re: Can anyone explain Alabama fans’ infatuation with using French heritage as an insult?

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France believed the Maginot Line would stop any direct attack from the West

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Actually, they didn't. The Maginot Line was a propaganda boondoggle, it was never completed because the cost was so high. No military man thought it would protect France against a determined attack. It was hoped that it would comfort the citizenry.

France was largely agrarian in the early 20th century, and had a fraction of the population, industrial capacity and GDP of Germany. There were 42 million in France in 1939, as opposed to 69 million in Germany.