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Inscription....any ideas?


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Peter (mebu), I hav attached an extract of an early war German map with Adinfer wood depicted. Is the bunker in question located underneath the worn spot (from frequent fingerpointing)on the very right edge of the wood?

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  • 2 weeks later...

I am still not ready to accept the word "Holland" for the first hyroglyph.

Another German word for this sort of optical signal station was "Heligraph or Heliograf". I could very well imagine the insciption starting with Helio.... but the rest does not fit at all. It is very difficult for me to think out of the box here as Adrian did so brilliantly with "Lichtspielhaus".

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I think I got something here: it is possibly not

Hollands

Lichtspielhaus

which always sounded surreal and strange, but

Hollunder

Lichtspielhaus

The German word Holunder is the name of a bush plant; Engl: elder.

In the time of the GWF the word Holunder was written with double L = Hollunder

So the translation into English language is: Elder Cinema which is quite a humorous jargon for a signal station amongst elder bushes

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Hi Egbert

Myself and other forum members visited Adinfer wood on 6th November, taking pictures of the bunker and inscription. When i am at home tomorrow i will add them into the topic.

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As promised, German bunker photographed 6/11/2012.

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close up of inscription panel

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