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From: willner%cfa183@harvard.harvard.edu (Steve Willner)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Vacation in France?
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Date: 9 Aug 89 03:58:00 GMT
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From: willner%cfa183@harvard.harvard.edu (Steve Willner)
Sorry this is a bit late, but any readers vacationing in eastern France
may be interested to know that many of the fortifications of the
Maginot line can be toured.  Guidebooks list the locations, while local
tourist offices or a phone call are the best source for finding out the
times of tours.  Tours in French are frequent, in German less so, and
in English very infrequent (perhaps just once or twice a day).

The fortifications are well worth seeing if you are in the area.  They
are impressive for their advanced technology as well as their sheer
scale.  They are also a sobering reminder (if I can slip a little
political content past the moderator :-) ) that high technology is no
substitute for an intelligent strategy.