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For this reason, emergency digs took place whenever any part of the line was removed, for example for road building.

Some had been destroyed in the fighting, or post-war by explosives, but many had been deliberately buried.

Regelbau B1-5a near Fremersdorf station• One difference was that there were no embrasures at the front, only at the sides of the bunkers.

These bunkers were mostly dugouts for single soldiers.

This brings the overall cost of the Siegfried Line Campaign, in US personnel, close to 140,000.

Archaeological activity was not able to stop the destruction of these sections but furthered scientific knowledge and revealed details of the line's construction.

Many other irregular lines of teeth were also built.

Bunker in the Iterbach valley near Walheim• : About bunkers built by the Germans during 1933—1945 in the whole of Europe• This effect is magnified because the concrete ruins cannot be used for agricultural or forestry purposes.

Pioneering program Small bunkers were set up with three embrasures towards the front.

Armour and arms shortage [ ] This section does not any.

Environmental conservation [ ] consider the remains of the Siegfried Line valuable as a chain of where, thanks to its size, rare animals and plants can take refuge and.