Cap Gris Nez as part of the German base on the Atlantic Wall is also known as "Hellfire Corner". More than 2,200 shells were fired here during the artillery battle of the English Channel. The German battery "Großer Kurfürst" fired at England with 280mm guns, the British had the guns Winnie and Pooh.

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The German writer and later winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Heinrich Böll was also stationed at Cap Gris-Nez as a soldier in World War II.
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Location: Audinghen, Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Hauts-De-France, France

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