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CHAPTER 22: World War II: The War Against Germany and Italy A German soldier digs his way out of sand which buried him up to his neck after a shell landed near him during fighting against Allied forces. He became a POW soon after. Quineville, France, June 1944. The Siegfried Line campaign was a phase in the Western European campaign of World War II which involved actions near the German defensive Siegfried Line. This phase spans from the end of the Battle of Normandy, or Operation Overlord, (25 August 1944) incorporating the German winter counter-offensive through the Ardennes (commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge) and Operation Nordwind (in Alsace and Lorraine) up to the Allies preparing to cross the Rhine in the early months of 1945. This roughly corresponds with the official United States military European Theater of Operations Rhineland and Ardennes-Alsace campaigns. German forces had been routed during the Allied break-out from Normandy. The Allies advanced rapidly against an