As Adolf Hitler consolidated his power over Germany and pushed his massive political policies to rebuild and rearm the ...

This French line of defense, constructed during the 1930s along the border with Germany, is named after Minister of War André Maginot. It extends from La Ferté to the Rhine River, with sections ...

Having gained the support of the Minister of War André Maginot, namesake for the defensive line, construction began in 1929 and would continue up until the start of World War II in 1939.

As the namesake for the massive line of fortifications intended to stop Germany from ever again overrunning France after the Franco-Prussian and First World Wars, Maginot, who died in 1932, didn't ...

The Atlantic Wall and Maginot Line were on top of the land sitting along the coastline or along a border. They were bunkers and guns built into the rock that could be bombed from the air or pounded by ...

The Maginot Line arose neither from French cowardice nor stupidity. It was conceived because of babies—or rather, a lack of babies. France in 1939 had a population of about forty million.