Local resident Mogens Kock Hansen disagrees, writing in the local newspaper that “everything should be blown up.” He’s “disgusted that people want to attract tourists to this kind of garbage.”
The head of the Ringkoebing-Skjern museum, Kim Clausen, said that while the find “was not from the bronze age, what has been found is incredibly authentic and tells us a lot about how they lived in these bunkers.”
All of the objects from the shelters have been taken to the conservation center at Oelgod museum, some 30km from the beach, to be examined.
The center’s German curator Gert Nebrich judged the find “very interesting because it is so rare.”
“We don’t expect contemporary objects like these to be so well preserved. Maybe it’s because they were kept for 60 years in the cold and dark like in a big vacuum,” he says, carefully showing four stamps featuring Hitler’s image and the German eagle.
They were used by soldiers to “send Christmas presents to their families in 1944,” which consisted mostly of packets of Danish butter, Anthonisen says.
“World War II and its memories will not just go away. And discoveries like these breathe new life into the story and the fascination that still surrounds this war,” the local newspaper, Dagbladet Ringkoebing-Skjern, wrote in an editorial recently.
That is why the bunkers need to be preserved, it said, adding: “They are part of our common European history.”
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