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Please don’t worry, Germany is not trying to build another Atlantic Wall. The objects appearing with startling frequency on UK beaches have nothing to do with coastal fortifications. In fact, these are just harmless strandkörbe — wicker beach chairs. But how can something we don’t even have a word for become so popular among UK sunbathers? That’s simple — it’s no less stormy and windy on the coasts of Cornwall and Wales than it is along Germany’s rough Baltic and North Sea shorelines. And also because master basket weaver Wilhelm Bartelmann had a brilliant idea in 1882. ...more