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The government began the demolition of six more bunkers from Hitler’s infamous West Wall on Thursday against the wishes of some German historians and war veterans who want the remaining concrete and steel fortifications saved as historic memorials.
The leader of the Third Reich built 20,000 bunkers, trenches and tank dugouts along a 940-mile line stretching along Germany’s western border.
Pneumatic drills pounded away on the first of six structures to be demolished this winter after the local government in the village of Rheinau complained the bunkers posed a safety hazard. The federal government worried they were potential gathering places for neo-Nazis.
