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Because it lulled the French into a false sense of security. The were so confident their concrete wall would keep the pesky Germans out, they over-estimated the difficulty the Germans would have moving armour through the Ardennes in Belgium - the only obvious way into France. Charles de Gaulle had warned them that the Ardennes were not impenetrable, but the Maginot Line was erected anyway. In April of 1940, Germany set up a small diversionary force in front of the Maginot Line and began moving the bulk of their troops and armour through the "impenetrable" Ardennes forest (the tanks kept to the road and the troops marched through the woods).

The next month (May), Germany arrived behind the Maginot Line. That would be humiliating enough in itself, if a fatal flaw had not been discovered - the cannons that pointed East, towards Germany, could not be turned around. The French at the line were quickly overwhelmed, and Germany conquered the entirety of France by July.

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