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...Jitteriest was the 998-square-mile Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a peanut squeezed between the cracker-jaws of the Maginot Line and the Westwall. At Schengen, where Luxembourg tapers off to a point between the French and German borders, French and German machine gunners were separated by just 400 yards of no man's land, sat facing each other waiting for orders to fire. The Duchy ordered Schengen evacuated of all foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEUTRALS: War y. War | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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