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The Siegfried Line 🇩🇪 – Hitler’s Wall of Concrete and Fear The Siegfried Line, known in Germany as the Westwall, was Nazi Germany’s massive defensive system along its western border. Built between 1936 and 1940, it stretched over 630 kilometers, lined with bunkers, tunnels, artillery positions, and thousands of anti-tank obstacles known as dragon’s teeth. It was designed not only as a military barrier—but as a psychological one. The line was meant to project strength, deter invasion, and convi

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12K views · 61 reactions | On 15 september 1944, 9th Infantry Division,39th Infantry Regiment and Combat Engineers cracked the Siegfried Line north of Aachen in Germany. | Joël Stoppels Battlefield Tours | Facebook

500K views · 10K reactions | Dragons teeth of the Siegfried Switch Line near Orscholz in Germany. We visited this today on the trail of a C Company trooper, 301st Infantry, 94th Infantry. A month of brutal fighting for limited objectives in atrocious weather, and (almost) completely forgotten in history. | The Battlefield Explorer | Facebook

In the fall of 1944, the U.S. First Army fought one of the fiercest urban battles of World War II — the Battle of Aachen. From mid-September to October 21, American forces encircled and stormed the first German city to fall to Allied forces. The fighting was brutal. Aachen’s natural defenses, and its position along the Siegfried Line, made it a fortress. Despite an ultimatum to surrender, German forces refused, determined to hold the city at all costs. After bitter, house-to-house combat, Aachen