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It is said that on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War, Nazi Germany had been preparing for this war of foreign aggression and expansion for many years, and with the domestic reform, the production capacity continued to expand, in order to resolve the increasingly intensifying contradictions in the country, the party leader Hitler had to use the war to divert domestic contradictions.
Germany, which was extremely overcapacitated, tilted productivity toward the military industry, and at the same time they created a set of "lightning tactics", relying on the torrent of steel, and within a few months the German army easily swept through most of Europe. After that, the whole of Europe was dragged into the quagmire of war by radical Germany.
In the early days of the Second World War, the Germans always relied on their military "black technology" advantages, undeclared war and raids, so that some small countries in Europe were temporarily powerless, and in this way, Germany was overwhelmed and occupied a large amount of land.
As time went on, the war advanced, and the World Anti-Fascist Alliance was formed, and the countries of the world formed a united front for the common goal, pointing the spearhead of the counterattack at Germany. Under the fierce counterattack of the Allies, Germany lost its advantage in the early days of World War II, and a large number of veterans were lost in battle, and they were forced to dedicate their offensive posture to a defensive posture, which can be described as a deflated leather ball.
In the middle and late period of World War II, in order to effectively resist the counter-offensive of the Allied western and eastern fronts, Nazi Germany built a large number of bunkers (which could be defended against aircraft) in some key places.
These bunkers they built were not like the ones built by the Japanese in China, and an Italian gun could easily handle them. The average height of the bunkers built by the Germans can reach 40 meters, and the thickness of its defensive walls can reach more than 3 meters, and the degree of solidity is self-evident.
These military fortresses of the German army can not only effectively block the Allied attack in battle, but also store a large number of heavy weapons and equipment and military supplies, etc., in a vain attempt to rely on these firepower to lay the foundation for the German army to counterattack in the future.
German soldiers relied on copper wall barriers and used a large reserve of military logistics materials, and hundreds of people were able to support themselves here for months.
In early 1945, the Soviets deployed about 240,000 troops to prepare to strike at the German anti-aircraft pillboxes. They first dispatched more than 400 heavy artillery pieces and bombarded german pillboxes for 24 hours, but the German bunkers were unmoving, and even in the face of intensive shelling, they were hardly damaged.
This was the stalemate until May 1945, when Germany officially announced its unconditional surrender, when the German soldiers, who had been cowering in the bunkers, laid down their arms, stopped resisting, and surrendered to the Allies.
After the end of World War II, the Soviets feared that Nazi Germany would resurrect and then rely on these bunkers to wage war against themselves.
So they sent professional blasting engineers to blow up the bunker with about 25 tons of explosives, but after they detonated the explosives, they found that the bunkers built by the Germans not only stood in place, but also did not cause any substantial damage to them after the explosion.
Soviet blasting experts were very unhappy to see the results, so they went back to prepare for a few months, and finally decided to drill hundreds of blast holes in the bunker, and then send dozens of tons of explosives into the hole to detonate.
In this way, under the roar, one of the relatively fragile bunkers was blown up, and the other "hard goods" were still standing intact, and the Soviets were helpless and finally had to give up destroying these bunkers.
Later, when the Cold War broke out and the United States and the Soviet Union began an arms race, the Yankees selected some of the forts left by the German army in World War II and transformed them into arsenals, and hid a large number of nuclear weapons in them.
In modern times, the world has been in a peaceful era, during the Second World War, the Germans built those military bunkers, has long lost its original military value, Europeans will be those military bunkers transformed into tourist attractions, often there will be tourists from all over the world to visit, play to take photos.
The Second World War is far away from us, but the pain and memory caused by this unprecedented war cannot be repaired.
As we all know, the development of human civilization will always be shrouded in the haze of war, so the people of all countries need to keep a calm and sober mind together in order to avoid the recurrence of historical tragedies.
References in this article: "The Complete History of World War II", "The Battle of the Soviet Union and Germany", "Global General History", "CNKI Related Literature - Bunkers Built by the German Army during World War II" and other related documents, "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - World War II, German Bunkers, Germany in the Late Second World War, etc."