A concrete heritage: French Atlantic vestiges of WWII given new lease of life
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Eight decades after World War II, the Atlantic Wall is still breaking up. Along the coast of Brittany, in western France, lie more than 1,000 bunkers. Most of these vestiges of German occupation are abandoned, but some have been given a new lease of life. The submarine base of Lorient has become an ideal location for manufacturing carbon masts for yachts. Further west, on the tip of Finistère, a bunker has been transformed into a museum on the war. Finally, on the Crozon peninsula, a young entrepreneur has decided to convert a network of tunnels built by the Allies into a brewery.