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Though the French would be decisively defeated soon after the Nazi invasion of Belgium and France in early 1940 they had not sat on their hands As the power of Nazi Germany grew alarmingly during the 1930s the French sought means to defend their territory against the rising menace of the Thousand Year Reich As architects of the most punitive measures in the Treaty of Versailles following World War I France was the most natural target for German retribution so the Maginot Line a series of interconnected strongpoints and fortifications running along much of Frances eastern border helped allay French fears of invasion