The Maginot Line Feature Documentary 2000 Part 2/5

[@soundknight]

I guess the trouble with any large project is that the time needed to build it gives the enemy time to respond and plan for it also.

[@Kynos1]

Excellent documentary.

[@p28-e7j]

Excellent documentary. Best I've seen on the subject.

[@toddmarkham4429]

The French peoples' courage never failed them, but the same could not be said for their leadership.

[@brucec43]

Except maybe the 55/71st divisions.

[@Itsaboutthewaterlife]

Generals always fight the last war. I'm beginning to think it was the Gov't Leadership; as in the politicians. Perhaps socialism was starting to creep into their ranks. Appeasement is never an option.

[@metaleater9]

@@Itsaboutthewaterlife If the French command was fighting the last war they wouldn't lave abandoned the forts like they did in WW1, Which they only did because the Belgain forts fell so quickly do to fundamental flaws that were only learned about after WW1 ended. It's why the Maginot Line was even built in the first place, They realized the forts at Verdun while flawed still worked very well and their abandonment cost the French much in blood.

[@mattybt400]

What a remarkable man.

[@michaelmace924]

If someone kills themselves from being bored & lonely then they have way bigger problems than being bored & lonely.

[@martinsto8190]

to bad this documentary dosen't include the rest of the maginot line

[@HoboRoadrunner]

So whats the status of the fortress??

[@metaleater9]

Anyone know the name of the song at 0:30?

[@carolynrobinson8923]

Its the Dies Irae, from the Mass for the Dead used by Franz Liszt in the fifth movement of his Symphonie Fantastique

[@ruffian25505]

Carolyn Robinson it isn’t by Liszt, it’s by Berlioz 😁

[@patrickwentz8413]

Lions led by sheep.

[@pranees]

Did maurice gamelan think hitler would never know about maginot line when it was openly constructed ?....imagine if it was constructed on german border with hitler destroying 70% of europe and any allies resistance dare to cross the line into germany

[@SKa-tt9nm]

praneeth kalidindi it didnt need to be a surprise

[@souvanikmajhi2945]

Germany did construct their own defence line named Siegfried line