💥Huge EXPLOSION! 💥Discovering a WW2 BUNKER Blown Apart in the Alps ⛰️ Mont Cenis

💥Huge EXPLOSION! 💥Discovering a WW2 BUNKER Blown Apart in the Alps ⛰️ Mont Cenis

In this video, we explore the remains of the La Court Battery at Mont Cenis, a hidden World War II bunker in the Alps. We are in France in the Alps at 2000 meters on the border with Italy We are walking to look for a hidden bunker in the Alps that was blown up with an incredible explosion during the Second World War. We will try to enter the hidden tunnels and find out how it was blown up. After a short while we find the remains of the abandoned barracks that housed the soldiers who were not on duty at the bunker The barracks has now become an excellent refuge for mountain crows! before arriving at the bunker we find an abandoned tunnel we enter it These military structures are now in France near the border with Italy But before WW2 they were on Italian territory and were built by the Italian government in the early 1900s with the aim of fortifying the border with France. on the floor of this long tunnel dug into the mountain you can still see the stones placed for the passage of the carts that transported the material and ammunition We’ll soon find out what’s at the end of the tunnel and discover that it takes us to the arrival station of the bunker’s service cableway The cableway that started at the Italian village of Ferrera Cenisio arrived here, which you can see down below (if you don’t suffer from vertigo!) and was used to transport materials, ammunition and soldiers from an altitude of 1400 to 2000 metres. We go out to look for the path to the bunker destroyed by the huge explosion along the old military road we find the first huge blocks of concrete thrown away by the explosion we find the remains of barbed wire fences that have resisted over time and among which now grow beautiful and peaceful edelweiss in the background you can now see the Mont Cenis dam and lake we finally arrive at the ruins of the bunker This is the La Court battery, a fortification in the Alpine pass of the Mont Cenis hill built by Italian soldiers between 1905 and 1910 and The battery, one of only four armored batteries in the Western Alpine Wall along with the Chaberton Battery, Fort Pramand, and the Paradiso Battery, was little used until the outbreak of the Second World War; its armaments, along with those of the La Court Battery, were not moved to the Eastern Front during the First World War but were left in situ to ensure defense against a possible invasion of the Mont Cenis Pass. the thickness of the concrete on the top exceeds 2m but despite this it was completely destroyed by a huge explosion. How was this possible? Huge pieces of concrete weighing several tons are scattered everywhere ! The bunker had two floors. On the ground floor were the technical rooms and the troops’ quarters. On the upper floor, there were the reserves and the spiral staircases that led to the wells of the four guns that emerged from the ground on the top. you can see the thickness of the concrete completely devastated by the explosion the kitchen and an above-ground warehouse The La Court battery was equipped with a dug trench lined with stone and with an internal embankment for riflemen and some machine gun emplacements all around the perimeter of the work. here are some writings engraved on the cement, these bear the date 1944, in that period it was occupied by the German army, in fact you can read writings in German these are the work of Italian soldiers more trenches with barbed wire During the Second World War, however, the battery’s armaments were among the most active in the Western Alpine Wall, as they were used for bombing both in the battle of June ’40 in the bombings against the French forts of Petite Turrà, Revet and Arcellins and, once conquered by the Germans, in those of 1944-1945. We are on the summit here there were four main wells for the four 149/35 A guns in an armored cupola and the opening of the wells containing the retractable guns was covered by a cast iron dome about 14 cm thick and shaped like a tortoise shell; the wells, with a diameter of five meters and a depth of two, allowed for excellent concealment of the fort’s armament. At the end of April 1945, almost at the end of WW2, the Battery was blown up with a powerful explosive charge placed inside it by the Nazis who were occupying it, now in retreat, to prevent it from being conquered by the Allied troops and, since then, only the ruins remain, which we see In this vintage photo taken from here you can see the 4 cannons and how it is now Now let’s try to enter the tunnels under the bunker here was one of the two powder magazines the ladder and the freight elevator to lift the ammunition the risk of collapses is high In the showroom, there are some recent candles, which certainly weren’t from that era. Why? The risk of collapse is high here, better to get out we find a secondary tunnel, we try to enter the bottom is steep and slippery…. everything’s ok…let’s continue we find animal bones The tunnel has another exit, we will soon make the last discovery above this gallery in an area close to the bunker we find dozens of engravings on the rock which are the work of Italian soldiers between 1910 and 1940 Thanks for watching, leave a comment and if you have any experience with military works, share them here, thanks for subscribing and leaving a like to support our project, see you in the next video

In this video, we explore the remains of the La Court Battery at Mont Cenis, a hidden World War II bunker in the Alps.
Once a strategic fortification during World War II, this bunker was destroyed by an incredibly violent explosion and abandoned. We take you inside this abandoned military structure to discover how it was destroyed despite being several meters thick with reinforced concrete. We’ll walk through its dark corridors, collapsed rooms, and the scars of history still visible today.

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