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Definition of Siegfried line
1. Noun. German fortifications facing the Maginot Line.
Group relationships: Deutschland, Federal Republic Of Germany, Frg, Germany
Lexicographical Neighbors of Siegfried Line
Literary usage of Siegfried line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The siegfried line announced that the German reply was "Hammer away until ...
He wished to apply the same process to the siegfried line, believing it would ..."
2. Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918: The Great War from the by Erich Ludendorff (1919)
"... FIRST HALF OF The Withdrawal to the siegfried line—The Reasons for Defensive
Tactics in the West—The Russian Revolution—America's Declaration of War—The ..."
3. Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918: The Great War from the by Erich Ludendorff (1919)
"... FIRST HALF OF The Withdrawal to the siegfried line—The Reasons for Defensive
Tactics in the West—The Russian Revolution—America's Declaration of War—The ..."
4. The Great War by George Henry Allen, Henry C. Whitehead, French Ensor Chadwick (1919)
"Von Hindenburg's strategic retreat to the "Siegfried" line. The devastation of
the relinquished territory. The revised plans of the British and French. ..."
5. Military Geography for Professionals and the Public by John M. Collins (2000)
"Dragons' Teeth were merely the most visible defenses along the siegfried line
that buttressed Germany's borders with France, Luxembourg, and Belgium during ..."
6. Seventy-first New York in the World War by Robert Stewart Sutliffe (1922)
"The siegfried line is considered to afford the most favorable conditions for a
... For this reason outposts will be established before the siegfried line, ..."
7. The Book of History: A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times to the by James Bryce Bryce, Holland Thompson, William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1920)
"Another had driven the enemy from the bank of the canal, pushed along the Siegfried
Line and carried the German trench system west of the canal as far as ..."