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    Siegfried Line (redirect from Westwall)
    The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall (= western bulwark), was a German defensive line built during the late 1930s. Started in 1936, opposite...
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  • Der Westwall (English: The West Wall) is a 1939 film about the Siegfried Line directed by Fritz Hippler, the head of the film division within the Propagandaministerium...
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    Adjutant a halt to all offensive operations and a withdrawal back to the Westwall (literally 'Western Rampart'). Hitler rejected this. Disagreement and confusion...
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  • It is housed in a bunker that was part of the former Siegfried Line (Westwall), the Katzenkopf Strongpoint (Panzerwerk Katzenkopf), which was built from...
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  • Westwall: Four Battles to Germany is a collection of four board wargames published by Simulations Publications (SPI) in 1976 that simulate battles in Europe...
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    on February 1–3, 1945, he directed an attack on the Siegfried Line or Westwall German border defenses on the German-Belgium border. The 26th Infantry...
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    outbreak of the war, the 7th Army defended the French border and manned the Westwall in the Upper Rhine region. At the start of the Campaign in the West in...
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    A blown-up bunker of the Westwall on the tank training area...
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    Organisation Todt and directed large-scale engineering projects such as the Westwall (Siegfried Line) and the Atlantic Wall. In 1940, he was appointed Reich...
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  • no. 307, December 2012, p. 77. Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Die Könige vom Westwall. Die legendären Protagonisten von damals im exklusiven Interview. In: Rock...
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    Emphasis shifted to military efforts. The first major project involved the Westwall (known in English as the Siegfried Line), built opposite the French Maginot...
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  • main contractor of Todt organisation and built concentration camps, the Westwall and Norway's Blood Road. The British Secret Service report concluded "[...
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    along which was meant to be the Ostwall, a line of defence similar to the Westwall (Siegfried Line) of fortifications along the German frontier in the west...
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    designs built in large numbers by the Germans in the Siegfried Line (German: Westwall) and the Atlantic Wall as part of their defensive fortifications prior...
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  • Preceded by Der Westwall (1939) Hippler Propaganda films Feldzug in Polen (1940) Succeeded by The Eternal Jew (1940)...
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    and taking full advantage of the fortifications the Germans called the Westwall, better known to the Allies as the Siegfried Line. The Hürtgen Forest cost...
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  • Grenzpolizeikommissariat Flensburg.1938 politische Überwachung der Arbeiter am Westwall. Sommer 1939-1945 stellvertretender Dienststellenleiter Gestapo Pardubice...
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    of the XXIII Army Corps (16 September 1939 - 15 February 1941) on the Westwall. He commanded 8th Panzer Division (20 February 1941 - 16 January 1943)...
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  • World War II; the Germans themselves called the World War II line the Westwall Siegfried (band), a heavy metal band from Austria featuring singer Sandra...
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    and built the fortifications on Germany's western borders, known as the Westwall or, in English, the Siegfried Line, between 15 June 1938 to 31 March 1939...
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  • "quadrigame") titled Westwall: Four Battles to Germany, but it was also released as an individual "folio game." While the quadrigame Westwall received good reviews...
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  • This article lists those elements of the Siegfried Line (German: Westwall) that have survived or whose function is still clearly recognisable. The structures...
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  • of the Bulge. The game was originally part of the four-game collection Westwall: Four Battles to Germany, and was also released as a stand-alone "folio"...
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    heavy casualties and taking full advantage of the fortifications of the Westwall, known to the Allies as the Siegfried Line. The Hürtgen Forest cost the...
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    Commander (ADC) of the 29th Infantry Division, headed to the German defensive Westwall. A small night patrol of the 109th Infantry began the division's protracted...
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    Gerstfeldhöhe) and is run in cooperation with the town of Pirmasens. The "Westwall" museum lies underground in the former fortification of Gerstfeldhöhe....
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  • : 151  where it served as a positional division on defensive duty on the Westwall (Allied parlance: "Siegfried Line").: 350  The division's commander throughout...
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    service did not interfere with those of the other. Air attacks east of the Westwall minefield were prohibited unless at the request of Marinegruppe West unless...
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    public works projects, including infrastructure for war, particularly the Westwall; new armed forces barracks; and the development of the Nims-Sauer Valley...
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    towards heavy infantry tanks capable of breaking through the Siegfried Line (Westwall) on the German border. In 1934, Sir John Carden of Vickers-Armstrongs had...
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