These air raid sirens, remnants from World War II, were used as a cue for World War III. On alternate weeks, however, the same siren wailed for a longer and more menacingly three to five minutes at any time during the school day. Though always startling, it benignly announced lunchtime. The burst of sound lasted only a few seconds before fading into silence. At the same time, various other electronic screams echoed in the air. It defnitely is not on the public plans or the semi-public ones that list power, water and gaslines.Every day at noon, a chilling siren blared from a loudspeaker atop my public elementary school building. sealed it back up, still is there for when it is needed, don't even think the new owners know about it. Nope, a bunker that can comfortably hold 10 people - stocked with food from the mid 80's and looked unused. At first we thought it was a typical country-side underground conrete sewage silo. Case in point, when we bought our home in the mid 90's and were doing some digging in the garden, we found a giant concrete slab 2 meters below ground.

However, from experience, ALOT of bunkers are NOT publicly known. No, I just like to visit my 600 inhabitant birthplace in bumfuck-nowhere (Germany) every now and then and visit the old neighbours, you get asked to help carry up some cases of beer or whine and then you ask, 'hey, whats that giant vault, are you storing ww2-gold or something ?' ' nope thats just my nuclear bunker' you shrug and the conversation moves on.īut a quick google search provided the number of 2k public bunkers and 9k private ones (see: ) Instructions and advice on how to best do an AMA. Want to do an AMA or know someone who does? Message the mods! Comments should be on-topic and contribute.ĭiscussions are limited to events over 20 years ago.If a post breaks one of our rules or guidelines you will be informed about it. So it is perfectly normally for your post to not show up in the new listing. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyone's favorite figure of minor French nobility is!Īll posts will be reviewed by a human moderator first before they become visible to all subscribers on the subreddit. r/History is a place for discussions about history. Join the r/history Discord server to chat with other history enthusiast!

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