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Fort Eben Emael, Fortress Series
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At the outbreak of World War II, Fort Eben Emael in Belgium was the strongest fortress in the world, and it lay exactly across the German invasion route of Belgium and France. The fort's elimination was essential for the success of Hitler's invasion of the West. Deemed impregnable to conventional attack, Hitler himself suggested the means for its capture with the first glider-borne assault in military history. On 10 May 1940, ten gliders carrying just 77 paratrooper... >Voir plus
Both Belgium and Holland realized that they lay in the path of a German invasion of France, but deceived themselves into believing that a policy of strict neutrality would forestall the inevitable.