Looking at the history, we will find that France, fearing German retaliation after World War I, began to build strong fortifications on the Franco-German border in order to defend Germany from 1920, led by the French Minister of War André Maginot, to resist possible future German invasions.
From 1920 to 1936, France spent 17 years and invested a lot of money to build a tight line of defense from the Alps to the Ardennes. The entire defensive line consisted of 142 artillery forts, 352 underground bunkers and more than 5,000 bunkers, which can be said to be the most powerful fortress defense system in the world at that time.
Unfortunately, this seemingly impregnable line was later proved to be a joke by the Germans in World War II.
It turned out that as mentioned earlier, the French Maginot Line was only repaired to the Ardennes Forest, not to the end of the continent, it was actually only half completed, which gave the German Armored Corps the perfect opportunity to bypass the Maginot Line, and why did the French not finish the Maginot?
The reason is that France's ally Belgium at that time believed that if France also built a defensive line on the Franco-Belgian border, it was hostile to Belgium, so it was firmly opposed to France also building fortifications on the Franco-Belgian border, hindering the situation of allies and restricting the funds invested in the project, which was indeed too big a consideration, and France finally chose to build only half of the Maginot Line.
Because the Maginot Line consumed a large amount of the French military budget, the speed of military development in France was significantly lower than that of Germany before World War II, and when the Germans began to equip tanks in large quantities, the French mostly dug trenches behind the Maginot Line.
Therefore, when Germany broke through the British and French allied lines from the Ardennes Forest, the German armored forces were like no man's land, and the huge Maginot Line could only sadly watch its country being breached by the German bypass, and the Maginot Line, which had lost its supplies, finally under the encirclement of the Germans, announced the end of its mission without firing a single shot. It was also the Most Useless Joke of the Maginot Line that became the most useless ornament in the history of war.
A country can not always think of relying on fortifications to protect its own security, only by constantly strengthening its military strength, can it truly be feared and dare not covet!
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