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• Siegfried Line
  Siegfried Line

  noun

  a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding World War II.
• Siegfried line
  Siegfried line

  noun

  the line of fortifications built by the Germans prior to and during World War II opposite the Maginot line in France

Siegfried Line

American  

noun

1. a zone of fortifications in W Germany facing the Maginot Line, constructed in the years preceding World War II.

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Siegfried line British  

noun

1. the line of fortifications built by the Germans prior to and during World War II opposite the Maginot line in France

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Siegfried Line Siegfried line

The German World War I plan included a Siegfried Line, a Wotan Line, an Operation Alberich; the analogy between the Valkyries and air warfare “became a cliché almost overnight.”

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2020

Later, villagers hosted U.S. troops when the men were given rest-and-recuperation breaks from trying to breach the German frontier defenses, known as the Siegfried Line.

From Washington Post ● May 24, 2015

Equally bored, German soldiers stared back from their Siegfried Line a few miles away.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

Could they stand long at the Siegfried Line?

From Time Magazine Archive

The Germans had pulled back to a heavily fortified position known to the British as the Hindenburg Line and to the Germans as the Siegfried Line.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

"Who else can swing from the Siegfried line one week to the new hip line the next?"

From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2013

Hole up in the Siegfried line and try to live a few days longer?

From Time Magazine Archive

There were other places of extreme unhealthfulness where our men had fought their way up to the Hindenburg line, or, as the Germans called it, the Siegfried line.

From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip

Immediately north of the Siegfried line, the experts explain, is a new German position, which they have christened the Wotan line.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917 by Various

The fact that our gains included a seven-mile stretch of the Siegfried line made no appreciable difference to the future course of the war; and we even failed to learn the lesson of our failure.

From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)