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The Siegfried line was a the German line of Defence in WW2. The defenses included anti tank traps, such as dragons teeth. The line also included over 18,000 bunkers and tunnels. During the crossing of the Siegfred line by the American forces they used dirt to bypass the the dragons teeth and enter into Nazi Germany.

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  • Siegfried Line
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  • The Siegfried line was a the German line of Defence in WW2. The defenses included anti tank traps, such as dragons teeth. The line also included over 18,000 bunkers and tunnels. During the crossing of the Siegfred line by the American forces they used dirt to bypass the the dragons teeth and enter into Nazi Germany.
  • The original Siegfried Line () was a line of defensive forts and tank defenses built by Germany as a section of the Hindenburg Line 1916–1917 in northern France during World War I. In English, Siegfried line more commonly refers to the similar World War II defensive line, built during the 1930s, opposite the French Maginot Line, which served a corresponding purpose. The Germans themselves called this the Westwall, but the Allies renamed it after the World War I line. This article deals with this second Siegfried line.
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  • ALLIES PIERCE SIEGFRIED LINE ETC.
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  • The Siegfried line was a the German line of Defence in WW2. The defenses included anti tank traps, such as dragons teeth. The line also included over 18,000 bunkers and tunnels. During the crossing of the Siegfred line by the American forces they used dirt to bypass the the dragons teeth and enter into Nazi Germany.
  • The original Siegfried Line () was a line of defensive forts and tank defenses built by Germany as a section of the Hindenburg Line 1916–1917 in northern France during World War I. In English, Siegfried line more commonly refers to the similar World War II defensive line, built during the 1930s, opposite the French Maginot Line, which served a corresponding purpose. The Germans themselves called this the Westwall, but the Allies renamed it after the World War I line. This article deals with this second Siegfried line. The Siegfried Line was a defence system stretching more than with more than 18,000 bunkers, tunnels and tank traps. It went from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of the old German Empire as far as the town of Weil am Rhein on the border to Switzerland. More with Nazi propaganda in mind than for any strategic reason, Adolf Hitler planned the line from 1936 and had it built between 1938 and 1940.
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