Buried amongst housing and a school on the east side of Dunkirk you can find two large bunkers which comprised Stp Dotterblume.
One is a R117a type - an early war Battalion and Regimental headquarters bunker – featuring 16 rooms with spaces for radio communications, an operation room, telephone exchange, officers’ quarters, crew rooms, and a close combat defensive machine gun embrasure covering the entrance.
It stands at the end of Allee Didier at the rear of a school and is no longer accessible but can be viewed from the road.
The second building is just a few streets away on Rue Marceau and is a R118c type, a dressing/first aid station. Built from 1943 onwards, they featured around 20 rooms including operating theatres, patient wards, media crew rooms, along with water and fuel storage plus a boiler for heating.
This huge construction can still be viewed from the outside but is now sealed so can’t be entered.