Atlantikwall photo contest
If you like photography or if you think bunkers are awesome, then you should participate in the Bunkerzoom Atlantic Wall Europe photo contest. Just go out and look for hidden treasures all over Europe and create your own image of this bunker heritage. Who is not familiar with them? Bunkers in the landscape, hidden under […]
In: Photography · Tagged with: atlantic wall, atlantikwall, bunkers, contest, erfgoed, heritage, photography, wedstrijd
Monuments de Chagrin
Over the years, numerous photographers were fascinated by the bunkers of the Atlantikwall. The big inspiration, I think, for all these photographers was the French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher Paul Virilio. His 1975 book Bunker Archéologie is a classic, and also the first to examine the concrete World War 2 structures in detail. […]
In: Art · Tagged with: architecture, art, atlantic wall, atlantikwall, bunkers, photography, virilio
Danish TV2 Nord produces TV-series about the Atlantikwall
Twenty interviews with people from Germany, USA, UK, Australia and Denmark. Nine 30 minute episodes. Danish TV2 Nord put huge effort in their series “Bunkerne”.
In: Denmark, News, Television · Tagged with: atlantikwall, bunker, bunkerne, bunkers, denemarken, denmark, documentary, geschiedenis, history, local, tv-serie, tv2 nord
Westwall moving in colour
This private film shows the Westwall in colour, starting with a rare 40P8 Sechsschartenturm during the construction of a bunker, large earth excavations, a shot of another bunker for Sechsschartenturm and officers around a table.
In: Photography · Tagged with: 40p8, bunker, bunkers, color, colour, concrete, sechsschartenturm, war, westwall, world, ww2
Regelbau, the photo series
Until the end of March and during July, August and September I’m presenting my photo series ‘Regelbau’ in Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, the Netherlands. It’s a study on the German standardized bunker from World War Two and its current state both as an historical object and a part of present nature. A fascination for modernist materials such […]
In: Art, Photography · Tagged with: arthur, atlantic wall, atlantikwall, beveren, bunkers, exhibition, expert, fotografie, national geographic, photography, regelbau, tentoonstelling
Regelbau 638 opened after 60 years
The most complete army battery of the Südwall at La Tamarissière (Agde) has the only built 638 hospital bunker on this side of the front. The bunker was closed since the 1950s but has been reopened this weekend by a local group of enthusiasts. Pipettes, syringe boxes, various tubes and even remains of unused glass x-ray […]
In: France, News · Tagged with: agde, batterie, battery, bunkers, heer, mittelmeerfront, mittelmeerküste, südwall, tamarissière
Denmark demolitions
122 bunkers along the Danish coast will be demolished in the coming months. This is because the concrete and steel remains pose a danger to the public. According to TH on Axis History Forum the following bunkers will be demolished: 1x L 410, 1x L 411, 1x 621, 1x 676, 5x 680, at least 62 […]
In: Demolition/Disappearing, Denmark, News · Tagged with: abbruch, abriss, atlantikwall, bunkers, demolition, denmark, disappearing, geschiedenis, historie, history, remains, sloop, verdwijnen
Landfront Vlissingen and bunkers in IJmuiden now protected by law
Great news for several bunker complexes in the Netherlands. Both the Landfront of the Verteidigungsbereich Vlissingen (except for the anti-tank wall in the east) and the batteries of Olmen and Heerenduin in the dunes of IJmuiden are classified as national heritage. It took over 10 years to come to this conclusion, but the persistance paid off. […]
In: Holland, News · Tagged with: architectuur, atlantic wall, atlantikwall, bunkers, cultural, cultuur, erfgoed, heerenduin, landfront, monumenten, olmen, rijksdienst, vlissingen
Alarming messages from Denmark
Ok, the story appeared on an engineers website but still it’s an alarming message. Without mentioning any historical value of the bunkers, Poul Erik Faurholm of CMP Demolition A/S makes a cold calculation on how the bunkers could be demolished. The only question is: “Who’s going to pay for this all”. I hope Danish government officials have […]
In: Demolition/Disappearing, Denmark, News · Tagged with: atlantikwall, blockhaus, bunkers, demolition, denmark, economy, heritage, history, monumenten, monuments, value
Epic Books: Duitse bunkers in Nederland, 1979
In the series Epic Books I discuss the books that either were the first in the field or the ones that inspired and mystified me. It was the time when the internet wasn’t there yet to look it all up, and when I still thought German bunkers were Dutch. This time it’s ‘Duitse bunkers in […]