The rise and the fall of the Nazi State. A German soldier peers watchfully from the defenses of "Fortress Europe".

The rise and the fall of the Nazi State. A German soldier peers watchfully from the defenses of "Fortress Europe". A German soldier peers from a steel and concrete gun emplacement in the "Atlantic Wall", the great line of defenses, gun emplacements and forts erected by the Germans to protect "Fortress Europe" from Allied invasion from England. Hitler repeatedly proclaimed the invulnerability of this defense system and at the bier of Dr. Todd, who built both the Siegfried Line as a defense against France and the West Wall as a defense against invasion from England, the German Führer proclaimed: "The experience of the present war has confirmed aour conviction that no power in the world could succeed in breaking through this most gigantic defense zone of all time". Yet two years later this supposedly impregnable defense was broached as Allied men and material poured into Northern France.