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East Wall (defensive line)



The East Wall (Большой Энциклопедический Словарь, , Vostochnyi val) was a German defensive line on the Eastern Front of World War II, built after the battle of Kursk. While it appeared that in ordering the East Wall Adolf Hitler had accepted a general retreat on the Eastern Front as inevitable, subsequent decisions revealed that he actually intended to establish a barrier behind which the armies could not retreat.



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