Show: visit the Azeville drums with two actors!

Name: Show: visit the Azeville drums with two actors!
Start: 2022-09-17T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Batterie d'Azeville

Sarah Fuentes and Ludovic Chasseuil, authors, directors and actors of the Mad King company, offer a guided and theatrical tour of the Azeville battery.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 19:00Passed

Conditions

3€.

Registration

02 33 40 63 05 musee.azeville@manche.fr

A journey through time retracing the history of the Hauptman Hugo Treiber, commander of the battery. The actors were inspired by the study of his logbook, written during the Second World War, to discover the singular history of this man of the Occupation at the events of June 1944.

About the location

Batterie d'Azeville

Rue d'Azeville, 50310 Azeville

Manche
Normandie

The battery(drum kit) of Azeville is one of the first constructions of the Atlantic Wall in France. Having provided with four powerful blockhouses equipped with 105 mm standard(cannon) "Schneider", it covered coastal region manchois since the inside of lands. Azeville, Crisbecq (Saint-Marcouf) and Varreville established(constituted) the German batteries(drum kits) in charge of defending(forbidding) all sector. From night from 5 till 6 June, the battery(drum kit) of Azeville is taken to task by a group of parachutists fallen there by accident, then very early in the morning, it goes into action against the American disembarkation(unloading) of Utah Beach. She(It) delays then considerably the Allies which by-pass her(it). Finally, position falls June 9th after intense fights and rebounds: shootings(firings) on the battery(drum kit) of Crisbecq, bombardment by the battleship USS Nevada a blockhouse of which one of the shells crosses straight through without exploding, leaving behind him an impressive imprint always visible(obvious).
© Azeville battery