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The bunker is no more, it has been built over / razed in order to make room for a new container-terminal
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Hmmm. Kinda sad, in a way - that the boats were never salvaged. But I understand the need to develop, despite the historical artifacts in situ.
I imagine it is quite a balancing act in Europe - preserving historical sites vs. the need for appropriate land use. I understand that all over Belgium and Northern France there is quite a bit of development that is happening over the old western front battlefields. A number of the important ones are being preserved, but otherwise they are disappearing. The upside of the digging is that quite a few WW I dead are turning up and are being properly interred, even if they are unidentifiable.
That issue is also quite prominent in the Eastern USA where a number of Civil War battlefields are being 'developed'.