One often speaks about the " Atlantic Wall ", of this formidable construction of strengthened tiny rooms that the Todt organization, made build by cheap labour. But at the edge of the sea Méditerranèe it was the same, the Germans had less time it is all (invasion of the south on November 11, 1942). Of Chin with Collioure, the occupant made build a " wall of Méditerrannée " quite as impressive and, well on, with same labour.
It is as from 1943, that the German soldiers also had the role of protecting the coast and of setting up a defense without true mechanical means there because, within the framework of the construction of the Atlantic Wall, constructions on the West coast of France had absolute priority and the execution of the some work carried out in the south of France suffered from the lack of materials, of fuel and transport capacities.

Here the composition of the various sectors of the " Wall ":
Sector 19th Army - AOK 19. AOK = Armed Ober Kommando (Staff of army)
The 19th army, whose PC was located in Avignon, was made up of 7 coastal sectors of defense, covering the 864 km French coasts of the Mediterranean, from the Spanish border the Italian border.
Each division occupied a coastal sector of defense " Küsten Verteidigung Abschnitt ". Some of them were them-even divided into under-sectors.
19 KVA A / 272 ID : Port-Vendres , Collioure , Cap Leucate...
19 KVA B / 277 ID : Port-la-Nouvelle , Narbonne-Plage...
19 KVA C / 271 ID : Cap d'Agde , Sète...
19 KVA D / 338 ID : La Camargue
19 KVA E / 244 ID : Marseille
19 KVA F / 242 ID : Toulon
19 KVA G / 148 RD : Cannes , Nice...
Thus in Marseilles, of Bonneveine to the Roucas-White draws up an enormous concrete wall with, by places of the blockhouses, Goudes to the Madrague range, it is the same. All the littoral is evacuated, of Goudes until Pharo.

The concrete wall, range of Prado in front of the racecourse

Two blockhouses of the Red Point

On the road of Goudes, anti-tank walls
Madrague de Montredon

Blockhouses of the road of Callelongue in 1944 (photographs of files)

Tunnel of fold
(red input cross at the edge of the road)
Half-sunken tunnel

One can also see on the edge of sea, along the road, the foundations of the sites of large pieces of artillery.

Vestiges of the wall of the edge of sea

Nests of machine guns

All these constructions are in Escalette, along the boulevard Alex Delabre

Side of Goudes

The fort

Site of battery and underground

Blauckhaus

Overall picture of defenses overhanging the sea and Goudes

In the city

Blockhouse, used by the Municipality, with the corner of the Avenue of Prado and the Avenue of Marveyre.
It formed part of this enormous structure of defense which the Germans had built with the Borely Park and on the racecourse at the seaside.

This one is with the crossing of the Boulevard Ledru Rollin and the Path of the Madrague City.

There was also, all along the littoral, these very current standards of fortifications called Rundstand or Tobrouk. These devices knew many alternatives: for turret of tank, projector, station for light armament (machine-gun) or monitoring.

Plan (construction théorique)

Wall of the South (Südwall).

Mediterranean coasts: 550 guns between Marseilles and Agay. Assessment: pulverized by aviation, the rockets (30 000) and marine artillery (16 000 shells) the 15-8-1944 between 3. 50 and 8 H.