VOn MUDRA! Come educate this man on the Maginot Line!
Watched that mini series Apocalipsis - WW2; some general misplaced their trust in the Maginot Line, and one; I dont remember his name warned that it wouldnt hold and it wasnt exactly secure. Germans also parachuted behind it, and started to destroy the heavy howitzers and other defences. Other than that, I dont know more about the line.
Nope, that was Epen Emil.
For starters, the French placed their best troops and armoured divisions on the Belgian Border, and moved rapidly to meet the German forces advancing through Belgium. Meanwhile, the Army Group C of the german army, fully 1/3 of their attack force (B attacked Holland, A attacked Belgium and France), attacked the Maginot Line. Yes, the germans didn't do this magic single thrust through the Ardennes. They actually attacked, with a full army group, against the Maginot Line. And were slaughtered. I mean absolutely butchered. By the end of the war, the entire line was holding out, despite being completely surrounded. French diplomats had to go in to tell them the war was over.
The french lost because of poor high command structure that ordered retreats at battles like Glemboux Gap when victory was nearly assured (post war, several german generals admitted that if the french had simply kept up the attack instead of pulling back at Glemboux, they would have cut off and annihilated the german attack). In the end, the Maginot Line did its job, it vectored the Germans around it, as they failed to penetrate it. It forced them into Flander's fields, where the French had wanted them to go. The fact that the french then failed to make use of this advantage, and instead through extreme caution and poor use of their divisions by the HQ, was not because of the Maginot Line. It served its purpose fully. The French had more tanks and superior tanks to anything the Germans had. Their HQ just couldn't run the war.