River casemate 1

A German soldier sitting on a chair at the river casemate I near the railroad in Willemsdorp. River casemate I was a Dutch casemate, built in 1936. The casemate originally had two loopholes facing the Moerdijk bridges. During the May days, the crew of the casemate surrendered because the Germans threatened a 16-year-old boy who was of the family living in the signalman’s house of the Dutch Railways a short distance away. The Germans aimed a pistol at him and called on the casemate crew to surrender. The crew knew the boy well and surrendered immediately. After the fighting in May 1940, the Germans made structural modifications to the casemate. Additional loopholes were added at the rear, and even a Tobruk was built. The next YouTube episode of the Bunker Artist extensively explains and shows how the casemate looked in May 1940 and the German modifications made to it: Youtube