Saturday 22 June 2013

Breaking the Westwall (Siegfried line) October–December 1944

Allied penetration of the western defences of Germany. The Siegfried Line an Allied label based on German World War I defences, known to the Germans as the West Wall was a system of defensive positions in western Germany. The Siegfried Line ran south to north from the Swiss border along the Rhine River to the area of Karlsruhe and then northwest to Saarbrucken; it followed the Saar River to Trier and then paralleled the German border with Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.  Read More Link

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