Oosterbaken: 2012

September 20, 2012.

Hotel / Pension zum Türken,

Located at an altitude of 1000 m (3300 ft.)

Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden.

From the hotel you can reach the access to the

Berghof Bunker / Air-raid shelter system.

NOTE :

It is forbidden to photograph (or to film)

both inside and outside (privat ground).

For that reason I left my camera (Casio EX-FH25) in the car.

So, time for my spy camera (Olympus VG-160).

Normally I wouldn`t do that, but come on..., this was too good to be true.

But I apologize in advance for the poor quality of the pictures.

Hmmmm...,
It seems
to me that you
received a
warm welcome.

Around the corner you will find another staircase :

I've seen this before, again a very warm welcome :

The Panzerfaust (lit. "armor fist" or "tank fist", plural: Panzerfäuste) was a cheap, single shot, recoilless German anti-tank weapon of World War II (Wikipedia).

Eery...

Well, let's take a look up there.

Snapshot

I don`t think they invited you for a cup of tea :

LEFT ALONE WITH THE DEMONS IN TOTAL DARKNESS :

Look at the next picture, with the following in mind ;

at that moment I stood there all alone.

A friend and I went into the bunker, we were at that time

the only 2 people down there.

While I quietly looked around, my friend ran like crazy through
the bunker complex,
occasionally shouting at me that I had to come over to
wherever he was and look at something.

There was no light in here, so I had to wait for 2 decades
(in real time 2 seconds)
until the flash-light from my camera gave sufficient light to create an image.

And all this time I had to stay calm,
during that time I listened to falling drops
and water that seemed to seep into this part of the bunker.
(Also tried to ignore my noisy friend).