• Gentofte, Denmark 26 Dennis Lobach RW R 24 2024 Schweinfurt, Germany 6 Kevin Maginot D L 30 2024 Mannheim, Germany 52 Maksim Matushkin D L 34 2023 Minsk...
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  • Moritz Wirth June 10, 1999 Frankfurt, GER 2019 Bayreuth Tigers 6 German Kevin Maginot July 25, 1994 Mannheim, GER 2019 Löwen Frankfurt 7 German Jan Pavlu...
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    then proposed two fortified regions. The Maginot Line, as it came to be called, (named after André Maginot the former Minister of War) thereafter occupied...
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  • misjudge German plans such as their sweep through the Ardennes around the Maginot Line. May's specialty of studying the effects of intelligence failures...
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    "Historical Role of French Fortresses". This was a popular topic because of the Maginot Line which was then being planned, but he argued that the aim of fortresses...
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    Continental System, Napoleon's blockade of the British Empire Siegfried line Maginot line Mareth line The coast defence along the North Cape down to the Spanish...
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    Weygand Line on 9 June and finished on 17 June with the encirclement of the Maginot Line defences and the remaining French forces. Despite the success of the...
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    of the object attained". If a purely defensive position was taken the Maginot Line would be broken, and the British Army (with anti-aircraft defence)...
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  • most nations. France has powerful and resistant bunkers, such as the "Maginot" bunker, named for the defensive line on Alsace-Lorraine pre-World War...
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    gain time for General Robert Touchon's Sixth Army to redeploy from the Maginot Line to the Aisne. General Georges told him it was his chance to implement...
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    far as to deride conventional aircraft, unfavourably comparing to the Maginot Line, as static and highly vulnerable. In preparation for flying the Kestrel...
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    on 3 September 1939, around 30% of Moselle's territory lay between the Maginot Line and the German frontier. 302,732 people, around 45% of the department's...
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  • butterfly zoo in London. Segments on a man-made phenomena include the Maginot Line; the Edsel; a robot family built in France 200 years ago; a modern...
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  • demonstrated in this exchange: Mainwaring: They'll never get through the Maginot Line. Wilson: Haven't you heard... They went around the side. Mainwaring:...
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  • the nuclear deterrence policies of the Eisenhower administration to the Maginot Line, demanding that the West undertake an offensive foreign policy to...
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    of a network of fortresses along its German border. It was called the Maginot Line and was trusted to compensate for the heavy manpower losses of the...
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  • draft. Effectively volunteering for duty, Oppen saw active service on the Maginot Line and the Ardennes; he was seriously wounded near Bad Urach Germany...
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    Siegfried Line, their fortified defensive line along the French border. At the Maginot Line on the other side of the border, French troops stood facing them,...
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    professional news sources. He compares the "Great Firewall of China" to the Maginot Line as both were built to protect from external threats but that is not...
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  • forest battles, an amphibious landing, and a fort line similar to the Maginot Line. The country of Gallia drew inspiration from smaller countries of...
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  • found few readers but his documentation of his work with the medium Adele Maginot were at once amongst the most remarkable and the best-attested documents...
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    Division was sent to the Saar to assist the French Army garrison on the Maginot Line while the rest of the BEF deployed along the French—Belgian border...
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    everything was finally resolved in 1951. In the 1930s, France built the Maginot Line, an elaborate system of static border defences that was designed to...
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    and captured it on 2 December, after house-to-house fighting. Reaching Maginot fortifications on 5 December, it regrouped, entering Sarreguemines on 8...
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    Agincourt – Buoux (FRA) – 1989 – Third-ever consensus 8c (5.14b), by Ben Moon. Maginot Line (Plafond) – Volx (FRA) – 1989 – Fourth-ever consensus 8c (5.14b),...
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  • France established an elaborate system of static border defences called the Maginot Line, designed to fight off any German attack. It followed the German border...
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  • Treaty limitations on German armaments. France poured its money into the Maginot Line, a vast defensive system that covered France's border with Germany...
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  • Edward Channing, American historian and author (b. 1856) 1932 – André Maginot, French sergeant and politician (b. 1877) 1936 – Guy d'Hardelot, French...
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  • required.) "RITTER VON LEEB, A FIELD MARSHALL; Commander in Drive Through Maginot Line Dies--Ousted for Failure at Leningrad Lost Hitler's Trust Stopped...
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  • Stalin. The French plans were largely based on a static defense behind the Maginot Line – a series of formidable defensive forts along the French-German border...
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