577 Border Construction

On the northwestern edge of the German Empire, there was the contested region of Frisia. Currently at the border where the Netherlands and Germany met, an emperor stood silently as he gazed through a pair of binoculars upon the construction of his mighty border defences. Surrounding this man was a contingent of officers, including a General who all scurried for the favor of their emperor.

If one were to describe the nature of these border defenses, they could refer to it as the Maginot Line on steroids. For example, the amount of steel-reinforced concrete bunkers that housed Schmidt guns, and artillery pieces across this 10-mile strip of land, was nearly a hundred. In between these bunkers was a series of heavily fortified trench systems where thousands of soldiers stood by watching, and waiting for the slightest disturbance within their vicinity.