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== Purposes == The Maginot Line was built to fulfill several purposes: * To prevent a German surprise attack. * To deter a cross-border assault.{{sfn|Roth|2010|p=6}} * To protect [[Alsace]] and [[Lorraine (province)|Lorraine]] (returned to France in 1918) and their industrial basin.{{sfn|Kaufmann|Kaufmann|2006|loc=Introduction}} * To save manpower (France counted 39 million inhabitants, Germany 70 million). * To slow an attack to permit the mobilisation of the French Army{{sfn|Kaufmann|Kaufmann|2006|p=5}} (which took between two and three weeks). * To push Germany into an effort to circumvent via Switzerland or Belgium,{{sfn|Kaufmann|Kaufmann|2006|p=122}} and allow France to fight the next war off French soil to avoid a repeat of 1914β1918.{{sfn|Roth|2010|p=6}} * To be used as a basis for a counter-offensive.{{sfn|Romanych|Rupp|2010|p=8}}
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