Bunker Tour

March 2014

Duty of remembrance...
Concept which seems exceeded nowadays, even reactionary for some.
Even if I say cynically a war would be welcome to reset the counters to zero, it seems crucial not to forget that our countries were the scene of barbarity there is seventy years.
However, sites visited today are totally neglected and some have even been destroyed while they are direct witnesses to the butchery of WWII.
It's the same with German inscriptions still present in the Todt Battery : assholes were massacred these relics, although disgusting, but important. I still don't understand how can one assimilate graffitis as an art. For me, it's only vandalism.

Thus, in this beautiful sunny day, we visited the remains of the Atlantic Wall on the Côte d'Opale, France.
Implemented by the Todt Organisation (named by its founder, Fritz Todt , high-Nazi dignitary died in 1942), the Atlantic Wall was intended impassable and prevent the Allies to thwart Hitler's plans for the European continent. We know the rest. Built by French companies complacent towards the Nazis and a workforce composed of volunteers, prisoners and infiltrated resistants, the defensive line will prove useless and will have lived only a few years.
Sites seen today was completed in 1942. Two years later, it was over for the Wall.
Our journey will run from Berck, through Dannes to finish at Cap Gris Nez in Audinghen.
Obviously, many other remains are found along the coast.

Note that the remains of Berck can be quite... dangerous. Not by the state of conservation of bunkers but because of the locals. This results in a DNA spread around the ruins and it's better not to mess around with a Uv lamp...

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