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World War II Bunkers

Image: a part of Mittelbau Dora with the V2 rocket factory.

The necessity to build bunkers agains air raid started with the development of aircrafts good enough to transport a heavy load of bombs over an appropriate distance. This happened first during World War II. The air crafts of World War I were still primarly used for air reconnaissance and for fights one on one.

As the invention of heavy bombers were a general invention of numerous countries, they also tried to build bunkers for defense. They should house vital infrastructure and safe it from air raids.

Most of the bunkers were used for people. They had to go to the nextbunker when the siren gave alarm. The bunkers were signed. Many houses had a cellar renamed bunker. All those underground shelter were rather spartanic, only intended to seat the people for a few hours while bombs were falling. And many of them were rather unsafe, as people could not leave them any more if the house above was destroyed, and so they had to die.

Some of those bunkers were special. The had an certain use and probably different equipment. Some bunkers were miltary bunkers for the General Staff, others were used to store valuable. Some bunkers were intended for high personalities, other for organizing a battle.

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