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Subject: Re: A High Tech Maginot Line
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 21:37:40 EST
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> start of WWII.  The French had built an "impregnable" defensive system
> along the German border called the Maginot Line.  But the German Panzer
> Army was a development in warfare technology that the Maginot Line was
> not prepared for and the German Armies ran right through it.  If we

The Germans went AROUND the Maginot Line not through it!

>  We had better try to learn from history.

Maybe some of us better learn our history first. :-) (?)

						-taw