Machine-gun casemate 212

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Machine-gun casemate 212, at Allennes-les-Marais (Nord), is a reinforced concrete structure with a flat, terraced roof, built during the first quarter of the 20th century as part of the German defensive system along the Deûle. It has two entrances (south and west), each fitted with a concrete rifle rack with eight slots. The west wall has six loopholes for rifle fire, and a seventh is located on the projecting front of the east entrance. Originally aligned on a bend of the Deûle, with a pivot-mounted weapon for enfilade fire, it changed position relative to the canal when its course was modified in the 1960s. Blown up with explosives at the end of the war, it remains legible. It is decommissioned.