Maginot Line

• English: The Maginot Line consists of strategically located and spaced independent defensive sites initially intended to overcome the lack available male soldiers to staff an army following the tremendous loss of French men from World War 1. The thinking was that a use of various weaponry at strategic locations would offer a strong enough defence with minimal staffing to deter any aggressor long enough for the French military to mobilise its army and provide an appropriate defensive response. The original plans called for an extensive setup of defensive static underground fortifications that would support distributed gun emplacements installed at locations that provided overlapping artillery coverage, support by various sized cannons, mortars, machine gun emplacements, anti-tank trenches, etc. While intended to protects France's entire border, the project was hampered by politics, lack of funding, embezzlement, and other issues that ultimately forced trimming of the line to eliminate areas considered to be safe due to bordering neutral countries or around areas considered to be too difficult for an enemy to penetrate such as the Ardennes forests. The result was at the area of the Frence borders with Germany and Italy but no defensive provisioning on the Belgium and Swiss borders.
• Deutsch: Die Maginot-Linie ist ein französisches Verteidigungssystem, bestehend aus vielen Bunkern entlang der französischen Grenze zu Deutschland.
• Français : La ligne Maginot est une structure défensive constituée de forts mise en place par la France entre les deux guerres mondiales.
• Español: La línea Maginot era una línea de fortificaciones de hormigón, obstáculos para tanques, puestos de ametralladoras y otras defensas que Francia construyó a lo largo de sus fronteras con Alemania e Italia antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
• Italiano: La Linea Maginot era una linea fortificata costituita da forti e bunker, posta al confine tra la Germania e la Francia, durante la seconda Guerra Mondiale

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  The Maginot Line
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  American soldiers examine the Maginot Line in 1944 (Hochwald West Fortress, Block 13)
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  Ouvrage du Michelsberg - A22 Work Entree
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  Detail vom 75mm Turm, Block 5 im Ouvrage du Michelsberg
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  Transformatorraum, vor Block 5 im Ouvrage du Michelsberg
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  Fahrstuhlschacht zu Block 5, Ouvrage du Michelsberg
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  Versenkbarer Turm, Ouvrage du Michelsberg
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  die Werksküche des Ouvrage du Michelsberg
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  Schoenenbourg works, Block 7
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