THE SIEGFRIED LINE
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East (Rec. 8 p.m.) BERLIN, August 31. The Essen newspaper, “Fortschritt” (“Progress”) said to-day that the Siegfried Line was being built in reverse —as a defence against the East—along the Dutch and Belgian borders and that Western Europe was going to dig in behind .it. The newspaper .asked if Western Germany had been given up. It said orders had been given "overnight” to German construction firms for work in the area. Two airfields had been built and, part of the population would soon be evacuated.
The East Berlin newspaper “Nacht Express,” which featured the Essen story under the headline “Siegfried Line Taken out of Moth Balls” said the rebuilding of the line had alarmed Belgians and Dutch in the border areas. Hitler built a bristling array of pillboxes, bunkers, tank traps, and barbed wire entanglements called the Siegfried Line “to defend Germany against aggression from the West.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26515, 1 September 1951, Page 7
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