Hauts-de-France
During the Second World War, the German "Organization Todt" rebuilt a French artillery battery in the dunes of Fort Vert, close to Calais.
Atlantikwall
The German army built a defense line along Europe's beaches from 1942 onwards to discourage an Allied attack: the Atlantikwall. Defending Europe's coasts was a daunting task. From Norway through Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France, the coastline measured almost five thousand kilometers. The German army, therefore, concentrated on the most likely places for an Allied invasion: Normandy and Calais.
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Hauts-de-France
The German army misled the Allies by building a fire control post near Oye in the shape of a church tower.
Hauts-de-France
One of the dunes of Blériot-Plage, west of Calais, was crowned with a command post in the autumn of 1943. The coastal batteries of Waldam, Oldenburg, Bastion II, Fort Lapin, Sangatte and Lindemann were controlled from here.
Hauts-de-France
During the Second World War, the Germans built an observation bunker between Zuydcoote and Leffrinckoucke on top of the dunes.
France
Pointe du Hoc, a promontory littered with craters and concrete blocks, stands out between Utah Beach and Omaha Beach, two of the five beaches where the Normandy landings took place on June 6, 1944.
Hauts-de-France
For 75 years, the North Sea has been pounding into two bunkers at the Martha infantry support point, a German complex on the beach of Escardines that was part of the Atlantic Wall.
Zeeland
At the beginning of October 1944, the British Air Force bombed the sea dike at Ritthem in the Netherlands. The aim was to flood Walcheren and force away the German army.
Zeeland
The German army spared no expense to make the eleven bunkers of Stützpunkt Groede resemble a cosy Dutch village.
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