Thursday 5 February 2009

Atlantic Wall

“North of Norway all the way to the south of france, the Todt Organization constructed countless bunkers, symbols of the fragility of the Nazi State. This cryptic architecture became the marker for the evolution of Hitlerterian space. These concrete shelters ceaselessly proliferated and got thicker, an almost botanical sign of a constantly more rigorous climate. In the end these bunkers obtained the role of prestige monuments, witnessing not so much the power of the Third Reich as its obsession with disappearance.”

Paul Virilio

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