SZ Photo - German coastal for­ti­fi­ca­tions in France, Atlantic Wall, 1940-1944

03.03.1944 - A German department at the Atlantic Wall marching from their accommodation to the base. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.09.1941 - German soldiers building a bunker made of reinforced concrete. The iron interweaving and wooden casing is being replenished using concrete mixers. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.06.1940 - German anti-tank gun position in a bunker along the Channel coast. The gun is a Pak 37. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.02.1942 - Fire control center with sighting telescope at a railroad artillery battery along the Channel coast. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.06.1942 - Civilian workers making the wire mesh and the wood casing of the inner shell of a long-range gun emplacement. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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12.04.1944 - A local troops commander of the Wehrmacht and his staff on their way to one of the islands ahead of the Atlantic Wall. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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24.05.1943 - German coastal artillery battery at the Atlantic Wall. The workers sitting on the pipe are civilians. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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17.05.1943 - German bunker on the Atlantic Wall. The soldier left in the picture wearing his Zeltbahn (shelter-half) as a wrap for camouflage and as protection against the rain. [XPAEXPORTID000...
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28.12.1943 - Entrance to a hidden German gun emplacement. It is a captured French Canon de 75 modele 1897. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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30.03.1943 - Access roads in the hinterland of the Atlantic Wall which have been blocked by tank traps. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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08.02.1941 - Observation post of naval coast artillery along the Channel coast. The men use both conventional binoculars, and modern rangefinders. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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21.05.1942 - Twin-mounted MG 34 as a defense against low-flying aircrafts along the Channel coast. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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27.05.1944 - German soldiers block a road with barbed wire during an alarm training in the hinterland of the Atlantic Wall. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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03.05.1944 - Flooded parts of the hinterland of the Atlantic Wall. Therefore, among other, the landing of paratroopers became difficult. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.06.1940 - A heavy railway gun opened fire on a British convoy at Dover. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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01.07.1942 - German soldiers bring ammunition for a heavy railway gun. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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03.11.1941 - A German railway gun of the type 28 cm K 5 (E) opened fire on a British convoy. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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22.01.1941 - The southern extension of the Atlantic front, at the border to the Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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16.04.1943 - Gun dome of a heavy naval antiaircraft artillery on the Atlantic Wall, beside a soldier looks out for enemy planes. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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03.09.1941 - Bunker with anti-aircraft guns in the hinterland of the Channel coast. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.08.1942 - German soldiers during the installation of a heavy coast artillery gun. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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20.04.1943 - Drinking water reservoir protected from splinter and sight in a German position on the Atlantic Wall. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.08.1942 - A German coast artillery battery with 38 cm Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon) C / 34 on the Atlantic Wall. In the foreground a group of civilians accompanied by members of th...
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13.01.1943 - A German sentry in front of a gun on the Channel coast [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.07.1943 - Briefing of a Luftwaffe unit at the Atlantic Wall. The man left in the picture carries an MP 18. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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01.01.1944 - Sound detector of a German anti-aircraft battery on the Atlantic Wall. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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17.04.1943 - Workers of the Organisation Todt build a torpedo bunker. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.08.1942 - Members of a coastal artillery battery on the Atlantic Wall when washing their clothes. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.08.1942 - A German soldier with binoculars on the lookout for British ships on the Channel coast. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.08.1942 - An artillery observer of a coastal battery on the lookout with a telescope. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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13.03.1944 - A new steel and concrete fortification made of reinforced concrete is built by a pioneer company in the hinterland of the Atlantic Wall. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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10.05.1944 - Camouflaged machine gun position of the RAD, which was set up to secure a construction site. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.08.1942 - German artillery bunker on the Atlantic Wall. In the background, the command bunker. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.08.1942 - Artillerymen of the Wehrmacht firing a 15 cm field howitzer. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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26.05.1943 - A German bunker is built on the Atlantic Wall. In the background, concrete mixers can be recognized, ready to fill in the wooden siding and steel mesh. The workers are partly civil...
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01.07.1942 - German anti-aircraft position on the Atlantic Wall. The gun is a converted french Canon de 75 modele 1897. [XPAEXPORTID000001]
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25.06.1940 - A bunker under construction on the Atlantic Wall. On the roof a civilian worker can be seen. [XPAEXPORTID000002]
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25.06.1940 - A German 38 cm coastal gun on the Atlantic Wall, next to a guard post. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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