Maginot Line

Purposes

The Maginot Line was built to fulfill several purposes:

Purposes

• To prevent a German surprise attack. • To deter a cross-border assault. • To protect Alsace and Lorraine) (returned to France in 1918) and their industrial basin. • To save manpower (France counted 39 million inhabitants, Germany 70 million). • To slow an attack to permit the mobilisation of the French Army (which took between two and three weeks). • To push Germany into an effort to circumvent via Switzerland or Belgium, and allow France to fight the next war off French soil to avoid a repeat of 1914–1918. • To be used as a basis for a counter-offensive.

Organisation

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