'Saarhechen-Stellung' was a German extemporised defence position designed to combine natural defensive features, portions of the 'Ligne Maginot' defences and portions of the 'Westwall' defences to aid General Otto von Knobelsdorff’s 1^st Army of General Hermann Balck’s Heeresgruppe 'G' in checking any thrust into the area of Saarbrücken by Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s US 3^rd Army of Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley’s US 12^th Army Group (late 1944).