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Bunkerdag | 25 mei 2024

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Langs de kust van Nederland zijn nog veel sporen te vinden van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De bunkers, gebouwd als onderdeel van de Atlantikwall, springen het meest in het oog.

Op zaterdag 25 mei 2024 van 10.00 tot 17.00 uur zijn de bunkers van Zeeland tot de Waddeneilanden samen open voor Bunkerdag! Het programma staat vanaf 1 maart 2024 op de website.

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Vaak onopvallend verborgen in het landschap, ligt de Nederlandse kust nog vol met bunkers uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Op zaterdag 25 mei 2024 is het Bunkerdag. Tussen 10.00 en 17.00 uur gaan van Zeeland tot en met de Waddeneilanden de bunkers van de Atlantikwall gezamenlijk open voor publiek. De betonnen kolossen zijn vaak beperkt toegankelijk. Soms verzonken in het zand of overgenomen door de natuur, vertellen zij nog altijd het verhaal van de Duitse bezetting. Tijdens rondleidingen, wandelingen en korte lezingen ontdekt de bezoeker hoe soldaten in de bunkers leefden en welke invloed de Atlantikwall had op de vele kustbewoners.     Atlantikwall   De Europese kust veranderde tijdens de Duitse bezetting letterlijk in een vesting.   Nazi-Duitsland legde in de Tweede Wereldoorlog een 6.200 kilometer lange verdedigingslinie aan: de Atlantikwall.   Talloze bunkers, tankwallen en loopgraven, gebouwd op strategische plekken, zijn daarvan nog altijd de stille getuigen.   De aanleg van de Atlantikwall had zeer ingrijpende gevolgen voor bewoners in de kustregio.  

Bunkerdag   Eenieder die wel eens nieuwsgierig is geweest naar de betonnen bouwsels langs de kust, kan op zaterdag 25 mei 2024 op ontdekkingstocht gaan. Langs de hele Nederlandse kust zijn bijzondere bunkers open en vertellen vrijwilligers meer over de enorme impact van de oorlog. Voor een overzicht van de te bezoeken bunkers ga je naar de website van bunkerdag .  

Programma   Om stil te staan bij de ingrijpende gevolgen van de Atlantikwall zijn er naast de bunkerbezichtigingen ook allerlei activiteiten voor jong en oud. Acteurs tonen hoe het leven er in en rond de bunkers aan toe ging. Tijdens wandelingen en rondleidingen worden de verhalen van de wijk en haar inwoners nieuw leven ingeblazen. Historische voertuigen rijden bezoekers heen en weer tussen de verschillende bunkerlocaties. Filmvertoningen met historisch beeld brengen ons terug naar voorbije tijden. Speciaal voor kinderen is er een opdrachtenboekje om meer te leren over dit stukje geschiedenis.   

Het hele programma is een maand van tevoren te bekijken op de website van bunkerdag .  Tickets zijn op de dag zelf verkrijgbaar bij de verschillende bunkerlocaties.   

Kaartverkoop Met het entreebewijs voor de Bunkerdag zijn alle opengestelde bunkers te bezoeken. De Bunkerdagtickets zullen verkocht worden op de locaties. Hier kun je niet altijd met pinpas betalen, dus vergeet geen contant geld mee te nemen.

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Almost everyone has heard of Hadrian’s Wall, or the Great Wall of China or the Berlin Wall but not many people are familiar with the Atlantikwall, built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944.

For 1,670 miles from the uppermost part of Finland to the border between France and Spain, Hitler built a series of tunnels, underground bunkers, gun batteries and hidden mined obstacles. Most of the fortifications needed to be manned creating barracks, offices, kitchen and dining facilities, ammunition storage and toilet facilities. One underground bunker, located under The Hague in the Netherlands even had saunas for its 3,000 military inhabitants.

In 1942 Scheveningen, a fishing village just a few miles from The Hague city was made a restricted area by the Germans resulting in over 135,000 residents being forcibly evacuated. Using Dutch civilians and prisoners of war along with German troops and engineers over 35,000 tons of concrete was used to create what was virtually a small underground town. Most of the buildings nearest the coast have fallen into the sea or have fallen apart, but many of the inland sites remain untouched. One small bunker was even incorporated into a private home when it was built. Many of the entrances were filled with rocks and sand after the war as the Dutch wanted to put the years of occupation and war behind them.

Slowly, the European Atlantikwall Heritage Foundation has been digging out and discovering new bunkers and tunnels. Many found on private property have gone up for sale, some have been left alone to shelter wildlife and others are being restored and have become the Atlantikwall Museum.

The Foundation has cleaned up the tunnels and bunkers and has been adding items to make them look as they did when they were occupied by the Germans. The artwork on the walls, furniture rebuilt to specifications and artifacts such as helmets, bottles of German ale and reproduction phones, typewriters and Nazi propaganda fill the tunnels and rooms. Mannequins have been dressed and placed in positions where the Germans did their work. Wartime graffiti and signs carved into or painted on the walls have been preserved.

They are open to the public one day a year in June on Bunker Day when The Hague welcomes tourists to walk through the restored bunkers. When Bunker Day was launched in 2014, there were only a few bunkers along the tour, but now there are open bunkers along the coast of The Netherlands and a few in Belgium. Before and after pictures of one of the restored bunkers can be seen at  40 Before and After Pictures from the WW2 Atlantic Wall Museum .

People in the countries which contain parts of the Atlantikwall have mixed reactions on its preservation. Some want it destroyed and forgotten; others think it should be allowed to tell its history. As more and more sites emerge, it will soon be necessary to make a determination.

In 2011 Rene-Georges Lubat was sent by the Mayor of his town to work on the original Atlantikwall. He was interviewed about his experiences and had this to say:

“There was no choice about it. We had to go.  Naturally , we weren’t enthusiastic, but it is not as if we had any choice. The conditions were not terrible. We weren’t beaten or anything and we got a basic wage.  At the start , we could go home on Sundays but after Stalingrad , they put up barbed wire and we were stuck inside the work camp. Of course , we knew we were building defenses for the Germans and it felt bad. I remember at the end of the war my two brothers came home. One had been a prisoner, the other a deportee. I felt so bad I did not want to go to the party celebrating their return. But I do think the wall should be preserved now. It is important to remember what happened – the ignominy of it all, the cataclysm that we had to endure.”

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The Atlantic Wall: the remnants of Nazis on the Dutch coast

You might have noticed concrete bunkers in the dunes along The Hague’s coastline, ominously pointing out toward the sea. What’s up with these bunkers and why are they there in the first place?

The fortifications extending through most of the Dutch coast are part of the so-called Atlantic Wall, built by Nazi Germany. The project was supposed to extend from the Spanish border in the south, along the coast of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, right up to the Norwegian coast.

The defensive bunkers and walls didn’t do their job yet their remnants are a reminder of the not-so-distant past.

1942, the start of the Atlantic Wall

From 1939 to 1941, it seemed as if the victory of Nazi Germany was on the horizon.

The Lowlands and France were swiftly conquered in 1940, while Great Britain was undergoing a brutal blitz. Meanwhile, on the eastern front Operation Barbarossa kickstarted the invasion of the Soviet Union.

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Nevertheless, the Nazi leadership was wary of the possibility of a two-front invasion. With the Blitz in the UK stalling, and Stalingrad blocking Nazi advancement on the eastern front, there were concerns of a possible Allied invasion on the western seaboard.

The building of the Atlantic Wall

Constructions of the Atlantic Wall started in 1942 due to the fear of an invasion from the West.

Initially, it was called the New West Wall, but this didn’t have much of a ring to it so they changed its name to the Atlantic Wall for propaganda purposes.

Nazi Germany directed many resources to construct the Wall with up to half a million people working on it during its peak. The workers consisted of forced labourers from conquered countries, German soldiers, and professional builders from local communities.

The initial plans involved building 15,000 bunkers along the French, Belgian, and Dutch coasts . Due to limited resources, only 6,000 of those bunkers were finished by May 1, 1943.

In the Netherlands, the initial plan was to build 2,000 bunkers. Only 510 of those bunkers were completed.

Structures of the Atlantic Wall

These bunkers formed the Atlantic Wall out of independent structures in battle. The bunker was the main fortification found along the Atlantic Wall and there was a major variation of size depending on the strategic location along the coast .

The Wall also consisted of batteries containing anti-aircraft guns, radio installations, and storage facilities for ammunition and troops. The defences were connected through a series of underground trenches.

Beyond bunkers and trenches, fences, and natural barriers such as steep dunes were also established.

Demolitions along the Atlantic Wall

Building the Atlantic Wall proved to be a traumatic experience for the communities living alongside the coast.

In the Netherlands alone, hundreds of thousands of people had to relocate from their homes which had been demolished by the Wall — some never to return.

In The Hague, for example, the Nazis built a 10-kilometre-long stretch that was 500 metres wide to make an anti-tank ditch, demolishing several neighbourhoods.

They also destroyed many of the buildings alongside the main boulevard in Katwijk, including a historic fisherman’s quarter.

Nature was also hard-hit by the demolitions, excavating the dunes to build the wall. The Nazis cut forests down and destroyed thousands of hectares of farmland to build trenches and mines for the military.

Fall of the Atlantic Wall

From the get-go, the Atlantic Wall was more of a desperate attempt to prevent a Western invasion than it was a well-thought-out strategy. The Wall was, at best, a deterrent through propaganda meant to detract from an invasion.

READ MORE | Photo report: the Netherlands at war, 1940-1945

The failure of the Wall became evident with the Normandy Invasion by Western forces on June 6, 1944.

While some areas of the Wall proved to repel attacks for some time, both on the ground and in the air, allied forces breached the defences relatively fast.

Post-war Atlantic Wall

Many bunkers were demolished immediately after the war throughout the late 40s and the 50s in the Netherlands. More bunkers were demolished in the 60s in Zeeland and Zuid-Holland as they became a flooding hazard.

The Atlantic Wall nevertheless left its mark on the Netherlands and other countries. The ruins, ranging from bunkers to railways and sandpits, can be found all along the coast.

The Hague is one of the most distinct places where you can still see this heritage — not only in ruins scattered around but also in the city’s post-war development that emerged from the demolitions done to build the Atlantic Wall.

A brutal war, but Dutch heritage nonetheless

Immediately after the war, nobody wanted to see the Atlantic Wall for its historical significance, and for a good reason. Still, as years went by, people looked back at the Atlantic Wall not with horror but with historical curiosity and interest.

Towards the turn of the century, bunkers started to be excavated after many years under the sand. Some were open to the public as museums, the first and most notable bunker being the Atlantic Wall Museum in the Hook of Holland, which opened back in 1996.

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Other initiatives were started in Scheveningen and IJmunden . Bunkers are also being excavated and reopened elsewhere.

Have you seen or visited any of the bunkers from the former Atlantic Wall? Let us know in the comments!

Feature Image: German Federal Archives /Wikimedia Commons/ CC3.0 Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in June 2020 and was fully updated in May 2023 for your reading pleasure.

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I have many memories of the Dunes and it’s bunkers in Scheveningen. We played in and around them, and when we got older , it was used as an area to go to with your sweetheart. the dunes has many stories to tell , as it was then open without prikkeldraad. SO MANY STORIES and happiness for the new generation.

I did the same when I lived in the Hague in the 1960s.

Most interesting! Thanks for sharing this!

I visited the Normandy fortifications in 1986. Some of them look so impenetrable I wondered why the Allies decided to invade there. Isolated batteries and bunkers along the NL coast may have proved less of an obstacle but a lot more civilians would have been caught up.

I also remember playing in many of the bunkers as a kid near Zandvoort. Willemstad has numerous bunkers, tunnels and batteries.

In the summer of 2018 I was at the bunkers on Scheveningen beach, the ones described in the last paragraph of the article. Impressive to see such buildings still standing, I cannot imagine what it must have felt like for the Nazis to march in, occupy your homeland, and build such monstrosities.

By the way, I was told off by a local because I climbed one of the bunkers, walking in from the beach side. Must have thought I was a disrespectful/ignorant tourist, but it was just an honest mistake and lack of signage or any sort of fence.

I visited the Atlantic Wall this year in June. The history should be preserved, and maintained for the future. The site in Belgium was interesting, easily walked … I went to France where I saw the remains of the wall as well. It was a beautiful day! I saw the White Cliffs of Dover. I highly recommend this piece of history!!

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The city of Den Haag was the main location for the high political German Reichskommissar Seyss-Inquart. This was the reason for the well designed Stützpunktgruppe Scheveningen. It had a Seefront, a Landfront, a political center, AA-batteries and logistical installations, mostly in St bunkers. Many of the bunkers were not built by the organisation Todt, but by a political firm called Abteilung Siedlung und Bauten. A published book on this organisation and an excellent book on the Atlantikwall in Den Haag, are noted in Sources. The Seefront had many coastal batteries of which the navy battery Scheveningen Nord is very well preserved. Additional pictures Henk Adriaanse, 2005 - 2016.

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This V-2 rocket fired from the Haagse Bos veered off course and struck here on March 23, 1945. It killed six people and wounded two. Also, 17 buildings were destroyed and 14 severely damaged.

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