Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!space From: space@ucbvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: A High Tech Maginot Line Message-ID: <8512021611.AA11378@loral.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 11:11:03 EST Article-I.D.: loral.8512021611.AA11378 Posted: Mon Dec 2 11:11:03 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 04:39:10 EST References: <8512020718.AA15110@s1-b.arpa> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: we_reserve_the_right_to_refuse_service_to_anyone Lines: 7 Your point is well taken, except for the fact that the Germans didn't crash *through* the Maginot Line, they went around it by invading neutral Belgium and out-flanking the defenses the French had built. Apparently the designers hadn't considered that the Germans would violate the neutrality of other nations. jim