Things looked promising for the Allies. Following D-Day and the successful invasion of Southern France in Operation Dragoon, ...

To Germany he said again: its war will be over in 1944. Unless the Wehrmacht could show more than it had in France, no snow would fall on the Battle of Germany.

On Aug. 24, 1944, Hitler gave a directive for renewed construction on the Siegfried Line, and from September 1944 to March 1945, the Siegfried Line was subject to a large-scale Allied offensive.

The Siegfried Line was a defensive perimeter around the western front of Germany, littered with pillboxes — bunkers — tank obstacles, and other defenses designed to slow the Allied advance.

During one firefight on the Siegfried Line, a line of defensive forces and tank barriers stretching 390 miles along the German border, Rogers was discussing strategy with a soldier standing next ...

It was just about this time of year, mid-March 1945. We were approaching the German Siegfried Line, the formidable fortification above- and below-ground on the western border of Germany.

Operation Market Garden was the Allied operation to end the Second World War by Christmas 1944. The brainchild of Bernard ...

The Siegfried Line, River Rhine, Bremen, Germany, South Norwood, ... “We’re going to hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line” was a well-known popular song in wartime Britain before May 1940.

“Westwall (Siegfried Line)” (1968), at the Hirshhorn: “On one hand, it looks like a painting of some kind of monumental minimalist sculpture, but actually it is a painting of the Siegfried ...