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It is argued that the building of these fortresses was the single most costly fail in warfare, but on the other side of the spectrum, these structures did exactly what they were intended to. They did stop the Germans from invading the border, however the French made a grave mistake and underestimated their enemy.. The Maginot Line is the greatest defensive barrier since the Great Wall of China. Deep below the earth, along the German border in France, you will find the remaining 500 miles of interconnecting tunnels and railways of these fortresses. Each fortress was heavily armed, had barracks that could hold hundreds of troops, and had everything from kitchens to infirmaries.
France built these very costly military fortifications after World War 1 to prevent the invasion of the much larger German military. The French were convinced that the Maginot Line would have stopped any enemy attack coming from the German border, and they were somewhat correct. They did however fail to recognize German troops could violate the neutrality of Belgium and attack through the northern Belgium border. The Germans did just that in 1940, invading through Belgium, capturing Paris and conquering France in less than a few weeks. The enemy had gone around the Maginot Line.
Today the Maginot Line is no longer used or maintained. This photo is not from a museum but from myself plus a handful of German adrenaline junkies creeping around extremely dangerous places of the underworld.
What is shown here is a collapsed ammunition elevator that leads up to a rail specifically designed to carry troops and oversized ammo. There were dozens of empty ammunition crates left behind that had once made the journey through this elevator.
Could you imagine what life was like during wartime and inside these massive fortresses?
MY FIRST HOI 4 CAMPAIGN
EP 2 READY FOR THE FRANCE
This is how I closed yesterday evening. In just a phew months I have conquered Sweden and Norway, even if they gets some French and Brithis reinforcements. A strange thing was that Belgium declared war and tried to break my defensive line with some other British and French divisions but they have done nothing except for about 1k manpower loose from me at the price of 10k for them, completely useles. After that I have passed some moth in reinforcing my positions and preparing the troops for the next step.
I have a force of nearly 160 divions 30 of wich are armored divisions plus thousands of bombers and fighters ready on the borders divided in 6 armies. 5 of them will priced through benelux while one will wait on maginot line. Of the five 3 will preced in France to conquer the major city's the other 2 will go to backstab enemy troops on maginot line and on the Italian Border, for a complete and fast annihilation.
A little note about Italy, they losed Albania and yougoslavian possessions by the British forces. And they are losing an enormous quantity of manpower trying to invade southern France, as you can see in the second photo.
Yugoslavia have invaded and conquered Bulgary.
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French artillerymen reloading a heavy artillery piece of 155mm during the Battle of France, 1940. The Battle or Fall of France refers to the German invasion of France, but also the Low Countries during the Second World War, which only lasted six weeks, starting 10 May 1940. Four countries fell apart in that month: France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. We could add a fifth nation to this list, since the Empire of Japan occupied French Indochina in September. The casualties were highly unbalanced, with 163,676 casualties on the German and Italian side, and 2,260,000 casualties on the Allies.
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