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/

[–] rotkehlchen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

They are left as a reminder of dark times. But they are also quite hard to dismantle.

[–] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I thought I remember hearing that they leave some of them around just as a reminder… But I could be making that up.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What is weird about that? If there is no reason to remove it, why bother?

[–] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

You’ve gotta love how much classier European graffiti is.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The desperate battle against the giant sea creatures was one of the most obscure episodes of the war.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

If you look closely, you can see a fossil in the stone there.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you seen this "Jolie" around the city?

Basically my question is: is that the writer or a shoutout?

[–] rotkehlchen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

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