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Washing for the sigfried line? French soldiers do their washing at a stream behind the western front, perhaps having in mind Britain's popular wartime song 'Hang Out Your Washing On the Siegfried Line'.

General George C. Marshall, U.S. Chief of Staff, talks to men of an American infantry division concerning presents and future operations in all theaters. (L-R) General Marshall; Maj. Gen. Raymond O'Barton, and Maj. Gen. Gerow. In the vicinity of the Siegfried Line, Germany.

Geallieerde troepen in Nederland. The defenses that failed. An American soldier examines a wrecked pillbox of the Siegfried Line in Holland after U.S. Army engineers blasted it in order to prevent its use as a fortification.

A column of smoke marks the exploding of a path, by Seventh U.S. Army engineers through dragon's teeth of the Siegfried Line to allow the passage of American war supplies. Armored troops of the Seventh U.S. Army overran the last Siegfried Line defenses in the Saar shortly after they opened a northward offensive on a 50-mile front between Saarbrucken and the Rhine River.

Colonel General von Brauchitsch at the West Front. The Commander in chief, Colonel General von Brauchitsch, visited during the last days again the West Front, and in first line the unities in the forefield of the West Wall and the workmen of the front, who had constructed different new fortifications.

Verenigde Staten. German pillboxes blown up by U.S. engineers. Huge columns of black smoke and debris are thrown up as engineers of the Ninth U.S. Army blow up Nazi pillboxes near Geilenkirchen, Germany, Siegried Line strong point besieged and captured by American and British troops November 19, 1944.

Verenigde Staten. American advance in deepest thrust into Reich. Infantrymen of the Seventh U.S. Army advance into the outskirts of Scheibenhardt, nortwest of Wissembourg, guarding the Rhine corridor to the three German towns of Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Ludwigshaven. Scheibenhardt was captured December 16, 1944, against fire from heaviest German guns in the Siegfried Line and after a sudden counterattack ...

All they get is thanks! Colonel-General von Brauchitsch, the German commander-in-chief, shaking hands with civilian workmen who have been engaged on construction work in the Siegfried Line. For a long time, there have been periodical reports of dissatisfaction among these men owing to over work and under payment.

The Iron Cross for West Wall Workmen. In the name of the Führer, the Colonel General von Brauchitsch decorated 11 West Wall workmen with the Iron Cross 2nd class. They had distinguished themselves during the construction of fortifications in the first line and under the fire of the enemy by prudent acting and cold-bloodedness. Three of them were presented on the birthday of the Führer to the Commander ...

Foto van ruïnelandschap met vernielde boom vanuit de ruïne van een huis gefotografeerd. Achterop geschreven: "Looking into Groesbeek. On Siegfried Line, looking west into Holland and Groesbeek". (foto afkomstig van Luyben)

German infantry worming their way to the front. A German infantry advance guard on their march to the front lines somewhere in Nomansland between Siegfried and Maginot Lines.