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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread
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To: Ilaine who wrote (3967)2/2/2001 3:38:32 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 59480
 
In some sense the Maginot Line was a success. When the Germans invaded France in 1940, they did not go through the Maginot Line, they did an end run around it.

Why was there an open end? (ie., why was the line not completed so that it completely enclosed the land borders of France?)
I've read 2 explanations:

1. The French ran out of money. If this is true, it has to be called a failure. If a defensive system is so expensive that the nation employing cannot carry it to the point that it actually defends, then that nation should never have started it. It should have spent the money on something useful.

2. The French did not want to alarm or offend their ally the Belgians by building the line along their border (which was what was required to complete it.) The Belgians could have interpreted to mean either the French did not trust them, or that they would sacrifice them to the Germans and hide behind their defensive line.
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