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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Siegfried Line campaign was a phase in the Western European campaign of World War II, which involved engagments near the German defensive Siegfried Line...
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Siegfried Line Museum may refer to the following Second World War museums: Siegfried Line Museum, Irrel, housed in an old bunker at Irrel, Germany Siegfried...
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"We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line" is a popular song by Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy, written whilst he was a Captain in the...
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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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Noting that the Germans had given no indication of withdrawing from the Siegfried Line in front of the Seventh Army and that Patch thus might be in for a long...
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supported the Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group operations in the World War II Siegfried Line campaign, which ran from the end of the pursuit of the German armies...
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3rd Battalion, 33rd Armored Regiment (United States) (section Siegfried Line and Liberation of Aachen)
Division continued north to cut off the German's retreating towards the Siegfried Line. During the Battle of Mons they liberated Belgium's third largest city...
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the Siegfried Line. Dragon's teeth were used by several armies in the European theatre. The Germans made extensive use of them on the Siegfried Line and...
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745th Tank Battalion (section Siegfried Line)
March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2012. McDonald, Charles B. (1993). The Siegfried Line Campaign. Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History. p. 309...
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The Siegfried Line Museum at Pirmasens (German: Westwallmuseum Pirmasens) is a museum in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate that is housed in a former...
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The Siegfried Line Museum (German: Westwallmuseum Irrel) lies near the German-Luxembourg border in the Eifel mountains. It is housed in a bunker that was...
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It was originally designed to break through German defenses of the Siegfried Line and was later considered as a possible participant in the planned invasion...
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The Hindenburg Line (Siegfriedstellung, Siegfried Position) was a German defensive position built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front in...
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Edgar Feuchtinger (section Siegfried line)
Edgar Feuchtinger (9 November 1894 – 21 January 1960) was a German General (Generalleutnant) during the Second World War. Feuchtinger was commander of...
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ouvrages (works) List of Maginot Line ouvrages (works) Metaxas Line Rupnik Line Siegfried Line Footnotes German: Maginot Linie, [mˈɑɡiːnˌoːt-lˈiːnɪə]. There...
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an American 36-inch (910 mm) caliber mortar designed to breach the Siegfried Line and then used for test-firing aerial bombs during World War II. With...
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Poland, a much smaller German force manned the Siegfried Line, which was their fortified defensive line along the French border. On 7 September, the French...
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October 1944 the battalion was again engaged in bitter fighting on the Siegfried Line to the north of Aachen, Germany. Fighting continued until the end of...
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envisioned a line stretching from Antwerp via Maastricht to Metz and from there to follow the line of the Albert Canal to the Meuse and the Siegfried Line. Meanwhile...
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Jean Giraudoux Siegfried-class coastal defense ship of the German Imperial Navy SMS Siegfried, the lead ship of the class Siegfried Line, German defensive...
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smaller German force manned the Siegfried Line, their fortified defensive line along the French border. At the Maginot Line on the other side of the border...
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Sigurd (redirect from Siegfried (mythology))
Sigurd/Siegfried in his operas Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. Wagner relied heavily on the Norse tradition in creating his version of Siegfried. His depiction...
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effectively gain control over the area between the French border and the Siegfried Line and were to probe the German defences. The sector was defended by the...
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78th Field Artillery Regiment (section Siegfried Line)
and began preparations for the assault on the Siegfried Line. The plan for the breach of the Siegfried Line called for 30th Infantry Division to force a...
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and directed large-scale engineering projects such as the Westwall (Siegfried Line) and the Atlantic Wall. In 1940, he was appointed Reich Minister of...
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played a crucial part in the military logistics of the World War II Siegfried Line campaign, which ran from the end of the expulsion of the German armies...
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the Siegfried Line, but due to the poor terrain, lack of a road network with which to exploit the penetration, and no reserves to commit, the line was...
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Battle of Castle Itter (redirect from Kurt Siegfried Schrader)
Wehrmacht soldiers led by Major Josef "Sepp" Gangl, SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt-Siegfried Schrader, and recently freed French prisoners of war defended Castle Itter...
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in Belgium. Then on February 1–3, 1945, he directed an attack on the Siegfried Line or Westwall German border defenses on the German-Belgium border. The...
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