Strictly speaking, Western Europe was originally part of the Roman Empire's sphere of influence. The German part is called East Francia, and the French part is called West Francia. The D'Farben family fought to the death in World War II, and of course, france's Maginot Line became a perpetual joke.
The Maginot Line was like a high wall defending the barbarians of Eastern Europe during the Roman Empire, and was completely incomparable with the Great Wall. This defensive line was built in the era when mankind had entered armored warfare, and it could no longer find its second role except for ridicule. In the decades before the start of World War II, France devoted its main energy to building this defensive line, which also made Germany laugh off its big teeth.
Why did France not want to think about it, was there only one road from Germany to France, Maginot? In such a large part of Belgium, the Ardennes Forest, the Germans were free to cross. Who wants to take the Maginot Line? Unless France wrapped up its entire land area in the Maginot Line, Germany would always have a way to bypass Maginot.
The French people are really not humble, and this place of one-horse flat river is not dangerous at all. The French hoped that the Maginot Line could be used to delay the German offensive for weeks and prepare the soldiers. But the tanks of The Second World War developed too fast, and they were no longer the shells of the iron turtles of the First World War. That's a real flying car, which can walk at least 30 kilometers per hour.
The only function of the Maginot Line was to pull Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg into the water, so that Britain and the United States must join the battle. France himself knew that he could not defeat Germany, so he ceded the C position to Britain and the United States. France's self-deception has reached a level comparable to that of the Qing Dynasty's heavenly kingdom, clinging to its previous victorious experience and having a poor sense of innovation.
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