Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Andrew Chatterton

πŸ‘€ Speaker
1692 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

There's little metal pegs in the corner of the shaft which you climb down.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Then there's usually like a blast wall.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So if the Germans had found it and dropped a grenade down the shaft, that would protect you from the blast.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So you'd kind of inch around it.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

A blast wall is like, so there's a wall kind of almost overlapping each other.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Right.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So you go down the shaft, you kind of go sharp left and then sharp right and then sharp left.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Correct.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So it goes into the walls rather than straight into that.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Exactly, Jake.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

I guessed that.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

so then you're into the main chamber where the bunks are so you'd sleep during the day and there'd be a table there's obviously no electricity down there so you'd be on like tilly lamps or candles

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

then as a different, into the next very small chamber where there's usually like a chemical toilet and there'd be, sometimes there's some form of kitchen, but obviously cooking isn't ideal because it attracts German patrols.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So they'd funnel the chimney up a hollow tree and then the smoke would disperse at the top of the tree line.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So there's no evidence that they're cooking.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

It is bonkers.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, it's absolutely bonkers.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Exactly.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

And it's also, if you're going out, so I'll describe the...

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Their role is they go to this underground bunker, then at night they would come up and they would have a number of predetermined targets.