Or: Camp Todt – The pebblestone factory of the Nazis
During the war
The installation was mainly used for creating pebble stones,
These pebbles where then, used for building the “Atlantic wall”
On the picture you can still see the various parts, like:
- Part of the big wall, 2m wide and 150m long
- storrage towers
- part of the crusher installation
After the war
from 1946 until februari 1948 this pebbles factory was used for the reconstruction of various villages and city’s like Brest that was completely destroyed .
On pictures of 1947 you can see how the installation looked like.
Now
The installation itself is thorn apart a long time ago (1949), only the remains of the big concrete storage bunkers and the big wall still remain. Today it is a tourist war site
Source:
- Google Translate
- Wikipedia
