Der Westwall (1939)

Directed by

Fritz Hippler

Genre

documentary film, propaganda film

Country

Germany

Runtime

46 min

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows the Siegfried Line, a set of German border fortifications. It presents the construction and purpose of these defenses.

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What happens

Der Westwall (English: The West Wall) is a 1939 film about the Siegfried Line directed by Fritz Hippler, the head of the film division within the Propagandaministerium. The Siegfried Line, called the West Wall by the Germans, was a large series of fortifications around the German borders with France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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