Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sees no sense in costly plant expansion to make munitions for profits the Government will then confiscate, moved to support Vandenberg. But Washington lobbies were thick with the agents of Big Business, plugging embargo repeal furiously over the fumes of free cigars. And such business-sensitive newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Herald Tribune were hailing their onetime target, Franklin Roosevelt, and sniping anti-repealers...
...tactical principle of the Siegfried Position was that of defense in depth; the idea being that an offensive force may crack a narrow wall but will be stopped or bounced back by a series of cushions and springs backing up each other. Colonel Lossberg's new type of front was some two miles deep, divided into forward zone, battle zone, rearward battle zone and two more rearward zones for mobile reserves...
...whole frontier fortification is called Siegfried. Adolf Hitler named the part which faces France the Limes, for Limes Germanicus, the old Roman wall and earthworks that ran along the same position. But Limes Germanicus was built against the Germans, to keep the Teuton barbarians out of the Roman Empire...
...they withdrew toward their West-wall, the Germans razed whole villages rather than leave shelter for the Allies. They were careful to fill in cellars...
...German troop concentrations observed behind the Westwall from Coblenz to Mannheim were believed to be preparing, not for any major counteroffensive, but to reinforce the Wall, to counterattack locally, to engage the Allies in field fighting if & when they ever do break through...