Media item

What remained of the submarine base

Week number 45-51

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:23
Publication date:
1 December 1945
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER455-HRE0000DE9A

The Germans built a verly large concrete structure in IJmuiden in World War II, which was used as an underground harbour for speedboats and submarines protected from air raids. Because of attacks from the Royal Air Force with special bombs not much more than great piles of rubble is left.