The World War Two bolt hole that remained hidden for 70 years until curious Norwegian students looked behind a panel in their attic



A map of Britain and northern France was pinned on the walls of the room

The attic had a light labelled 'alarm' to warn those inside of intruders



A group of Norwegian students discovered a Second World War hideout behind a panel in the attic of their shared house following a tip-off from their landlord.



The secret doorway, found as the group took a break from their studies, led to a room containing a table, an alarm and a map showing Britain and northern France on the walls.



A note written in Norwegian warns: 'If you have a bad stomach, you do not have access.'

Hidden: The secret room lay hidden behind a partition in the attic of a Norwegian house



Surprise: The narrow room contained an alarm and a sign in Norwegian Warning: The message loosely translates to 'If you have a bad stomach, you do not have access' Charts: A map of southern Britain and northern France was taped to the wall of the hidden room The student, who posted the images on Reddit under the username mYNDIG, said: 'Our houselord told us that there might be a hidden room there, and what else to do when you should study for exams than actually go and look?

'Took us damn long time, and was found by accident when one of the people I live with just stretched out and the wall moved.' RELATED ARTICLES Previous

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Next Is this Amelia Earhart’s plane? Sonar image from uninhabited... That’s a bolt from the red, orange, yellow, green, indigo,... Share this article Share He described finding the room as 'the best prize'. The bolt hole discovery will remind many of teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family, who hid in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years before they were captured by the Gestapo and sent to concentration camps.

Alarm: A warning light was wired onto the wall of the room Doll: The students also found this solitary toy shoe in the attic

Empty: The attic appears to be completely normal

Opening: The room was discovered when one of the student's housemates leant on the wooden panel Other Reddit users suggested that the room has been used for listening to the BBC during World War II or as a hiding place.

One wrote: 'Norwegians would listen to English BBC radio and then make underground newspapers to spread news of how the war was truly going (the Germans only spread propaganda).' While another said: ' Rooms this size were often used to hide a lot more people than you would expect. It was probably used by a whole family.' WAS THE ATTIC ROOM A WARTIME HIDEOUT SIMILAR TO ANNE FRANK'S?

Anne Frank hid with her family in an attic in Amsterdam for two years - Reddit users speculated that the Norwegian find could have been a similar bolt hole The Norwegian attic find posted on Reddit led to suggestions that the room was used as a hideaway similar to that by diarist Anne Frank.

Anne and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic for two years before they were captured by the Gestapo. Their whereabouts had been betrayed by a supposed friend. They had arrived in the Netherlands in 1933 after leaving Germany.

Only Anne's father Otto survived the concentration camps. Anne and her sister Margot both died of typhus while being held prisoner in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne died at the age of 15, only two weeks before the camp was liberated.

The teenager's diary, which she began writing in 1942, was discovered in the Amsterdam attic by a family friend Miep Gies and returned to Otto Frank. He edited and published the diary two years after the end of the Second World War.

It has since been published in 60 different languages, translated from its original Dutch, and is a popular book for school students. The Franks' hiding place later opened to the public as Anne Frank House, a museum, in 1960.



Panel: The secret room lay hidden behind this innocuous wooden panelling

Attic: The student documented his mission into the loft of his house to find the room

Step-by-step: The ladder leading up to the attic where the student found the hidden room