#siegfriedlinie

[lutnistas]

exploring the remains of the Westwall Bunkers ( Simonskall / Germany )

[korrektheiten]

Der verlorene Tag

JF: Am 8. August 1918 begann die Entente mit einer Großoffensive gegen die deutschen Stellungen. 3.000 Geschütze, 420 Panzer und 1.900 Flugzeuge sorgten dafür, daß die deutsche Front im Westen fast zusammenbrach. General Ludendorff sprach vom „schwarzen Tag des deutschen Heeres“. http://dlvr.it/Qf9qsB

[sixtensason]

The constructions of the Westwall among other WW II-relics, a very good documented site.

[sixtensason]

When Tumpets Fade. Less glamourous, no lovestories interwoven and not at all the average hollywood miltary movie. As a movie a bit forgotten, just as the battle in the Hürtgenwald itself. Vers kanonnenvlees.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slag_om_het_H%C3%BCrtgenwald

[sixtensason]

Cheerful song, to boost up the positive thinking of the troops. Sounds a bit too optimistic, troubling the view on the losses : estimated more than 33000 among the American troops and 12000 on the German side - not to mention the countless wounded.  All happened in a wood south of Aachen, Hürtgenwald. And the famous Ardennenoffensief was still to come.