Maginot Line
- Want Germans to be crippled
- Reparations had to be payed
- Want a defensive position against Germany
- Build French fortification along the french/German border
- Leads them into a false sense of security
- Want Germans to be crippled
- Want reparation money
- Want a defensive position against germany
- Build fortifications along French/German border
- Leads them into a false sense of security
We could hardly dream of building a kind of Great Wall of France, which would in any case be far too costly. Instead we have foreseen powerful but flexible means of organizing defense, based on the dual principle of taking full advantage of the terrain and establishing a continuous line of fire everywhere.
—10 December 1929
—10 December 1929