Abstract
In previous publications, some WWII German military structures around Angers (FR): at Murs-erigne, the Domaine de Pignerolle and Bouchemaine, during the German Occupation period were described and analyzed. The discovery in 2014 in a private archive of a French Resistance map dated 1942 showing further German military structures on the right side of the Maine and a plan of a large bunker in La Reux at Saint-Barthelemy d’Anjou forced the resumption of the researches about German military structures in the Angers sector. The Angers sector retreated from other WWII German more sensitive military sectors in France and less exposed to allied air attacks, offered for a quite long time, during the Occupation, a quiet place for developing military activities. The visits on the sites permitted, at about seventy years from the end of the WWII, to better understand the purpose and estimate the preservation state of the surviving structures.
Highlights
Angers, in North-West France, played during the WWII an important role as witnessed by German military structures erected at of Mûrs-Erigné (Suquet, 2010; Tomezzoli, 2016), the Domaine de Pignerolle (Tomezzoli et al, 2013) and Bouchemaine (Tomezzoli, 2018)
The Angers sector retreated from other WWII German more sensitive military sectors in France and less exposed to allied air attacks, offered for a quite long time, during the Occupation, a quiet place for developing military activities
Doctor Saby and some other hundred officers and soldiers (Suquet, 2009). They were installed at the Saint-Pierre castle, residence of the Admiral, the “Bank”, the castles of Bessonneau (47 ̊28'16.2''N, 0 ̊32'19.51''W), Jau (47 ̊24'3.1''N, 0 ̊31'58.0''W), Garenne (47 ̊24'13.0''N, 0 ̊31'52.4''W) and other requisitioned properties in Mûrs-Érigné as the mansion “Ma Normandie” (47 ̊24'13.3''N, 0 ̊31'40.2''W) at the entrance of the actual rue des Fusillés, which welcomed in its hotel-restaurant and luxury brothel German officers serving in the Angers sector (Suquet, 2009)
Summary
In North-West France, played during the WWII an important role as witnessed by German military structures erected at of Mûrs-Erigné (Suquet, 2010; Tomezzoli, 2016), the Domaine de Pignerolle (Tomezzoli et al, 2013) and Bouchemaine (Tomezzoli, 2018). Saint-Barthelemy d’Anjou that forced the resumption of the researches about the German military structures in Angers in the period of the Occupation with the integration of materials collected in the past
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