Time Team T18-E04 Fortaleza de la isla de Hitler (Les Gellettes, Jersey)



Tony Robinson no suele decidir dónde debe excavar el equipo, pero en este episodio elige su primer sitio para investigar: una batería antiaérea alemana construida durante la ocupación nazi de Jersey durante cinco años. Los arqueólogos nunca antes habían investigado algo así y deben aplicar todas sus habilidades para dar sentido a un sitio ahora reclamado por un bosque. Pronto queda claro que los emplazamientos de armas son parte de un complejo fortificado mucho más grande que fue el hogar de cientos de soldados alemanes equipados con una amplia gama de armas. Y, a diferencia de los sitios más antiguos, el Equipo puede hablar con personas que fueron testigos de la vida bajo la ocupación de primera mano. Lo que emerge es la impactante historia de una isla fortaleza donde las instalaciones alemanas fueron construidas por mano de obra esclava y la población local comenzó a pasar hambre mientras continuaba la guerra. De condiciones terribles que parecen más apropiadas para las eras que el Equipo suele investigar, en lugar de hace solo 70 años. Durante tres días, Time Team descubre una visión fascinante y, a menudo, aterradora de la vida durante la guerra.

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49 pensamientos sobre “Time Team T18-E04 Fortaleza de la isla de Hitler (Les Gellettes, Jersey)

  1. It's nice to see they have a site that's nice and shady, instead of the usual field under the blazing sun. With cooperation from the weather, they seem to have enjoyed it.

  2. As a teenager I spent my summer holiday in 1961 with my mother staying with my grandmother on Jersey. We often walked to see the various sites used by the occupying Germans during the war, in particular the undrrground hospital. It was a chilling experience.
    Jacky Powell.
    I have found the various Time Team episodes to be particularly interesting and am very glad to be able to watch their patient and knowledgeable archaelogy. Thank you for making it so enjoyable. JackyvPowell

  3. The dramatic identification of the occupation and naming the German Army's fortifications as Hitler' s this and Hitler's that is a very British touch in his narration.

  4. Bettany Hughes has given the best definition I've ever heard of monsters like Hitler and all the other invaders, who sometimes pass for heroes: "You have one megalomaniac individual and everyone else falling in line behind him to take over someone else's territories". It's terrifying to think that humankind falls prey to this kind of people over and over again.

  5. The sand table that Stewart constructed reminded me of the episode of "Dad's Army" where they constructed a sand table of the town for a TEWT, training exercise without troops.

  6. "So generous given the situation" Well, the islanders probably realized what most people keep trying to point out alot with armies, the low soldiers and even most of the high ranking military people were simply following orders that they most likely didn't like but had no choice, it was either follow orders or be thrown in a deep dark prison somewhere at best and straight out killed on the spot at worst and being humans they didn't like seeing the soldiers etc. going hungry. I'm going to go out on a limb and say they probably wouldn't have shared with Hitler or any of the Nazi leadership if they were there starving.

  7. Der lächerlich aussehende Anton Hofreiter Verschnitt kann noch so dämlich grinsen, Deutschland ist in Sachen Erfindungsgeist und Ideenreichtum was den Bau von Kriegsgerät und Bunkeranlagen betrifft lange Zeit unschlagbar gewesen ?!

  8. And what about radar/searchlight emplacements? I suspect Trench 6 was a Radar because of it´s flat location, as opposed to hills banning it´s ´sight´ otherwise. Radars can´t see over hills, well they could not. Now they can, some types.

  9. Great archaeologists they may be , but not weapon experts. The Americans made information films for aircrews regarding anti aircraft fire. A rule of thumb , it took an 88mm shell one second to gain a thousand feet height. Therefore an aircraft flying at 20,000 ft and in a case of a jet airliner would have travelled over three miles from the time the shell was fired. I think the passengers were safe.

  10. 17:56 this is not a razor but a small bakelite Container wich held:"Losantin" a skin detoxment powder issued to all troops in case of poison gas exposure.this item is dropped almost first by the troops because it was issued in such high numbers.it usually has the production date on bottom .

  11. The fabricated War Merit Cross II class w/swords is not necessarily a "jest" award. It was probably earned by one of the German soldiers and with orders for it coming through in such a place where no official awards were available, it was fabricated until the recipient could receive the official version. I have German- fabricated pieces (two Iron Crosses and one wound badge) representing official earned awards from 3 different European wars which were found among the veteran's personal items when they returned from war. Even field created award documents were created to accompany the make-shift awards.

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