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The project was supported by the old generation of generals such as Philippe Pétain who had lead the French Army through World War I and envisioned a rematch against Germany as a mostly stationary conflict, while it was criticized by the advocates of mobile warfare like Charles de Gaulle. Its performance was mixed when it finally was tested in the first stages of World War II: the strongest section in Alsace-Lorraine held the halfhearted German attacks back, but the French did not make use of it to push against the much weaker Siegfried Line built by the Germans, and Belgium denied pass through her territory to all belligerents until it was invaded by Germany several months later. In the end the Germans defeated the Allies in the Low Countries and pushed into France through the weaker fort

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  • The project was supported by the old generation of generals such as Philippe Pétain who had lead the French Army through World War I and envisioned a rematch against Germany as a mostly stationary conflict, while it was criticized by the advocates of mobile warfare like Charles de Gaulle. Its performance was mixed when it finally was tested in the first stages of World War II: the strongest section in Alsace-Lorraine held the halfhearted German attacks back, but the French did not make use of it to push against the much weaker Siegfried Line built by the Germans, and Belgium denied pass through her territory to all belligerents until it was invaded by Germany several months later. In the end the Germans defeated the Allies in the Low Countries and pushed into France through the weaker fort
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  • The project was supported by the old generation of generals such as Philippe Pétain who had lead the French Army through World War I and envisioned a rematch against Germany as a mostly stationary conflict, while it was criticized by the advocates of mobile warfare like Charles de Gaulle. Its performance was mixed when it finally was tested in the first stages of World War II: the strongest section in Alsace-Lorraine held the halfhearted German attacks back, but the French did not make use of it to push against the much weaker Siegfried Line built by the Germans, and Belgium denied pass through her territory to all belligerents until it was invaded by Germany several months later. In the end the Germans defeated the Allies in the Low Countries and pushed into France through the weaker fortifications south of Belgium and the Ardennes (a rugged, heavily forested area that the French high staff had wrongly considered "unpassable" by motorized forces) while avoiding the stronger section altogether. Thus, "Maginot Line" has entered the vernacular as synonym for some measure where much effort is put on only to fail spectacullarly.
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