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Old July 18th, 2006, 08:32 AM
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Re: The Maginot Line

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Originally Posted by Klaus View Post
The one who constructed this worthless piece of junk surley still slaps himself in the face every morning. By the way: They grow mushrooms down there by now. Thats all what its good for.
Actually...it was quite an elaborate bit if engineering but, as history shows, it was easy to circumvent. Had they contructed it as it should have been, all the way to the sea, it might have had more effect. In fact they started to do so but were nowhere near completion in June of 1940.
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