Field Marshal von Rundstedt's chief of staff, General Westphal upon inspecting the West Wall. "The damned bunkers have been taken over by the peasants...they store their winter potatoes and beets in the places.Totally useless as defensive positions. Our only hope is to dig new communication trenches and put the men in them,not the bunkers."
An attempt was made to call up 1 million civilians to excavate new earthworks but only 360,000 turned up.Even the civilians seemed to sense that it was useless.

From The West Wall:Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line by C Whiting

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