The Defence Canal or Peel Canal was dug in the Peel in 1939 - from Griendtsveen - as part of the Peel-Raamstelling. The canal reaches as far as the Raam, a small river above Mill. It served as a drainage canal and anti-tank ditch, which soon gave it the name Defence Canal. On the west side, an 80-kilometre-long defensive line was built with minefields, casemates, barbed wire fences and trenches behind it. This was called the Peel-Raamstelling. At the beginning of the war, the railway line that was present at the time was provided with a hastily constructed asparagus barrier on both sides of the bridge at Mill over the Defence Canal.
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