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Originally Posted by Asterix
...The opposing German defenses relied on a new and disturbing principle, the buried mine[/b][/u][/i]"
"The buried landmine is a nasty weapon whose deployment came as a rude shock to the first French troops to cross the frontier in September 1939."
John Mosier's, "The Blitzkrieg Myth" (The Maginot Line and Hitler's response) page 39.
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Mosier is a idiot. The more I read his text the lower my opinion of his work. Buried antipersonel mines were hardly unknown, or "new" in 1939.