New WW2 Wantzenau museum in Alsace! 120 vehicles + much more!!.

The new Wantzenau museum is open ! Look at he video, 120 vehicles, including tanks, aircraft, a U-boot etc...!

https://youtu.be/-l0FNItRBVY

 

Wow, it looks awesome!

 

Great post Skipper, lots of activity in Alsace from the Colmar Pocket to Haguenau and West into Lorraine. I'm pretty sure I will not make it back to the area but urge anyone that can to go..

I found these images using your title and thought all of them are not in that area many are..

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=new+ww2+wantzenau+museum+in+alsace&id=373785E66A71A0491B5B9A27B8348E7F8800A36E&FORM=IQFRBA


Gaines

 

What's that tank at the start of the video outside of the building?
The plane is a Bücker 181, isn't it?

Near Straßbourg, for me only 2 hours with the car. I will visit it for sure!

 

ARL44

 

Not an WW2-tank then.
The tracks and the hidden suspension looked french.

 

OhneGewehr, If you are going to Strasbourg you might want tom make a stop at Niederbronn-les-Bains, just North of there. It is a pretty little spa town and on it's eastern edge is a WW2 cemetery that has just over 15.000 German soldiers buried there.

Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof in Niederbronn-les-Bains

And a brief and interesting history as to why they are all unmarked.

http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/1874/German-War-Cemetery-Niederbronn-les-Bains.htm.

Alsace, having gone back and forth between France and Germany is rather fascinating as an area. Strasbourg as you probably well know is divided into a German section and a French one, the French side being more laid out along roads and waterways dating back centuries and is a sort of random romantic city. the German side, newer, is very orderly and based on classicism.

I envie you being so close. take lots of pictures !

Gaines

 

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The ARL44 was a French tank design that was worked out during the war, and finalized right at the end of the war. Although, produced after the war, it was very much a WW2 design.

 

Another place to add to the bucket list.

Thanks for posting, looks to be a very impressive WW2 museum.

 

Thanks Gentlemen. Yes Alsace has a ot of things to show. There are tanks on display at Mulhouse ( a Sherman at the odl caserne) and at Kinetzheim for example. Regardign this new museum, it is one private collection. It took the man decades to gather all this and he bough tthe building in 2010, but it took another 7 years for him to get the work done and get all the permissions, space, money etc... it's a great opportunity to get to see some nice militaria.

 

Idon't think the plane is a Bücker (see the areation hole at the front , like the Stuka had, the Bûcker does not have it ).



I was thinking about an Me 108

 

Neither of you are 100% correct, but Skip is the closest.
But, don't feel so bad...You see, the nose wheel is not down, thereby giving the impression that thiis aircraft is a tail-dragger.

The air scoop and exhaust pipes runniing along the underside are rather unique.
The aircraft in question is a Nord Noralpha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Noralpha

 

Gosh , how on earth could I have guessed that one? Thanks Takao.

 

At first glance, I thought it was a Bf-108 too - given the "german" paint job and Messerschmidt look, but the nose section just wasn't right.

 

Yes, it was tough identifying that little bugger. Fun though.