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Westwall Remnants

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Westwall Remnants

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Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Border Path – View of Aachen loop from Steinebrück

14.7km

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2. Border Path – View of Aachen loop from Gemmenich

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3. View of Gemmenich and Belgium – Vaalserberg Three-Country Point loop from Hanbruch

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02:39

150m

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Oliver🌍

January 16, 2022

The Western Wall, also called the Siegfried Line (English Siegfried Line, French Ligne Siegfried) by the Western Allies, was a military defense system distributed over about 630 km along the western border of the German Reich, which consisted of over 18,000 bunkers, tunnels and countless trenches and anti-tank barriers . It ran south from Kleve on the Dutch border to Grenzach-Wyhlen on the Swiss border.

Hitler had the facility, which had military and propaganda value, planned from 1936 and built between 1936 and 1940. Shortly before, during the occupation of the Rhineland on March 7, 1936, contrary to the provisions of the Peace Treaty of Versailles, he had the areas on both sides of the Rhine, which had been demilitarized by the Reich as a result of the First World War, occupied by Wehrmacht troops.

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Westwall Remnants

1. Border Path – View of Aachen loop from Steinebrück

2. Border Path – View of Aachen loop from Gemmenich

3. View of Gemmenich and Belgium – Vaalserberg Three-Country Point loop from Hanbruch

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