Malise Ruthven on the Atlantic Wall, the massive chain of defenses built by the Germans between 1940 and 1944 to protect Europe from Allied invasion: In barely two years it consumed more than 17 million cubic meters of concrete, depriving Hitler’s armaments factories of more than a million metric tons of iron. To Albert Speer, it had been an exercise in futility: “All this expenditure of effort was sheer waste.”
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 16:59:00 +0000
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