Word: aachen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detachment of neutral news correspondents, including five Americans, toured Germany last week from Aachen to Kaiserslautern, guided by German officers who happily, confidently showed them the wonders of the Westwall. The correspondents wrote marveling descriptions of the Wall's depth, complexity and strength; its clever tricks of camouflage; murderous traps for tanks and infantry; ponderous guns for long-range punishment of the Allies. "The Westwall will never be finished, just as a forest never ceases to grow," they quoted one general as saying. They gave the net impression that the Wall was, if not precisely impregnable, so immensely flexible...
...deepest concern to the Allies were German activities on the upper reaches of their Westwall. As far north as Wesel and Emmerich, where the Rhine turns west to enter the Netherlands, workers were observed completing casemates and tank traps opposite the neutral Dutch soil. Why? Near Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) just across the border from the Limburg point which runs down between Germany and Belgium, heavy concentrations of Nazi airplanes were reported, and heavy new concentrations of ground troops, apparently brought over from the Polish front...
...that from Germany's nearest points to England and the Channel she was planning an air war on British shipping, to back up her submarine attacks on Britain's food supply. But Allied and neutral apprehensions inclined toward the explanation denied by Dr. Goebbels. From near Aachen the great German juggernaut started rolling 25 years ago. Transit of the Lowlands has always been the basic principle of German war to the west. Nature made it so long before the Maginot Line was built...
...dense Ardennes forest, cross the Meuse and the Aisne northwest of the Crown Prince's Army, and sweep south toward Châlons. Other concentric arcs were mapped for the Third and Second Armies under Generals Hausen and Buülow, respectively, who jumped off from between Aachen and Trier. Hausen's objective before swinging south was near Namur on the Meuse in Belgium. Billow's course pointed for Maubeuge on the French frontier after cracking through the forts at Liége in conjunction with the First Army. That Army, mobilized north of Aachen...
...deep, built as a military obstacle with machine-gun and rapid-fire artillery emplacements along it. long the bank nearest Germany, all trees and underbrush have been removed to give a clear field for defensive fire. The confident Allied view is that if Germany should strike again from Aachen, the Belgians could hold her until French and British forces could come up at least to the canal and the secondary defense behind the Liége forts. In command of Belgian defense is General E. M. Van den Bergen, who has been busy on plans and works since the Belgian...