Discover the History of the Atlantic Wall

  The Atlantic Wall was a massive fortification project undertaken by Nazi Germany during World War II. Built along the Atlantic coast from Norway to the Spanish border, the wall was intended to defend against an Allied invasion of Europe. Construction of the Atlantic Wall began in 1942, and it involved the deployment of thousands of workers, including prisoners of war and forced laborers. The wall was designed to be a series of interconnected bunkers, gun emplacements, and other defensive structures that would make an amphibious invasion from the sea nearly impossible. Despite the massive effort put into building the Atlantic Wall, it ultimately proved to be ineffective. The wall was breached on June 6, 1944, during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, when Allied forces landed on the beaches of France and began to push inland. While the Atlantic Wall failed in its primary purpose of stopping the Allied invasion, it remains an important historical artifact and a reminder of the horrors of