'The leaves are falling and you will fall like them...'
So read the leaflets dropped by the Germans over the Maginot Line in the autumn of 1939. To the French soldiers manning what they thought was the strongest chain of fortresses in the world, the words seemed an empty threat. Yet by the following June, the Maginot Line and France had fallen to Germany.
The Maginot Line still survives. It's visited by tourists, souvenir hunters and those who remember the battles and their comrades who fell. Tonight's film tells the story of the Maginot Line and is all the more intriguing because it was made by a German...
Introduced by Derek Hart