German villagers’ recruitment as laborers to work on Siegfried Line defense fortification. German villagers from the Rhineland-Palatinate area march out of town, most likely Saarlouis, Germany, given sign on street noting distances to Trier and Saarbrücken. German men board buses bearing signs in German that read, "Baugesellschaft C. Hallenbach, Berlin" (C. Hallenbach Construction Company, Berlin) Two young men smile and peer from their bus window. Men from all over German work on the Siegfried Line, march in the countryside. German men, holding spades, march past dragon's teeth tank barriers on their way to work on the Siegfried Line. Laborers march with spades in countryside amid mounds of soil.
Jaeger-Schnellmischer high-speed cement mixers at construction site for building of the Siegfried Line in Nazi Germany. A Nazi German official oversees construction work. Laborers haul a cement mixer using ropes. Various pile drivers in operation at the construction site. A welder works on metal form.. Laborer bends bar. Laborers pass around rebar. View of a bunker being constructed. View of a bunker excavation underground.
German laborers pour concrete from cement mixers during work on the Siegfried Line defense fortification in western Nazi Germany. Two men talk beside a high-speed cement mixer. Concrete pours into bucket that are then hoisted to pour into forms. Mixers rotate, process cement. Mixer pours cement down shoot into forms. Water being sprayed on newly created Dragon's teeth tank barriers to cure concrete via hydration. Shirtless laborers dig soil with shovels amongst surveyor's stakes indicating placement of new barriers. Men walk in trench. Man arranges grasses outside finished bunker to ward off soil erosion. Men tamp down soil with shovels. A man waters newly planted pine tree saplings.
A cook brings supplies inside a kitchen supply room of a bunker in Nazi Germany. Kitchen supply room door says “Küche vorratsraum n. 27,”which is German for "Kitchen Pantry." A cook prepares stew in a large stainless steel drum pot in kitchen. German men shower in communal shower room in bunker. German man shaves in the “Abortraum n. 34” (lavatory). View of toilets in bathroom stalls. Man enters a first aid - medical room via door that reads“Verbandsraum no. 18” (“First Aid" in German). Soldiers in bunker communications room. One soldier changes patch cable on switchboard while another picks up a telephone handset to make a call. View of a boiler room in a bunker. Generator room in bunker showing generators II and III . Close up of pushrods and valve lifters on running generator. Soldier starts belt driven machinery in generator room.
Various weapons and ammunition found inside a bunker in the Siegfried Line in Nazi Germany. Camera shows neatly-arranged rifles, artillery, artillery shells, and cannons inside a bunker. Long lines of light infantry artillery in storage including Pak 36 (Panzerabwehrkanone 36) is a 3.7 cm caliber German anti-tank guns and German le IG G18 75mm infantry support guns. Rows of cannons in storage and many shells. Sign says “Sechsscharten Turm” (German: “Six-slot tower”). German solders pull chains to lift armament up from storage. Soldier push a rail cart full of artillery shells into an elevator after track signal changes to indicate entrance clear. German soldiers aim artillery with cannon in foreground inside bunker. POV aiming cannon from inside German bunker through pillbox embrasure to outside. Various German artillery pieces moving into aiming position through embrasure as seen from outside bunker pillboxes. German soldiers marching into a bunker. View of Dragon's teeth tank barriers arranged on the Siegfried Line.
A shepherd tends to his sheep amongst Dragon’s teeth tank barriers in land along the Siegfried Line in western Germany. View of “Dragon’s Teeth” tank barriers built in various parts of the Siegfried Line. Aerial view of Siegfried Line. Camera pans from line of Dragon's Teeth to Czech hedgehog-type steel antitank obstacles. Water filled trench and barbed wire fence as part of the Siegfried Line.