Grossraumgefechtsstand Diogenes
Bunker diogenes build in the woods of Schaarsbergen, next to national park 'de Hoge Veluwe'. The bunker is build between November 1942 and July 1943. The bunker was in use of the command of the third 'Jachtdivision'. With his 60 mter long, 40 meter wide and 16 meter high and wall of 3 meter thick this is the largest bunker build in the Netherlands The bunker has three floors and in the middle of the building was a big room. In this big room grandstands were place and a very big glasplate with the map of the Nehterlands and a part of Belgium and Germany. On the map all the Airports and radarcomplexes are mentioned. During a airrade the exact location of the airplanes was mentioned on this map. With this information the german command was able to navigate the german airplanes to the enemy planes. Next to the bunker lots of offices were build. Today the bunker is in use by the national archive and partly as storage for park 'de hoge veluwe'. Very less which remembers at the war can be found in the bunker, but some details remain.
Offices build next the actual bunker.



Backside of the very big bunker.



Probaly somebody shoot at this bunker.



The flank of the bunker. 60 meter long and 16 meter high!



Here again you can see some damage from gunfire.



Entranceside of the bunker, the place of the ventilationgrage was during the war the entrance..



Stairs to the roof of the bunker.



Dieselgenerator which could give power in case of power faillure.



Ventilationparts.



Gasdoor.



















The original stairs. Lots of german officiers walked here years ago.



Entrance of the bunker.



German text.



Sign to first aid place.



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