WWII - 1939, German Defenses: Siegfried Line w/ Dragon’s Teeth & Bunker Emplacements

WWII - 1939, German Defenses: Siegfried Line w/ Dragon’s Teeth & Bunker Emplacements CU Anti-tank Dragon’s Teeth in Siegfried Line aka Westwall w/ farmer grazing sheep thru them. LS along line of Dragon’s Teeth. 01:00:22 Aerial over wide band / 5 rows of Dragon’s Teeth. 01:00:59 CU of metal anti-tank barricade & Dragon’s Teeth. Steel posts & barbed wire alongside canal; reinforced concrete bunkers alongside river; pan to passing barge & emplacements on opposite shore. 01:02:23 CU newly constructed concrete Dragon’s Teeth; aerial along canal or small stream; construction equipment in field. 01:03:19 Pan Dragon’s Teeth behind trees along riverbank. Bunker. Pan razor wire in multiple fences in woods. 01:04:18 Tilt up wooden tower, man climbing ladder; tilt down to German soldier pumping water & washing mess kit outside concrete bunker. Slug. 01:04:39 Stop-motion animation showing development of protection points with bunkers & lookouts. 01:05:02 Pan bunkers built into ground with earthen covering on hillsides; in fields seen from air w/ newly planted shrubs. Bunkers connected into network. 01:06:08 Steel tank trap alongside road; officer on horseback leading marching troops w/ rifles & ammunition boxes. Farmers and women working in fields watch them pass. 01:06:46 Concrete bunker w/ camouflage paint & sign above entrance: Werkgruppe Scharnhorst Panzerwerk 1238. Column of troops enter, seen from inside. Ext. HA entering; interior shot of marching down long corridor w/ electric lights from ceiling. Small train seen on tracks inside. Train w/ soldiers passing inside. 01:08:34 Soldiers boarding elevator cage; others walk up steps alongside. POV from rising elevator. 01:09:07 MCU air pipes along ceiling of tunnel above wooden tables. Pan tools on wall. Men playing cards, smoking & relaxing. 01:09:50 Ext. workers w/ shovels running across dirt to edge & look down. Alongside road, open staff car w/ Hitler up mountain road; German soldiers giving salute by outstretched arms. 01:10:18 MS German officer talking w/ Polish officer. HItler beside fence with Himmler & others; walk into bunker. Shell being hoisted to gun. 01;10:43 CU German pro-Nazi newspaper: Volkischer Beobachter. 01:10;54 LS along Dragon’s Teeth in place. Old couple hoeing between Dragon’s Teeth and crops. Crops & sheep in Dragon’s Teeth area WW2; Military Defensive Protection; 1930s; Pre-WW2;