Title

Adolf Hitler and General Wilhelm Keitel inspecting the Maginot Line, France, 1940. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Adolf Hitler and General Wilhelm Keitel inspecting the Maginot Line, France, 1940. France built the system of fortifications known as the Maginot Line in the 1930s to protect its eastern frontier from invasion. In the event of the actual invasion in 1940, the Germans simply bypassed the supposedly impregnable line. Instead they entered France through the Ardennes, a strategy disregarded by the French due to their belief that the terrain would be impassable for tanks.

Date

1940

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B95_341

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (1,6Mb) / 16,0in x 12,1in / 4809 x 3625 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany building buildings people male man men German politics country French France Austria guy occupation fortress fortification Austrian war front location century inspecting staff occupied general soldiers soldier invasion concept inspection B&W 1940s MONOCHROME Army warfare Forties World War II World War two WWII Nazi black & white black and white B W world war 2 political party 20th century dictator Fascism Nazis Nazism Art Media chancellor decade Maginot Line national socialism Second World War TGN Western Front WW2 Adolf Hitler Wilhelm Keitel photograph 2nd World War Unknown Hitler Adolf Wilhelm Keitel Field Marshal Keitel photograph