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The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom, during World War II.
Festung Norwegen (transl. Fortress Norway) was the extensive defense and fortification system constructed in Norway, part of the Atlantic Wall, after the conquest and occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany in World War II. [1]
Fortress Europe: The Atlantic Wall Guns. Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 0-88740-525-8. Harald Isachsen "The Adolf Guns" In the batteries at Dietl/Steigen, Theo/Trondenes, Lindemann/Calais, Schleswig-Holstein/Hel, ISBN 978-82-998024-0-6
The Atlantic Wall: Atlantic Wall: 2: U-Boat Base: Lorient U-boat base: 3: V2 Rocket Bases: ... Hitler's Mediterranean fortress: Operation Mincemeat, Allied invasion ...
“Hitler’s Atlantic Wall cracked in the first hour under tempestuous Allied assault," he wrote. On Omaha, the deadliest invasion beach, AP's Whitehead lost his bedroll and equipment and nearly ...
On 19 January 1944 Adolf Hitler declared eleven places along the Atlantic Wall to be fortresses , to be held until the last man or the last round, calling them Atlantikfestungen (lit. "Atlantic strongholds"). [1]
The following is a list of the Führer directives and Führer Orders issued by Adolf Hitler over the course ... Command Organization of the Coasts Atlantic Wall; [9 ...
They were famously part of Nazi Germany’s “Atlantic Wall,” along the French coast, in a bid to obstruct the Allies from landing on beaches ahead of D-Day. They were widely used by armies ...