The Maginot Line - France's defensive bulwark SWR documentary
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The Maginot Line is a gigantic fortification: thousands of underground bunkers, artillery works, casemates and shelters that stretch more than 700 kilometers along the French border from Belgium to the Mediterranean. Celebrated as a technical masterpiece and glorified as impregnable, it today also represents the trauma of the French defeat in 1940. The documentary paints a picture of a structure that is as fascinating as it is controversial. France after the First World War: 1.4 million soldiers have fallen, large parts of northern France have been devastated. To protect the country from another war of aggression, politicians and the military rely on a heavily fortified defense line. The project is implemented by War Minister André Maginot, who gives the line its name. This is how the Maginot Line is created, with thousands of underground artillery works, casemates and shelters that stretch more than 700 kilometers along the French border from Belgium to the Mediterranean. Maginot Line: More than 20,000 construction workers in action The construction cost the equivalent of two to three billion euros, more than 20,000 construction workers are in action. The Maginot Line is a masterpiece of engineering with the most modern technology at the time and is celebrated as impregnable. With the help of archive material and spectacular drone footage as well as contemporary witnesses, historians and enthusiasts on site who are committed to preserving the Maginot Line, the documentary paints a picture of a structure that is as fascinating as it is controversial. This documentary by Grit Lederer was shown on 19.09.22 on ERSTER in the series: Mysterious Places and has the original title: The Maginot Line. #swrdoku #swr #lostplace All statements and facts correspond to the status at the time and have not been updated since then. Subscribe to the channel: / swrdoku You can find more documentaries on our channel or in the ARD Mediathek at https://www.ardmediathek.de/swr/swr-d...
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