Between the trees and in the meadows, you will always find remnants of the hump line. The striking "triangles" are part of an old defense system of the German Reich. …

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The West Wall ran along the western border of the German Reich and was known to the Allies as the Siegfried Line. It consisted of over 18,000 bunkers, tunnels, and countless trenches and tank traps and was mainly built between 1936 and 1939. Source: eifelfuehrer.de/touristische-ziele/neuere-geschichte/panzersperren-am-westwall

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The west wall was! 640 km long

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Location: Scheid, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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