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| German soldiers with a 7.5cm le.IG 18 infantry gun, Maginot Line, France, May 1940 | German Generalleutnant Kurt Daluege visiting the Ouvrage Hackenberg fortification on the Maginot Line near Thionville, Moselle, France, May 1940; the party was entering the munitions entrance |
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| The entrance to Ouvrage Schoenenbourg along the Maginot Line in Alsace |
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