Workers at a dragon's teeth on the Siegfried Line, 1939
A group of workers involved in construction during their lunch break next to a line of anti-tank barriers. Scene from the documentary film Der Westwall ('The West Wall'), a propaganda film of the Deutsche Wochenschau (The German Weekly Review) presented at the beginning of August 1939. The film is intended to present the German western border as an insurmountable bulwark to protect the population from the effects of a possible war
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