!!!Reichsschutzstellung

Reichsschutzstellung (also called Suedostwall), line of defence, 
planned to reach from Pressburg (Bratislava) to lower Styria, via 
Weiden on the northern shore of Lake Neusiedl, Oedenburg and 
Geschriebenstein from autumn 1944. A second line of defence was 
planned to extend from Bruck an der Leitha to Neusiedl, 
Mannersdorf, Siegendorf, Schattendorf and Neckenmarkt. The National 
Labour Service, the "Organisation Todt" special purpose 
force, foreign civilians, prisoners of war, forced labour convicts, 
Hungarian Jews and Volkssturm combat troops were employed for its 
construction (a total of 83,000 people in January 1945). The 
Reichsschutzstellung proved ineffective against the approaching Soviet 
troops in March and April 1945.

!Literature
L. Banny, Schild im Osten, 1985.


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