The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1945 along the western coast of Europe and Scandinavia as a defense against an anticipated Allied invasion of the mainland continent from Great Britain. Today, the ruins of the wall exist in all of the nations where the...
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(from the article `fortification`) ...the engineer who had designed the West Wall, and thousands of impressed labourers to construct permanent fortifications along the Belgian and ...
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Fortifications built by the Germans in World War II on the North Sea and Atlantic coasts of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway. They proved largely ineffective against the Allied...
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