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 actions near the German defensive Siegfried Line...
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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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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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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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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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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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The Hindenburg Line (German: Siegfriedstellung, Siegfried Position) was a German defensive position built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western...
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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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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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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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effectively out of men and equipment, and the survivors retreated to the Siegfried Line. Allied forces eventually came to more than 700,000 men; from these...
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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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Battle of Hürtgen Forest (category Siegfried Line campaign)
the Battle of Aachen, where the US forces were fighting against the Siegfried Line network of fortified industrial towns and villages speckled with pillboxes...
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ouvrages (works) List of Maginot Line ouvrages (works) Metaxas Line Rupnik Line Siegfried Line Footnotes There are 58 ouvrages, 311 casemates, 78 shelters...
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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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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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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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engaged in Poland, a much smaller German force manned the Siegfried Line, their fortified defensive line along the French border. On 7 September, the French...
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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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tasked with protecting the corps' left flank, probing the Siegfried Line (a German fortification line on the Franco-German border), and following up the 2nd...
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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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developed for the task of clearing heavily fortified areas such as the Siegfried Line and as a result favoured armour protection over mobility. Although heavy...
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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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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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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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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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They stopped even before reaching Germany's unfinished Siegfried Line. According to General Siegfried Westphal, a German staff officer on the Western Front...
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Siegfried Fischbacher (June 13, 1939 – January 13, 2021) and Roy Horn (born Uwe Ludwig Horn; October 3, 1944 – May 8, 2020) were German-American magicians...
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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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