Per Albin Line

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.

See also

• Swedish Armed Forces
• Swedish neutrality during World War II
• Scandinavian defense union