I was totally unprepared for the beachscape that is Denmark's western coastline. The entire length of the beach was littered with the impossibly massive remnants of German bunkers from WWII. Walls a full meter thick, cracking apart, rusting, sinking in the sand.
These bunkers, like most other reminders of the war, are a thorny subject for Danes. They were built by tens of thousands of unemployed Danish workers who didn't have much of a say in the matter. Denmark ultimately footed the bill and they certainly were not cheap. The Atlantic Wall costed more than 300 billion kroner, making it by far the largest construction project in Denmark's history.
I was totally unprepared for the beachscape that is Denmark's western coastline. The entire length of the beach was littered with the impossibly massive remnants of German bunkers from WWII. Walls a full meter thick, cracking apart, rusting, sinking in the sand.
These bunkers, like most other reminders of the war, are a thorny subject for Danes. They were built by tens of thousands of unemployed Danish workers who didn't have much of a say in the matter. Denmark ultimately footed the bill and they certainly were not cheap. The Atlantic Wall costed more than 300 billion kroner, making it by far the largest construction project in Denmark's history.
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