| Summary: | THE ATLANTIC WALL LINEAR MUSEUM PROJECT Conversation between Gennaro Postiglione and Francesco Lenzini The Atlantik Wall, understood as a fortified Atlantic coastal infrastructure system erected by the Nazis during World War Two is effectively one-of-a-kind in size and complexity terms. It is a monumental work which Hitler intended to safeguard the section of Atlantic coast stretching from the Pyrenees to North Cape from the much feared Allied landings. This immense defensive line was to have been composed of around 15,000 buildings (of which only around 12,000 were effectively built) set out strategically along the nearly 6000 km of European Atlantic coast (with the exception of Spain and Portugal) both of which were effectively neutral during the war, penetrating several kilometers inland on average. It involved more than thirteen million cubic meters of concrete organized according to a scattered and discontinuous logic. It was a huge and constantly evolving building site which required very detailed planning entrusted to Organization Todt on one hand and, on the other, millions of men, some of whom were from occupied countries condemned to hard labor and interned in special concentration camps.
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