That’s awesome! (in the actual sense of the word). Thanks for sharing this- if only they’d thought to do the same thing on their border with Belgium...
Belgium was supposed to build similar fortifications along it’s border.
I don’t think they even started the project.
Hitler hated the idea of assaulting fixed defensive positions.
“Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.”
Gen. George S. Patton
What If.
What if Belgium *had* completed their section of fortifications?
Would Hitler have then thrown his entire military might against a weak Soviet Union?
He could have made an agreement with Poland to transport the army through Poland.
Or he could have invaded from Finland, whom he was allied with.
That would have left the western allies without a cause for war.
If so, could he have won?
I enjoy wondering about the what ifs of history.