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Switzerland Opens Its Underground Mountain Forts To Cameras
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keywords: switzerland, buried mountain forts, maginot forts
Synopsis: In a rare camera-access event Switzerland shows its Maginot Forts cleverly camouflaged and built deep into its mountains making them literally impregnable to attack...(read more)
- Date: 1949
- Duration: 00:01:15
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Switzerland
Switzerland Opens Its Underground Mountain Forts To Cameras
Celebrating 658 years of independence, the tiny Alpine republic of Switzerland shows these first films of the mountainous "Maginot" forts with which it intends to preserve its age-old freedom. Scenes of one of over 100 secret forts buried deep in the heart of the Alps.
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- Newsreels: 1949 - August 22
