Battlefields

Hitler's Forgotten Bunkers (3x1)

Air date: Apr 21, 2017

Following an Allied attack on Dieppe in the summer of 1942, Hitler launched the construction of a huge command centre in France, intended to coordinate the defence of Europe in the event of a landing. Margival, a commune in the Aisne, was chosen. No fewer than 475 bunkers were to be built there over an area covering 90 square kilometres. The largest building, which was over 100 metres long, would be the largest German transmission centre during the Second World War.