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...SALE-200 MILES OF MAGINOT LINE. Only slightly used. Can be cut up and made into nice comfortable storm pits, wine cellars or foundations for WPA privies...
Farther south, 50,000 troops of the eastern Maginot garrisons fought a fierce but losing fight on the Maiche Plain before retreating across the border into Switzerland. The onrushing German columns, their tanks and trucks beginning to break down after strenuous campaigning, pushed down through Lyon, "Pittsburgh of France," but a segment of fierce French resistance formed west of there at Clermont-Ferrand and with other French remnants from the Belfort district momentarily pocketed the German elements...
When fighting officially ceased at 1:35 a.m. German summer time on June 25, Maginot Line troops, 150,000 strong, were reported making for Toulon, possibly to take ship for Africa also. The French Army of the Near East under General Eugene Mittelhauser, another 150,000, also repudiated the surrender...
...able to study a certain sector of the 'Little Maginot Line' even more closely than the Belgian positions. ... I should have said that it was even stronger than the Belgian positions. But it lasted no longer...
...fact that the Germans were able to break the Belgian positions in two places-where, incidentally, they seemed to be strongest-and the 'Little Maginot Line,' is not simply an incidental surprise of this war. Its real meaning is that fundamentally our concepts of basic military facts are proved to be largely in error...