Whilst no documentary evidence has survived the war as to the bunkers purpose, it is believed that B8 Bergkristall was an underground factory where the Messerschmitt Me — the first operational jet fighter — was built. The facility was constructed with slave labour from concentration camps, where up to , inmates are believed to have been worked to death. B8 Bergkristall stopped all works on May 3, , as allied troops approached the nearby town. Battery Moltke is an unfinished Nazi coastal artillery battery in St Ouen in the north west of Jersey.
It was constructed by Organisation Todt, a Third Reich civil and military engineering group in Germany named after its founder, Fritz Todt for the Wehrmacht during the occupation of the Channel Islands. The battery structures include bunkers, gun emplacements and the Marine Peilstand 3 tower, which was one of nine planned towers in Jersey for use in observing targets at sea.
Plans for the bunker called for a massive reinforced concrete barrel vault composed of 12 arch sections under which Messerschmitt Me jet engines would be manufactured in a 9-story factory. This network of underground factories was intended to ensure the production of the Me at a time when the Allies had already gained control of the German airspace.
Despite it being increasingly clear to the organisers of the project that it would never be finished in time to make a difference in the war, the construction of Weingut I was approved on a 6-month time-line. Of these more than 3, would die of overwork, underfeeding, and SS brutality. HeritageDaily is an independent publisher of the latest scientific discoveries, research, and travel news.
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Nothing has been done to the site ever since. There is an elaborate gilded monument to the estimated 14, victims in the nearby village of Stryzhavka. In his study hung his most revered piece of art: a portrait of Frederick the Great. After meeting with his generals and strategizing until early in the morning, sometimes as late as 5 a. The rest of the day was entirely taken up with conversations with political and military leaders. He took lunch in the late afternoon.
The bunker became gloomier still the next day, when the newlyweds committed suicide.
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