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Skåne line bunker in Hittarp

"The Skåne Line (Swedish: Skånelinjen), popularly known as the Per Albin Line (Swedish: Per Albin-linjen) after then-Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, was a 500 kilometer long line of light fortifications erected during World War II around the coast of southern Sweden to protect the country from a possible German or Soviet invasion. It stretched from Halland across Skåne to Blekinge and consisted of two defensive lines:

 

First defensive line: concrete bunkers along the shore, armed with machine guns and light cannons.

Second defensive line: armed troops 300 meters inland behind barbed wire, some in concrete bunkers.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sk%C3%A5ne_Line

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