No, not at all. Again, the Maginot Line was built from WWI experience when large infantry armies fought slow battles. Tanks were not considered at all during the planning of the wall and also during construction, the line got more expensive and compromises had to be made. But in the end, the Maginot Line did what it was supposed to do and forced a considerable part of the german invasion force through Belgium, where the Allies waited for them.
However, that was kind of futile since the Panzerkorps blitzed through a weak point in the line in the Ardennes, cutting off allied forces in Belgium and forcing/letting them retreat onlyover the channel. After that, France couldn’t mount another defense and had to capitulate.
However however, some artillery forts were never destroyed by the Wehrmacht. They proved themselves to be hard to capture, some didn’t stop flying the french flag. But they were too insignificant for the most time so the germans didn’t care a a lot. Rather, those forts were cut off from the rest and the crews were locked and besieged. Some had supplies for another few months but mounting more resistance would have been senseless in the face of the french capitulation.
And wasn’t the Maginot Line still effective at preventing the German army from just waltzing directly into France during WWII?
No, not at all. Again, the Maginot Line was built from WWI experience when large infantry armies fought slow battles. Tanks were not considered at all during the planning of the wall and also during construction, the line got more expensive and compromises had to be made. But in the end, the Maginot Line did what it was supposed to do and forced a considerable part of the german invasion force through Belgium, where the Allies waited for them.
However, that was kind of futile since the Panzerkorps blitzed through a weak point in the line in the Ardennes, cutting off allied forces in Belgium and forcing/letting them retreat onlyover the channel. After that, France couldn’t mount another defense and had to capitulate.
However however, some artillery forts were never destroyed by the Wehrmacht. They proved themselves to be hard to capture, some didn’t stop flying the french flag. But they were too insignificant for the most time so the germans didn’t care a a lot. Rather, those forts were cut off from the rest and the crews were locked and besieged. Some had supplies for another few months but mounting more resistance would have been senseless in the face of the french capitulation.