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*The whole frontier fortification is called Siegfried. Adolf Hitler named the part which faces France the Limes, for Limes Germanicus, the old Roman wall and earthworks that ran along the same position. But Limes Germanicus was built against the Germans, to keep the Teuton barbarians out of the Roman Empire.
*Aged 71, Major General Fritz von Lossberg retired from the Army in 1927.