IMPRESSIVE, HISTORICAL witness of the pre-WW II, during and after...It will remain forever. Thanks Tino.

Hey Tino! I am from Austria and found your channel about a month ago. Thank you for covering so many different topics with a thirst for your very own scientific and historic conclusions no matter what the status quo is! I had the fortune to care for my grandpa who was born in 1926 and in those years got to know him and a ton of his friends very close. Each and every one of whom were living textbooks full of stories bigger and more influential than my still very young mind could ever comprehend and contradicting so much of the simplified accounts i had been taught in school, all the while relieving so much pressure to perform that society was putting on me at the time by realizing what it really means to be human. Please keep documenting for the sake of all of our forefathers ,everyone who will come after us and of course everyone today. Its so much more lively, interesting and colourful than the cut and dry history the typical school setting offers and much more effective in helping young people to reach a conclusion with their own minds leading to a future and planet that will be better than how we found it when we came to be in this world.

Hello my good sir. My name is Max and i come from Greece. Greece has also a significant line of fortifications along the greek - bulgarian border called the Metaxas Line named after Greece's prime minister in the 1930s. When the german army attacked Greece on the 6th of April of 1941, the defenders stood their ground and fought for 4 days against a bigger enemy. The greek army didnt lose the fight but surrendered when on the 10th of the same month the germans entered Greece through Yugoslavia. Its an interesting piece of history. I recommend it. Keep up the great work and thank you.

Good work Tino. I've been here for 68 years, and as my father was in the British army during WW2, I was brought up on war stories. But I'm learning more from you and your wonderful videos than I have in the whole of my life! As always, thank you so much, and keep safe.

I was not born in those times, but i am able to imagine, the stories you brought in videos. I learn...

Thank you for making this video for us Tino Struckmann.

A Counter weight of 180 tons ! totally fantastic and I think the greatest thing is what went into the Human side of tunnelling that place out back then , my Dad would have luv'd these vids as he was an Engineer who served his time in the Mines in Scotland . .good one Tino .

We were fortunate to tour Overage Simserhof a few years ago while visiting friends in Germany. The scale of the complex was/is mindboggling.

The scale of the Maginot Line is unimaginable, it's tremendous how large and technology advanced (according to technology when built) the bunkers and fortifications are. Thanks Tino for capturing that aspect!

Great work Tino. Thanks for yet another great tour of a WW2 Fort.

If humans put as much effort into helping to lift one another instead of trying to kill one another, imagine the world we would live in now. Rest In eternal peace to all those who gave their to lmorrows for our todays. We owe these men everything.

What an amazing place Tino that you’ve forever shown and preserved for future history followers, yet too young to appreciate it or come across your work yet.

SORRY JUST CAUGHT THE AUTO COMMERCIAL INSERTS AND DELETED HALF OF THEM!!

Impressive video, the quality is outstanding with the inserted black and white footage. A great overview of this historically important fort.

Another great one. Thanks again.

Great Great Job Tino🇺🇸

Tino your the man. keep it going. also loved your live Q&A. Let's have more

Thanks Tino, excellent in depth info.

Impressive fort, impressive presentation. Thank you for posting.

Great stuff Tino thanks dude!

Brilliant. More please

Thanks Tino, very interesting and informative. I very much appreciate the study you must do to give accurate and extensive historical context to your films. Thank you.

You gave a excellent impression of the size of this bunker complex, and a very clear background in how it came into being. I look forward to the next one.

Amazing construction and the size is something else as well. Great series. Keep up the exploring and discoveries, enjoying it all.

Another excellent video.many thanks😁👍

Hello Tino. Thank you for these good videos. I like to look at them and find out something new every time. Just keep going.

Thank you for featuring the kitchens and medical areas Tito, they fascinate me and show the level of importance the country placed on troop welfare etc..

Tino. You are rocking the program! WOW. I've done much reading / watching clips on Maginot Line, but I will have to say this production of yours is the best I've come across! Makes me want to plan a trip to check it out.

À voir absolument !

very well edited and narrated presentation of this impressive fort. thank you for your work on these short documentaries

I want to go see this place now!! Cheers Tino as usual you Inform Entertain and Educate in an Entertaining way nice one!

Another really good production Tino. Well done keep up the great work.

Awesome video!! Deserves way more views. Keep up the great work

I haven't been so inspired and excited for a documentary as I am now by yours Tino for a long, long time (since I was a kid - and I'm no kid anymore! lol) Keep up this Amazing work, it deserves to be on Prime Time Cable TV but probably making more of an impact right here on KZfaq. I've quickly become a huge fan. Great work!

amazing :) great work

Great Video, Brother Struckmann!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did enjoy this .

The guy in Fort Casso RULES!

Wow really big with the tank blocks

Decent thanks for posting

Impressive a rare english speaker that does not do France shaming for WWII. Thanks. Especially if you remeber that UK has just an expedition force in France, Germany was allied to Russia and japan (and France was also defending Vietnam area) and US don't go to war until december 1941 (3 years after the beggining of the war).

Tino! As usual, you nailed this tour of this part of the defensive line. A part that is very interesting to me is the way the fort was used after the war into the cold war. This is interesting to me because I grew up during the cold war and remember all the propaganda (from both directions) that was used to influence young minds. I didn't believe all of it. You do a lot of research before a production, and it certainly shows as a positive influence in your films. You fill in a lot of the gaps that major well known documentaries leave out or never did even know. Some details you cover are very important to understanding the big picture of the topics you are covering. Your experience in the military certainly helps you understand more and therefore relay it to your audience. Keep up the good work. I don't see how you have avoided being picked up on contract by some production company. That being said, if you do get picked up by some, you know they will want some degree of control over the content, since in today's world everything seems to have a political twist somewhere inside. This, my friend, has become a crying shame to our country.

Thank you Tino. I am very interested in seeing your piece on Eben Emael.

The remark about the bureaucrat Maginot. One of the few you like. Briljant👍

Great idea - many other WW2 youtubers got no such a an ideas

Thank you again Mr. Struckmann. As an American I must face my own bias and concede that US efforts at fortification building simply cannot hold a candle to the scale of European efforts. I understand the reasons for that. However, as a seacoast defense fortification, I still believe the Manila Bay defenses put anything else I have ever seen in the shade. I'm the "one word for you - CORREGIDOR" guy. I was only able to visit Corregidor, and only once, none of the other three subsidiary forts, and that was nigh on 50 years ago. I can only sadly imagine the deterioration and destruction wrought on them since. I have no secret or restricted information, however If it should ever arise that you have some curiosity as to detail or trivia in regard to the Manila seacoast defenses, it would be my hope to be of assistance, and my pleasure to respond. There is certainly nothing restored there. What I recall most strikingly is the level of destruction. One can read of "8-10 feet of steel reinforced concrete" in passing. Standing over a 12' diameter penetration of same was an awe-inspiring moment to me that simply has never faded. Thank you again for what you are doing here. I am looking for a 'support' button here, but my observation skills are letting me down...

The thought they really used in designing these forts was just amazing.

Tino just yesterday said on the Q AND A that he would put up a video about WW1 and like all of his content on his channel another amazing video

Tino struckman bodyguard to the stars actor historian writer army what a legend

If you ever want to visit fort “R”, one of the biggest forts of the maginot line, and with a very interesting history until 2007, I can take you there.

Thanks for the video. I may never get back to France to see it.

Maginot really stood out in a crowd, in photos he looked like a giant. I found he was 6" 6" tall his weight by the looks about 300 lbs

Thank you for dispelling the Myth that the French turned tail and ran at the sight of a German uniform.Also i have a Maginot Line cap badge passed down to me from my Grandfather,it is in a frame alongside his medals.

Hi. Thanks so much for this video.It's a fantastic excellent built fort and it doesn't need massive amount of cement&else like german ones. the only problem i think is that electric railway can be dangerous for bikers.What a building!!! Thanks!

thank you for your detailed history analysis. Excellent video! The French could have changed the course of the war, had the germans gone the wrong way. Amazing stuff!

very nice, thank you Tino! where do you find time, love the picture's

The Maginot line is a huge monument made of rock and concrete against the fortress war and for the Blitzkrieg and the air/land battle concept.

I wished you could show us Gibraltar, Malta, Italy and Italian Torando naval base, Tobruk,

The hilarious motto of the Maginot Line: "On ne passe pas", meaning: "they [the enemy] shall not get past"

Hey Tito, I love your work; but could you possibly do something about the constantly fluctuating volume levels between Speech and Music?

Similiar to the Great Wall of China. Sounded like a good idea at the time. Never thought the Germans would run abound the back.

1:00: Those are German turrets* built by Krupp-Gruson, not French ones . . . *) Exactly 10 cm-Turmkanonen---used in: Feste Istein, Feste Kaiser Wilhelm II, Festung Metz ,Festung Diedenhofen (Thionville).

Fortified 3 star restaurants :-)

I like your videos....there are so many armoured concrete buildings in Europe....u don't will have the time to visit all of them.....

The French soldier I feel has gotten a raw deal or as someone said ...... “ Yet, as Charles De Gaulle observed to Stalin, in the aftermath of this colossal defeat, the Soviets still had 5,000 miles of Eurasia into which they could retreat. The French did not lack courage in 1940; they lacked space. “. They fought thou partially trained with inferior leadership and primitive communication equipment.

Nice great job ! A other great bunker from ww2 but it's not in lorraine this time is the U-boot (submarine) base built by the german from in Saint Nazaire on the Atlantic cost of France

It's not "Ouverage", but "Ouvrage" . In fact, the Hackenberg was a double fortification . His "brother" in dimensions and crew was the "Hochwald" in north Vosges (Alsace) . For people who are interested about Maginot Line, you can read a very good book, called "La Muraille de France" , author Pilippe Truttmann. And here you will find all historicals, plans of each fortification, their crews , organizations, management and armament. And in this book, you will find a lot of unpublished & untraceable pictures.

Thanks letting the commercials run as usual....thank you.

holy cow, if you want to contacrt tim kennedy, try black rifle coffee company, keep on enlightening us

Hey Tino! I'm a producer of Korean JTBC broadcasting station. I'm going to use this video as a reference video that you uploaded. Can you allow me?

The Maginot - When is a wall a door...?

I wonder if anyone made a simulation to see how it would have held up against a direct attack from the German army. If nobody did then I think its a cool idea :-)

Would one of our modern day " Bunker Busters Bombs or Missiles " do much destruction to the Maginot Line ? Thanks Tino.

Le horwald possédait 2 usines pour alimenter ses2 ailes….tellement il était…..immense. Tchuss, pierro.

Hello friend, ever heard about the Greek ww2 fortifications?

I keep seeing this add So I am also a vet and I want ID and ID checked before voting...

You tube; every 5 min is a commercial ? Really ? Theres not that much even on tv.

Well, tu visites l,ouvrage ouest, mais s,ais tu que ..malheureusement, l,ouvrage est…..est condamné,malheureusement,à cause de l,anhydrite. Dommage..merci pour ton travail,Tchuss pierro.

How'd that maginot line work for ya?

Tall Dude

Ok. Thé haken, one of the big fort, but…..you now the Horwald? A visité s,impose!!!

the maginot line was not a failure the germans didnt attack it for the most part.

Sod it. We will go around.

Read Alistair Horne's: France 1940 To Lose A Battle. Tells you all you need to know why France fell in 1940 and it has nothing to do with the Maginot Line!

Makes you wonder if the Germans got their idea's for their bunkers from here.

It was all ready built they modified it.

"only five fell to german attacks" because the germans simply outflanked them by passing through neutral belgium🤣🤣🤣

Hey,Tino, le coca,c, est pas bon,bois de l,eau,où,un coup de rouge,……c,est la France…Tchuss.

Change music volume is awful. Music is annoying in general.

France Europe soft underbelly

All that work ... for Nothing

Too many fucking ads

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