 the Atlantic Wall in France, the West Wall in the final defence of Germany's borders. Even then, the Germans never did manage to hold a position. They were always driven back. Of course, the argument is that they were driven back by overwhelming firepower, that the Allies won because they outproduced the Germans, not because they outfought them. There is truth to that. But the only time in World War II that the Wehrmacht undertook a genuine offensive against American troops, it was soundly whipped.