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Maginot Line
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Maginot Line, series of highly sophisticated French fortifications (
ouvrages) constructed between the wars to deter a German offensive into France. Named after André Maginot, the French minister of war who initiated the construction, it ran from Switzerland to the Luxemburg and Belgian borders, and into southern France, where the Italians failed to breach it in June 1940. There were fortifications, too, on Corsica and in Tunisia, but its two most heavily fortified areas were the Metz region between Longuyon and Teting and the Lauter region between the Saar and Rhine rivers. It was a symbol of French defensive thinking, and when the Germans launched their offensive in May 1940 (see
FALL GELB) its 400,000 troops performed well and refused to surrender. However, the main German thrust outflanked the line and it was later breached near Saarbrücken and Colmar.
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Kemp, A. , The Maginot Line (London, 1981).
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The Maginot Line: None Shall Pass
Magazine article from: Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; The Maginot Line: None Shall Pass by JE. Kaufmann and...Publishers West, 1997), 151 pages. The Maginot Line: None Shall Pass, is a short...Americans are not-well-acquainted. The Maginot Line, the line of fortresses France built...
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THE MAGINOT LINE
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 3/3/2001; ; 621 words
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Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II
Magazine article from: Air & Space Power Journal; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
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Maginot mentality: Regulators often fail to protect the public.(Fiduciary Corner)
Magazine article from: Investment News; 1/17/2005; 700+ words
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Mandy's 'Maginot Line' jibe at the French over bra wars.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/7/2005; 700+ words
; ...trade policies to the country's ill-fated wartime Maginot Line. The Maginot Line was the costly string of forts supposed to keep...and to protect us behind unrealistic walls. 'Any Maginot Line, as the French learned to their cost when the...
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Missile defense system: a Maginot line for 21st century?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/4/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...technology, the French created the Maginot line. The heavily fortified border was...the attacker." The lesson of the Maginot line is a favorite among people...critics see it as a latter-day Maginot line. It looks to repel rather...
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`The Maginot Line Worked'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/17/1988; 443 words
; ...op-ed, July 1} on metaphorical abuse of several terms, including the "Maginot line mentality" cliche'. As he says, "The Maginot line worked." The Maginot line (which I as an armored infantry captain helped to take from the rear in...
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The Maginot Line doesn't always hold.(NATION)(PRUDEN ON POLITICS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/30/2007; 700+ words
; ...formidable firewalls, or at least Maginot Lines. The public-opinion polls show...The conventional wisdom says her Maginot Line can't be breached, but they said that about Marshal Petain's Maginot Line, too, and Herr Hitler streaked...
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ISRAEL'S OWN MAGINOT LINE
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/7/2001; ; 257 words
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If You Go... VISITING THE MAGINOT LINE: Between [Derived Headline]
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register; 9/20/2009; ; 296 words
; If You Go... VISITING THE MAGINOT LINE: Between April and October, the forts are open in the...of Esch. For information on Hackenberg, the largest Maginot fort, visit www.maginot-hackenberg.com.
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Maginot Line
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Maginot Line A series of defensive fortifications in...then Minister of War, André Maginot (b. 1877, d. 1932), to secure the...outflanking both the French army and the Maginot Line, which was virtually intact when...
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France, fall of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...just north of where the Maginot Line ended, through...to press against the Maginot Line in the south to keep...the other side of the lines, matters were in the...eastwards to the Dyle Line —just as Hitler...unprofitably behind the Maginot Line; while Gamelin...
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World War II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...British and the French spent an inactive winter behind the Maginot Line , content with blockading Germany by sea. From Norway...Netherlands and Belgium; on May 13 they outflanked the Maginot Line. Their armored columns raced to the English Channel...
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engineers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...men); and the balance were lines of communication engineers...natural barriers like river lines; and creating artificial obstacles...fortifications and obstacles of the Maginot and Siegfried Lines on the Franco...tested in battle because the Maginot was outflanked by the German...
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Leeb, Field Marshal Wilhelm, Ritter von
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...to command Army Group C which faced the Maginot Line from Luxembourg southwards. From the time...Leningrad area in order to shorten his lines of communication and establish a coherent defensive line. Hitler refused and Leeb asked to be relieved...
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