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Episode 155 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 1: Courtney Hodges Hates His Own Soldiers

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The Siegfried Line

The Siegfried Line began life in the 1930s, and it stretched from the western borders of the old German Empire into eventually the Sudetenland Austria. It was generally forgotten about for a little bit as Germany did a whole lot of other things like anti-Semitism and concentration camp construction. But by 1938, when they started annexing some places and, uh, taking over as others without using the term annexation, Nazi stuff happened. So he realized like, hey, we should probably spend more money on this defensive line to the west. Because remember at the time, they don't think they're going to fight the Soviets? They will eventually,. He thought them to be a subhuman

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