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It was called the Maginot Line, a series of French, not British, fortifications along the German border which were supposedly impenetrable. The Germans avoided this by flanking the line and going around it, invading France through the Ardennes and the Low Countries.
Maginot Line
German troops crossed through Belgium in an attempt to flank the French forces lined in trenches along the border.
'la ligne Maginot' (named after a Defence minister) was a line of fortifications along the German border, supposed to hold back a German invasion. Indeed, they took another route.
Yes. First the British called on the Germans to withdraw from Belgium, and set a deadline. When the Germans did not withdraw the British entered the war. Britain and Germany (actually Prussia, of which Germany was a successor state) were two of four Great Powers pledged in an 1839 Treaty to perpetually respect and defend Belgian neutrality. German war plans for a generation had cynically disregarded this Treaty obligation in their scheme to outflank French border defenses by going through Belgium. When Britain raised the issue of the Treaty in demanding German withdrawal from Belgium, the German Foreign Minister denounced the Treaty as " a scrap of paper".
It was called the Maginot Line, a series of French, not British, fortifications along the German border which were supposedly impenetrable. The Germans avoided this by flanking the line and going around it, invading France through the Ardennes and the Low Countries.
The line of bunkers designed to fend off German invasions was called "la ligne Maginot" (the Maginot line; it is named after the Defense minister who had it built).
Maginot Line
A strongly defended area on the eastern border of France where British and French concentrated their troops in the early days of WWII, anticipating a German attack
A historic German city close to the French border
The Maginot Line was a line of French fortifications along the French/German border.
The Rhine River (French: le Rhin, German: der Rhein)The southern part of the French-German border follows the river Rhine. The northern part does not follow any river.
No. People in France speak French. Some of the people near the French-German border learn German in school though.
The Maginot Line spanned the entire German-French border - from Belgium to Switzerland - and was about 720km (450mi) long.
La ligne Maginot was a defensive line along the German border.
The Maginot Line
German, French, and Italian