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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prelude to 1939. For the kind of warfare that Germany is now waging, preparations are twofold, and the first preparation is defense. Without its Westwall, where a major battle was in progress last week (see p. 28), Germany might have been overrun almost as fast as it overran Poland. As soon as he took command of the Army, Brauchitsch began pressing for the completion of the fortifications in the West. Not until the Westwall was completed could Germany strike in the East. Hitler observed: "It will make the French Army a prisoner in France...
...workout for the giant Red Army, the invasion of Poland was only a brief sprint. For its significance-the partitioning of collapsed Poland-observers read the political dispatches from Moscow and Berlin (see...
...Stuff. Last week the British and French were again up against a Siegfried Stellung (see p. 28).* Four hundred and fifty miles long, it begins at the point where the Rhine enters The Netherlands, parallels the Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg frontiers about eight miles behind the Our, Sauer and Moselle Rivers, then skirts the Saar to the French border, then turns west and south along the Rhine and through the Black Forest until it reaches the Swiss frontier at Lake of Constance (see map). It has been under construction for three years and at one time last spring half...
...remote control. Saar-brikken lies within this defensive zone, six to 18 miles deep packed with hidden anti-aircraft gun pits. Then come the bunkers and major fortifications. The average over-all depth of the Siegfried Position is 30 miles and it embraces 22,000 separate fortified positions (see cuts...