Maginot Line
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The Maginot Line, named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s. The line was to deter inv
Entrance to Ouvrage Schoenenbourg, Maginot Line in Alsace
A soldier from the Cameron Highlanders looks through a periscope in the Fort de Sainghain on the Maginot Line, 3 November 1939.
Food distribution to French troops in Maginot line. 1939.
Casemate of Dambach Nord, Fortified Sector of the Vosges, Subsector of Philippsbourg
The Dyle plan or Plan D was the plan of the commander-in-chief of the French Army, Général d'armée Maurice Gamelin, to defeat a German attempt to invade France through Belgium. The Dyle river is 86 km
Western Front campaign, 1940
1939 poster from the Ministry of Armament, "With your scrap we shall forge the steel of victory!"
The Rhineland as defined by the Treaty of Versailles, part contiguous with the Belgian frontier.
German Panzer IV (photographed on 22 June 1940)