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Encyclopedia > Czechoslovak border fortifications

Due to the rising threat of Nazi Germany the Czechoslovak government decided to build a system of border fortifications. It's objective was to prevent the enemy (Germany and Hungary) to take key areas by a sudden attack before the mobilization of Czechoslovak army could be done and enable effective defense until the allies (France) would to help.


The fortifications consist of Heavy objects: isolated Infantry Blockhouses and Forts (connected blockhouses, gun towers, etc.) inspired by the French Maginot Line, Light objects: vz.36 (the so called French type) and modern vz.37 and a system of obstacles (e.g. barbed wire, Czech hedgehogs, anti-tank ditches and also natural obstacles). The Maginot Line (IPA: [maʒino], named after French minister of defence André Maginot) was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, machine gun posts and other defenses which France constructed along its borders with Germany and with Italy, in the light of experience from World War I, and... A selection of forms of barbed wire. ... Antitank hedgehogs in front of Trehgornaya Manufactura in Moscow, Russia D-day beach. ...


The full completion was planed in 1941-42. Until the Munich agreement, only cca 20% of heavy objects and 70% of light objects were completed. Chamberlain holds the paper containing the resolution to commit to peaceful methods signed by both Hitler and himself on his return from Germany in September 1938. ...

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