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The Skåne Line (Swedish: Skånelinjen), popularly known as the Per Albin Line (Swedish: Per Albin-linjen) after then-Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, was a 500 kilometer long line of light fortifications erected during World War II around the coast of southern Sweden to protect the country from a possible German or Soviet invasion. It stretched from Halland across Skåne to Blekinge and consisted of two defense lines:
In the Helsingborg area the line was reinforced with a second line of rear-facing machine gun tank. As a further enhancement was also a raid shelter consistent with the large shelter room for 24 or 48 man (called SK24 and SK48). This shelter line stretching from Ystad to the north of Helsingborg, and covers about 70's shelters.
At war in 1945 covered the military line of 1,063 different types of protection (shelter not included). The distances between each is 300–400 meters and most of them are located in direct proximity to the sea and are built after a somewhat similar model. (Applies to machine safeguarding of the immediate coastline) During the Cold War the line was strengthened further, with tank turrets with 7.5 cm gun placed in newly constructed tank designs.
Decommissioning began in the late 1990s. Each landowner had to decide what would happen with the military equipment on their property. Many tanks were sealed, a small number were razed. The liquidation is still (2008) not fully implemented and several stretches along the south coast remain. The "liquidation" referred to here is not "physical removal" of the reinforced concrete soon found everywhere along the coast of Scania, but that it is emptied of all military equipment. For instance, only a few of the bunkers have been demolished, to make way for housing. Today the forts are used primarily as artificial rocks for sunbathers in the summer.
In 2008 it was decided to keep 18 different tanks from the line in the Helsingborg area. These bunkers are now managed by the Military Preparedness Museum ("Beredskapsmuseet") and undergoing an extensive renovation. Starting in 2009, the bunkers were opened to the public. The refurbished bunkers were officially inaugurated on May 30, 2009 with battle demonstrations, firing salutes, fanfare and color guard processions.