Brusand

Brusand is a village in the municipality of Hå, Norway. Its population (2005) is 384. Brusand is a train station on Jærbanen. Only local trains stop at Brusand (not express nor regional ones). Brusand has a beautiful beach, and a beachfront caravan/camping-site. Brusand still has the anti-tank obstacles erected along the beach during World War II. These are called Hitler's teeth (Norwegian: Hitler-tennene or Hitlers tenner), and were erected by prisoners of war and other forced labor, in order to stop an allied invasion of Norway. The Germans found it likely that an allied assault would happen on the beaches of Jæren, both for its close proximity to United Kingdom and because of the topography. They are made of stone and concrete and...