The Atlantic Wall in the Medoc

I took this photo near the holiday village of Montalivet (not particularly recommended!) a few weeks ago.  It shows one of many concrete and steel bunkers erected, as part of extensive fortifications, by the Germans during World War II between 1942 and 1944.

We go to this particular beach almost every year for a week, where we meet with fellow campers and old friends.  The beach is glorious and stretches for many miles.   There are three blockhaus there, at first up on the dunes and, each year falling a little more, now in the sea.  The tide washes in and out, sometimes submerging them almost totally, and sometimes revealing them … carcasses ? Memorials ?

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