The Siegfried Line, hailed as the "fortress that never falls," and the "monument built upon the corpses of enemy soldiers," was filled with a tense atmosphere of live combat in one of its rooms.
For the Siegfried Line, which was in a constant state of first-level combat readiness every single day, real combat had long since become an expected routine; the so-called "atmosphere of live combat" should have been a thing of the past. Accustomed to seeing countless bodies, there was no room for nervousness.
The soldiers on the front lines would probably interpret it this way, but for those hidden in a bunker 1.6 kilometers underground, today marked their very first taste of actual combat.
