The city of Carbonia rose in a completely remote area in Sardinia in 1938. It wasn't easy to think of a more striking name: everything here revolved around the coal mine, the first thing you see when you drive into the city.
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The city of Carbonia rose in a completely remote area in Sardinia in 1938. It wasn't easy to think of a more striking name: everything here revolved around the coal mine, the first thing you see when you drive into the city.
Just below Wissant, in Audinghen, the heavy guns of Battery Todt had a range of 55 kilometers, just far enough to hit England.
From September 1943, forced labourers excavated a vast underground tunnel complex in Mimoyecques on the outskirts of Calais.
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.
During the Second World War, the Germans built an observation bunker between Zuydcoote and Leffrinckoucke on top of the dunes.
Like the capital, Berlin, the German port city of Hamburg was fortified with two concrete Flak Towers ('Flaktürme' in German) between 1942 and 1944.
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