This concrete colossus is a monument of the municipality of Dinkelland. It was built by the Germans around 1941 to serve as a bunker during World War II. It belonged to a dummy airfield that the Germans wanted to use to deflect Allied air raids on the Vliegveld Twente - about 10 kilometers south-east of here. The Vliegveld Twente should be protected because at the beginning of the war the German occupying power had converted it into an extensive military complex called "Fliegerhorst Twente".

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