What is the name of the French defenses built along the German border prior to World War II?

It was built under the assumption that WWII would be fought like WWI, in the trenches.

What is the name of the French defenses built along the German border prior to World War II?
The Maginot Line (IPA: [ma蕭i'no], named after French minister of defence Andr茅 Maginot) was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, machine gun posts and other defenses which France constructed along its borders with Germany and with Italy in the wake of World War I.





fromwikipedia: Maginot line
Reply:Does it matter it obviously didn't work,maybe if they shot their rifles instead out dropping them they could have stood their ground.
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Reply:The Maginot Line - linked some info for ya below.
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Reply:It should have been called the how to loose yet another war.
Reply:maginot line, germany drove around it in ww2. it was thought that germany would not invade neutral countries a second time. erich von manstein was the developer of the plan to crush the french
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Reply:the Maginot line was builds by the french to contra act a invasion of the German army. The line starts at the Swiss border and ends at Belgium border( it covers the complete border between French and Germany )


The line is a combination of reinforced concrete forts that could operated on there one , pillboxes, antitank obstacles etc.


in the link you can see one of these forts

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