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Soldiers in a position by a river

Behind a wall of planks and sandbags on the bank of a broad river, soldiers in crested steel helmets and greatcoats keep watch, a wooded shore across the water; inside the position one of them, a scarf pulled up to his chin, raises binoculars to his eyes beside gas masks hanging on hooks. Apparently French soldiers on the Rhine, where the two armies faced each other across the river from September 1939 to May 1940.

Period: c. September 1939–May 1940
Credit: US National ArchivesPublic Domain · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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France before the German offensive, 1936–1940 · Divide and Conquer: Norway, the Low Countries and France

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