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Built between 1928 and 1938, and named after World War I hero and veteran’s pension Minister Andre Maginot, the Maginot Line was the cutting edge in military engineering. Consisting of over 150,000 tons of steel, 1 million cubic yards of concrete, and 300 miles of roads, tunnels, and railroads, and built at a cost of 5 billion francs, the Maginot Line was quite impressive. Made of works called ouvrages, which could vary in size from small pillboxes to massive forts with numerous artillery pieces and mortars, the Maginot Line did not extend the entire length of France’s eastern border as many think. It covered a small section of the border with Belgium, almost all of the Franco-German border (with the exception of a gap along the Sarre River), and the Alpine passes along the Italian border.