Forests, wood and bunkers.

[TabsTabs1964]

It is certainly better if the work is done by Russian hiwis.



But in any case the Germans had good engineers and many carpenters and builders in their engineering and construction companies.






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Again all the soldiers wear a scarf covering the napes of the mosquito bites.



A group of soldiers laying the roof of their bunker.



Those who rest on this image are a group of Russian workers. Note that the structure of this house is supported by wooden pillars nailed to the ground. Also note the wooden scaffolding to place the highest rows of logs.





In these two images, what they are digging are wells.

[The Devil's Bank]

Must have been back breaking work, with all those mosquitoes, the heat, then the cold.

Superb thread, very interesting and gives us a insight into a soldiers life so far away from home.

I hope there is more to come, and I wonder how many of these structures have survived to this day?

I too, could look at these pictures all day long

[TabsTabs1964]

The truth is that we can find fortifications built with wooden logs of many types.


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This Sanitätsbunker is in my thread: "What's wrong doctor? Pictures of German doctors, paramedics, nurses and hospitals." #11



Surveillance posts

And even true fortified villages. An idea that in the early 1950s we will see again in French Indochina...



But both for the simplest shed and for any shelter. Two things will always be needed.





One: People who saw the logs.


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Two: People who know how to place the logs.

[TabsTabs1964]

Thank you all for your kind comments, which encourage me to continue.

I calculate that I have already uploaded 2/3 of the thread. But there are still many fantastic photos.

Santi

[HARRY THE MOLE]

A very interesting thread, and many thanks for taking the time to post it.

Cheers,
Steve

[CBH]

I really enjoyed seeing the step by step bunker construction, great thread.

[TabsTabs1964]

The Germans built perfectly equipped bunkers inside, equipped with heating stoves and bunk beds for the troops.
On the Leningrad front where positions remained stabilized for more than two years we see some examples of what the landsers called small houses.









..... If during the summer we build a footbridge over the stream....



..... When it freezes in winter, we can cross the stream without slipping



The wooden walls could be isolated from the ground by a thick layer of branches.



In the stalingrad area in the fall of 1942, before the Soviet siege, there were authentic small bunker towns dug into the side walls of the deep sandstone gullies typical of that area. Several authors describe the incredible services they had, including some with electricity, cast iron stoves and good furniture from the surrounding villages.

[TabsTabs1964]

Many officers and soldiers were photographed in front of their small houses to transmit to their families a good image of their living conditions at the front.
In some of these photos we see what German carpenters could do with birch branches.









Volkhov front



Volkhov front





The 5. Pz. Division, Bunker near Bereski, Mai 1942

[TabsTabs1964]

Another very common photograph is posing in front of your squad's bunker door, either alone or with comrades.

[TabsTabs1964]

We can see a few more.