- one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish1 month
It’s so weird that those things haven’t been properly dismantled yet. In the 80s/90s they were filled with empty beer bottles and trash.
- 1 month
We have thousands of them remaining today. And usually buried in sand or in the ocean. That would be too expensive to remove because it’s a blockhaus (quite sturdy) and the sand + salt ruin the tools and engines used to destroy them.
And more importantly: it’s part of our history. We still keep our old castles so why not keep that. It’s a good reminder too.
Here a map of more than 2000 remaining blockhaus : https://www.cestenfrance.fr/cartographie-du-mur-de-latlantique/
- 1 month
I thought I remember hearing that they leave some of them around just as a reminder… But I could be making that up.
- 1 month
They are left as a reminder of dark times. But they are also quite hard to dismantle.
- Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish1 month
The desperate battle against the giant sea creatures was one of the most obscure episodes of the war.
- 1 month
Have you seen this “Jolie” around the city?
Basically my question is: is that the writer or a shoutout?
- 1 month
There is another one signed “jolie” on the other side. I think it’s the writer.
If it interests you: I also saw some tags by akse ameise in flanderen and they are from Cologne in Germany


