Morning Edition Returns: Bunker Mentality

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Published January 10, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Germany is slowly destroying 20,000 bunkers along World War II's Siegfried Line, declaring them a safety hazard -- not to mention a bitter vestige of the past.

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