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Maginot was another veteran of World War I, who became the French Minister of Veteran Affairs and then Minister of War ( 1928 – 1931 ).
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The Maginot Line (, ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in light of its experience in World War I, and in the run-up to World War II.
It was strategically ineffective, as the Germans indeed invaded Belgium, defeated the French army, flanked the Maginot Line, through the Ardennes forest and via the Low countries, completely sweeping by the line and conquering France in about 6 weeks.
The Maginot Line was impervious to most forms of attack, and had state-of-the-art living conditions for garrisoned troops, including air conditioning, comfortable eating areas and underground railways.
It was André Maginot who finally convinced the government to invest in the scheme.
The location of this attack, probably because of the Maginot Line, was through the Belgian Ardennes forest ( sector 4 ) which is off the map to the left of Maginot Line sector 6 ( as marked ).
The Maginot Line was built to fulfill several purposes:
Although the name " Maginot Line " suggests a rather thin linear fortification, the line was quite deep, varying in depth ( i. e., from the border to the rear area ) from between.
The great Maginot Line was bypassed and battles that would have taken weeks of siege could now be avoided with the careful application of air power ( such as the German paratrooper capture of Fort Eben-Emael, Belgium, early in World War II ).
The first stone was place by André Maginot, Minister of War on 29 October 1922.
The plan, devised by Hitler, was essentially for a re-run of the invasion of 1914, with the main assault to come in the north, through Belgium and the Netherlands, then wheeling south to capture Paris, leaving the French Army anchored on the Maginot Line.
The stunning victories by the Germans early in World War II showed that fixed fortifications like the Maginot Line were worthless if there was room to circumvent them.
Emphasis was shifted to military efforts, the first major project being the Westwall ( known in English as the Siegfried Line ) built opposite the French Maginot Line and serving a similar purpose.
The obsolescence of large fortifications was displayed by the failure of the Maginot Line in the beginning of World War Two.
Note that this was not the case of the Maginot Line, designed to force the Germans to pass through Belgium and that has fully achieved its political and strategic role.
If a purely defensive position was taken the Maginot Line would be broken and that the British Army ( with anti-aircraft defence ) was only getting £ 277 million out of a total £ 2, 000 million spent on defence.
Schwerer Gustav was initially intended to be used for breaching the French Maginot Line of fortifications, but was not finished in time and ( as a sign of the times ) the Maginot Line was circumvented by rapid mechanized forces instead of breached in a head-on assault.
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Part of the rationale for the Maginot Line stemmed from the severe French losses during the First World War, and their effects on French demographics.
The Maginot Line would be the prime example of the failure of immobile, post – World War I fortifications.
As a reaction to her World War I experience, France entered World War II with a purely defensive doctrine, epitomized by the " impregnable " Maginot Line, but only to be completely circumvented by the German blitzkrieg.
In France the lesson of World War I was translated into the Maginot Line which was supposed to hold a line at the border with Germany.
In English, Siegfried line more commonly refers to the similar World War II defensive line, built during the 1930s, opposite the French Maginot Line, which served a corresponding purpose.
At the beginning of World War II, Darnand volunteered to join the French army and served in the Maginot Line and was decorated for bravery.
Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II, Stackpole Books, 2006.
This was in contrast with French thinking for the contemporary Maginot Line fortifications, which were based on the dispersed fort palmé concept, with no clearly defined perimeter, a lesson learned from the experiences of French and Belgian forts in World War I.
Prior to the Second World War they were incorporated by the French into the Maginot Line defenses, but again saw little action.
The concept came from France's Maginot Line, built after World War I.
Maginot and War
* Maginot Line at War, 1940
* Maginot Line at War
* André Maginot – Minister of War
* André Maginot – Minister of War
* André Maginot – Minister of War
Released during the Phoney War, the film may have alluded to France's Maginot Line.
On May 10 the Phoney War ended with a sweeping German invasion of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and French Third Republic that bypassed French fortifications along the Maginot Line.
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Besides Briand, André Maginot, Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Paul Reynaud, Laval brought in as his advisors, friends such as Maurice Foulon from Aubervilliers, and Pierre Cathala, whom he knew from his days in Bayonne and who had worked in Laval's Labour ministry.
It is produced by and stars Claude Maginot, who unsuccessfully tries to direct his interview towards instead of TV work.
# Those who deny this possibility are exhibiting something like a " Maginot line mentality ";
* Maginot Line ( aka Miss Marie )- One of the prostitutes who live above the Breedlove residence.
At their height in 1940, the Troupes Coloniales consisted of nine divisions and several demi-brigades who manned machine gun emplacements on the Maginot Line.
Maginot and French
* The Maginot Line ( French / English / German / Italian )
The French-fortified Maginot Line and the Allied forces in Belgium were circumvented by a flanking movement through the thickly wooded Ardennes region, mistakenly perceived by French planners as an impenetrable natural barrier against armoured vehicles.
The French began work on the Maginot line in this year, as a defense against a possible German attack, and on September 5 Briand presented a plan for the United States of Europe.
* February 17 – André Maginot, French politician ( d. 1932 )
* January 7 – Andre Maginot, French soldier and politician ( b. 1877 )
In response, the Supreme Allied Commander — French General Maurice Gamelin — initiated " Plan D " which relied heavily on the Maginot Line fortifications.
To his north Army Group B under General Fedor von Bock faced the Dutch and Belgian borders, while to his south Army Group C under General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb faced the French along the Maginot Line.
This battle allowed them to win the whole Battle of France as they not only bypassed the French fortification system, the Maginot Line, but it also enabled them to entrap the Allied Forces that were advancing east into Belgium, as part of the Allied Dyle Plan strategy.
At the Maginot Line on the other side of the border, British and French troops stood facing them, but there were only some local, minor skirmishes.
At the same time, French divisions were ordered to retreat to their barracks along the Maginot Line.
It broke the French front and allowed German armor, or " Panzer ", units to cut off the armies in the Maginot Line on 17 June.
* A French military leader tells the British that " a veritable forest of guns " over the Maginot Line will prevent the German Luftwaffe from intervening in a land war between France and Germany.
* The French assure General John Vereker, the British Chief of the General Staff, that they plan to reinforce their antiaircraft artillery in the Maginot Line to counter Germanys superior aircraft such that Germany " would require an unrealizable supremacy of machines to get over the antiaircraft defenses.
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