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Today in History: May 19, 1940 - The Maginot Line
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3:55Now PlayingJohn Robson for TheRebel.media: On May 19, 1940, as the Blitzkrieg overwhelmed France, German troops captured Le Petit Ouvrage La Ferté, a northern outpost of the lengthy, heavily fortified and much-maligned Maginot Line.
In the wake of the French collapse that entire system of fortifications became a byword for strategic stupidity and backward thinking. But in fact the Maginot Line did its job, keeping the Germans and Italians out of the large part of France it defended. Even the poorly built and ineptly defended La Ferté, the only part taken during the initial Nazi assault, gave the Germans such trouble they hailed its capture as a major achievement.
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