Per Albin Line
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The Per Albin Line was a 500 kilometer long line of fortifications erected during World War II around the coast of southern Sweden to protect the country from a possible German invasion. It was nicknamed after then Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson and stretched from Halland across Skåne to Blekinge and consisted of two defense lines:
- First defense line: machine-gun armed concrete bunkers along the shore (several of which still remain)
- Second defense line: armed troops 300 meters inland behind barbed wire, some in concrete bunkers.