Jutting out of the small French island of Ratonneau is what appears to be full cemetery resting on top of some ruins, but the field of crosses at this fort are simply the product of unfinished construction.
While construction of the fort began in 1886, the Fort of Ratonneau did not grow to its current size until the 1940's when German forces determined to turn the stone outpost into a heavy artillery embankment. The Germans expanded the structure outward and upward creating placements for massive barrel guns and other defenses. However the aspect that gives the place its iconic look are the exposed support struts of what was to become an ammunition shelter. The concrete pillars are shaped like crosses and just out of the structure like an industrial Golgatha. The abandoned fort may look like a burial site, but the only thinks that lie dead at this site are German military ambitions.
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