This post from War History showed up on my Facebook timeline. It’s a small album of pictures of the Atlantik Wall built by Nazi Germany to stop an Allied invasion. The defense failed. The Atlantik Wall was a huge effort on the part of the Wehrmacht using some 600,000 workers. Massive concrete bunkers and gun emplacements were built all up the Atlantic coast.
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/20atlantic-wall-images.html
The Germans naturally concentrated their construction on what they thought were the main avenues of attack, the Pas de Calais peninsula and other major ports believing that the allies would prefer to attack and capture a port as soon as possible. There was also the problem of Hitler’s pronouncements and requirements that cause an enormous effort in pouring concrete and building bunkers that were useless. Here are some links to more stuff about the Atlantik Wall.
http://www.rulit.me/books/the-atlantic-wall-1-france-read-352006-1.html
http://www.atlantikwall.co.uk/index.php
http://www.dday-overlord.com/eng/atlantic_wall.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisbecq_Battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longues-sur-Mer_battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisy_battery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regelbau
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