortress.
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