Building the WWII defensive line; German aircraft

Identifier
irn562209
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-60.1981
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Jack Penman

Scope and Content

Reel 1, Siegfried Line elevators, rooms, tunnels, showers, toilets, telephone switchboards, electric power generators, antitank guns in its arsenals, munitions dumps, artillery. antiaircraft guns, and searchlights. Troops with listening devices. Messerschmidt planes take off from an airfield.

Note(s)

  • The Siegfried Line was a defense system stretching more than 630 km (390 mi) 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. Adolf Hitler planned the line from 1936 and had it built between 1938 and 1940. In English, "Siegfried line" commonly refers to this World War II defensive line opposite the French Maginot Line; the Germans called this the "Westwall."

Subjects

  • WORKERS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
  • WEAPONS/ARMS
  • AIRPLANES
  • GERMANY
  • CONSTRUCTION

Places

  • , Germany

Genre

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