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Not to stir the pot but it actually did work.
From the where the Germans attacked the heaviest defensive positions along the French German border from the Luxembourg to the Swiss border the french were able to stop the attacks.
The Germans attacked the the Maginot line on the Rhine river at Marckolsheim and Near Lembach and the advances were halted or slowed down. The Germans also suffered high casualties when attacking some of the forts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marckolsheim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lembach
It is also important to note that most of the big forts held out against the Germans until the armistice.
It was not the Maginot line that failed it was the french tactics and Strategies. It was the strong fortifications along the french German border that helped channel the German attack through Belgium
It s also important to note that the line between France and Belgium were the weakest and the newest, in some cases they were still under construction. The Germans took advantage of this.
Cabal
Depends. As a defense line it was impossible to break through so it worked, however it was built on past war experiences and on the belief that the Germans would respect this time the neutrality of the lower countries. The Germans, not being stupid, made plans that did not include respecting international law and developed a brand new way of making war to go around it. So it worked in that it stopped the Nazis from crossing there, it didn't stop the invasion.
?
No. A new style of warfare (Blitzkreig or lightning warfare) was introduced by Germany at the beginning of WWII. They used their tanks, etc., to essentially go around the Maginot line (through Belgium, etc.) and into France. This style of warfare put an end to the traditional 'trench warfare' so common in WWI.
Locke
Hardly!
After WWI the French decided that the best way to defend against a German attack would be to line the entire French-German border with entrenched bunkers, machine gun nests, tunnels, etc.
Unfortunately, they decided to not cover the massive Ardennes forest, of which the Germans then used to completely outflank the Maginot Line, completely nullifying its purpose.
Legion
No it didn't , The Germans took France going through Belgium. i left you a wiki Link, Because I don't have time to look up .Edu's