Title

Anti-tanks rails, Maginot Line, France, 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Anti-tanks rails, Maginot Line, France, 20th century. 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

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Keystone Archives

Reference

HRM19D84_165

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

35,1Mb (1,6Mb) / 13,8in x 9,9in / 4128 x 2976 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation building buildings country French France railway rail defence fortification military war front location century invasion concept B&W 1940s MONOCHROME Forties World War II World War two WWII black & white black and white B W world war 2 20th century decade Maginot Line military engineering Second World War TGN Western Front WW2 photograph Keystone Archives 2nd World War Unknown Andre Andre Maginot Maginot anti-tank obstacle Andre Maginot photograph