Blown-up Westwall bunker on the Schneifel Trail

Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Auw bei Prüm

Blown-up Westwall bunker on the Schneifel Trail

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Blown-up Westwall bunker on the Schneifel Trail

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Location: Auw bei Prüm, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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September 18, 2020

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From 1936-1944 approx. 22,000 bunkers were built along the former western border of the German Reich. These fortifications "Westwall" served the Nazi regime mainly for Propaga for at home and abroad.

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Unfortunately everything is closed and you can only look from the outside

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