Fortress Eben Emael was designed to delay indefinitely any German invasion of Belgium and the low countries. It was the Belgian linchpin upon which rested France's vaunted Maginot line. It fell to glider-borne German paratroops in twenty-eight hours. Many experts consider it the most spectacularly successful special Operation in history.
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Fortress Eben Emael was designed to delay indefinitely any German invasion of Belgium and the low countries. It was the Belgian linchpin upon which rested France's vaunted Maginot line. It fell to glider-borne German paratroops in twenty-eight hours. Many experts consider it the most spectacularly successful special Operation in history.
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