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Submarine base
“The base at La Pallice, intended for German U-Boats, was under construction and was to be infiltrated.”
The narrator, Guy-Pierre Gautier
When his grandfather Guy-Pierre Gautier was awarded the Legion of Honor in 2015, Tiburce Oger had a stroke. He wants to tell the life of this man engaged in the resistance during the Second World War. He then directed Ma guerre, de La Rochelle à Dachau.
When he was five years old, Guy-Pierre’s mother separated from his father and decided to leave for La Rochelle. He spent his childhood in Saintes, but most of his acts of resistance took place in the port city. One of the targets of his secret group was the new German submarine base established in the port of La Pallice.
If today, the place is forbidden to the public because of security problems, this base was used until the 1980s. She can be seen in the feature films Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen and Raiders of the Lost Ark by Steven Spielberg.
The bunker of the submarine base of La Pallice extends on a surface of 3,5 hectares.
Quai de l'Entrepôt
Huge bunker dating from the Second World War, the submarine base of La Rochelle sheltered German U-Boats during the conflict. It is located Quai de l’entrepôt in the city of Charente-Maritime.
This submarine base was built between 1941 and 1943 by the Todt Organization, a German company.
It was part of the famous Atlantic Wall that the Germans built during the Second World War to protect the coast. This bunker, then called the La Pallice submarine base, after the district of the city where it is located, housed the submarines (U-boats) of the Kriegsmarine. It could accommodate up to six of them.
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