Here are the best Maginot Line Memes that best describe one of the most significant military blunders of WWII. When we think about the Maginot Line and its role in WWII, we inevitably remember how easy it was for the Germans to simply go around it.
In one ingenious maneuver, the Nazis knocked out France in less than a month, and what is more funny, is that the Maginot line didn’t play any major role.
This Maginot Line memes accurately cover both the lack of vision of the French, and the ingeniosity of the Germans/Wehrmacht.
- The Maginot Line was not completely useless, it did help stop Mussolini’s in Southern France, proving both its efficiency and the incompetence of the Italian army.
- More exactly through the Ardennes forest. And you know what? This trick was used twice in WWII. Second time, during the Battle of the Bulge.
- Its original purpose was indeed to force the Germans to attack through Belgium, like in 1914.
- Don’t know why the guy with the good plan was fired, it was a brilliant idea.
- Many WWII historians still debate if Manstein or Hitler were the masterminds behind the Fall of France.
- Not only that we will bypass it, but we will also use 7 Panzer divisions.
- Indeed, not even the Wehrmacht commanders thought that France would fall so easily.
- Again, this time Belgium was only used as bait, while the center of the attack was in the Ardennes forests.
- Some of the Maginot line fortresses were attacked from behind by the Germans, but with little success.
- Defeating France like a boss
- Manstein and Guderian had other opinions.
- Better, Hitler when he learns from Manstein how he can crush France.
- Very nice defensive line you have there…
- The mastermind behind the Maginot line, Andre Maginot, the French Minister of War.
- Lack of vision of the French commanders, in a nutshell…
- The Germans didn’t exactly repeat the 1914 scenario, it’s more like an improved version after the adoption of the Manstein Plan.
- Better get ready your white flags.
- De Gaulle, unlike other French commanders, was a strong supporter of a motorized French army, more suitable for modern warfare.
- At the time of the invasion of France, many of the German Panzer divisions still consisted of mainly light tanks.
- When France leaves only 2 infantry divisions to guard the Ardennes…
- True
- Germany after successfully flanking the Maginot Line…
- Too late France…
- Plans for extending the Maginot line did exist, but they came too late…
- Imagine, either Manstein or Rundstedt as a football manager
- What is more intriguing, France did have better quality tanks than the Germans, so their situation was not completely hopless
- Maginot Line versus the Atlantic Wall.
- And the winner is…
- The purpose of the Maginot line was not to keep the Germans out of France.
- Not only Panzers but also the Luftwaffe.
- When Andre Maginot has an ingenious plan…
- Flanking the Maginot Line in a nutshell.
We hope that this collection of Maginot Line memes was both funny and interesting for you and why not I am sure it will also be interesting for history buffs.