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Tras la ocupación de Francia por el ejército Alemán en la 2 G.M. se construyeron 5 bases U-Boat en la costa francesa para atacar convoyes aliados
Early in 1940 the Germans realized the vulnerability of their open top U-Boat enclosures and decided to start building massive bunkers to guard their
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Saint-Nazaire’s German U-boat base still stands, and in it, France's Espadon sub. Here’s a look inside.
The basin entrance to the protected lock seen from the roof of the U-boat pens, with the original lock entrance to its right. The huge U-boat base at St-Nazaire was built between 1941 and 1942 by the "Todt” Organization and became home to the 6th and 7th U-boat Flotillas and was fully operational by October 1942. The main construction is 295m wide, 130m long and 18m high, containing 14 U-boat pens and later a protected lock for U-boats entering and leaving the basin was also built. As with other U-boat bases it proved impervious to allied bombing, though the surrounding port suffered very badly, leaving the base isolated. Realising that the bunker could not be destroyed, in 1943 allied bombing tactics switched to levelling the town and cutting the supply lines. Before doing this, the RAF dropped leaflets warning the inhabitants and fortunately the town was mostly evacuated beforehand. After D-day, German troops in the U-boat base refused to surrender and St-Nazaire remained under Nazi control until the last day of the war in Europe, 8 May 1945. Uneconomic to demolish and after years of neglect, today the U-boat base has udergone a transformation into an amenity and toursist attraction for the town. Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Nazaire www.uboat.net/flotillas/bases/saint_nazaire.htm
Albania's dictator Hoxha ordered the construction of 750,000 bunkers to protect the country. About 170,000 were built. Most are still in place and rotting away.
