Archaeological Discovery, 2016, 4, 125-142 http://www.scirp.org/journal/ad ISSN Online: 2331-1967 ISSN Print: 2331-1959 DOI: 10.4236/ad.2016.44010 September 9, 2016 Journey through the Defenses of the Festung Saint-Malo (FR)-1 Giancarlo T. Tomezzoli * , Louis L. Pottier Etno-Archaeological Observatory, Munich, Germany Abstract The Festung (Fortress) Saint-Malo was defended by about 500 German military structures constructed, in the period December 1941-June 1944, under the direction of the Organisation Todt. They diversify from simple tobrucks (Vf 58, Vf 61) up to the great bunkers of the Cité d’Alet. This article is a survey presenting some of them on the East side of the Festung, deemed of interest. Many of them remain visible and accessible and witness the confidence of the Germans in static military offensive and defensive structures. The Kullak artillery battery, the Pointe de la Varde support point, the Bastion de Saint Ideuc base, the Hôpital des Rosais base have lost their military value and because of their obsolescence with respect to the modern military doctrines based on a rapid first strike and precision bombing, they will never recover a military one. Their bunkers remain silent witnesses of a recent tragic period in the life of Saint-Malo. On the contrary, the bunkers of the Les Ormeaux artillery battery and the cisterns of the Ville Besnard logistic base are well integrated in the urban context and support the actual exigencies of Saint-Malo. Keywords Saint-Malo, Festung, France, Atlantic Wall, World War II, Military, German 1. Introduction The Festung (Fortress) Saint-Malo was defended by about 500 military structures constructed, in the period December 1941-June 1944, under the direction of the Or- ganisation Todt (Corlouer, 1965). They diversify from simple tobrucks (Vf 58, Vf 61) up to the great bunkers of the Cité d’Alet. This article is a survey not intended for presenting exhaustively all these structures, but for presenting some of them on the East side of the Festung, deemed of interest. In particular, the visits permitted to find many bunkers and so, indirectly, to feel the confidence that the defenders of the Fes- How to cite this paper: Tomezzoli, G. T., & Pottier, L. L. (2016). Journey through the Defenses of the Festung Saint-Malo (FR)-1. Archaeological Discovery, 4, 125-142. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ad.2016.44010 Received: July 27, 2016 Accepted: September 6, 2016 Published: September 9, 2016 Copyright © 2016 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access