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| History | Fortifications & weapons | Tourism on the Line | The Tunnel | |||
 | Underestimated, given back responsible of the disaster of 1940 by an bad-informed public, the Maginot line seemed condemned to the oblivion... Fortunately these last years, many associations undertook to clear works to open them to the public. These museums of the fortification are the memory of the Maginot line. Threw that the reality appears to the contrary of all ideas instilled by a public opinion that, after the war, looked for responsibles to justify the biggest defeat of the French history... |
However, the three quarters of fortresses are still abandoned. Depredations committed by clandestine scrap merchants who, after the departure of the army, dismantled the interior installations and outsides to resell copper, bronze and steel then of vandals who left their garbages or appropriated there many "souvenirs", reduced to the state of wreckages most works. The course of these underground with the only light of a carbide lamp remains a magic experience... |  |
