'Exploring The Nazi Mega Bunkers Of Hitler's Atlantic Wall'
War historian James Rogers travels to northern France to explore the gigantic Todt Battery. Also known as Batterie Todt, it was a battery of coastal artillery built by Nazi Germany in World War II, located near Cape Gris-Nez in the Pas de Calais, France.
Originally called Siegfried Battery, it was renamed in honour of the German engineer Fritz Todt. It was later integrated into the Atlantic Wall, the line of defences Hitler believed would repulse an Allied amphibious invasion of mainland Europe.
The Todt battery had been been able to shell the port of Dover as well as Allied shipping in the English Channel throughout the war, but it fired for the last time on 29 September 1944 after an intense aerial bombardment and assault by Canadian infantry.
James explores the cavernous remains of the bunker, where huge naval guns operated under an armoured turret. He also heads down into the warren of tunnels behind the battery, where the German garrison left the walls covered in graffiti.
