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Scenes from The Siegfried Line

Clip: Season 2 Episode 5 | 1m 1s

Watch the story of one of the greatest fortification systems in the history of warfare.

Five times the length of Hadrian’s Wall, Hitler’s Siegfried Line was one of the greatest fortifications in the history of warfare. The campaign to breach it took 6 months and cost the American forces close to 140,000 casualties.

04/22/2015 | Rating TV-14

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Episode 5 Preview | The Siegfried Line

Preview: S2 Ep5 | 30s | Learn how the German Army secretly worked on one of history's greatest fortifications. (30s)

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