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Siegfried Line
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Siegfried Line

In World War I, a defensive line established in 1917 by the Germans in France, really a subdivision of the main Hindenburg Line; in World War II, the Allies' name for the West Wall, a German defensive line established along its western frontier, from the Netherlands to Switzerland.
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