[Historical] The Saar Offensive Sign in to follow this . I tried, above, in the Timeline post, to narratively weave the Saar Offensive and the Polish campaign (won, essentially, in 18 days). On 7 September, French forces advanced beyond the Maginot Line into the Saar.
Only once the total defeat of Polish arms was evident did the French finally call off any forward action into Germany. The Saar Offensive was a French ground operation into Saarland, Germany, during the early stages of World War II, from 8 to 17 October 1938. Witzleben, who had actually retired from the service some years earlier, was hardly suited to a field command.
TL;DR Had the French continued with the Saar Offensive, Germans would have stopped the French Army at the Siegfried Line. They halted on 12 September, having moved about 8 km along a line of about 12 km, and ‘taken’ a handful of abandoned German villages. The scope of the Saar Offensive was limited. It seems likely that this is the case. This area of Saarland was defended by the German 1st Army.The purpose of the attack was to help Poland, which was under attack at the time. In this timeline, the French mobilize pre-emptively and decide to persist with their original plan for the Saar Offensive with a full forty division force with a great deal of armour and air support. The threat of an aggressive French offensive plagued the First Army commander daily. Followers 0 [Historical] The Saar Offensive.
The Saar Offensive was a French ground offensive (attack) into Saarland during World War II.It was done from 7 to 16 September 1939. The Siegfried Line is reached swiftly due to token resistance but stops there temporarily as heavy guns are brought up to breach the defences and secure a breach through the line.
11 French division marched eight km into Germany against weak German opposition. The Saar Offensive was a French operation into the Saarland on the German 1.Armee defence sector in the early stages of World War II.The purpose of the attack was to assist Poland, which was then under attack.However, the assault was stopped and the French forces withdrew. Having already drawn up plans for just such a situation, Patton told Bradley that in addition to the 10th Armored, he could have three more divisions––the 4th Armored, 26th Infantry, and 80th Infantry––all moving north within the next 24 hours.
The End of the Third Army’s Saar Offensive.
The general consistently found himself in uninspired assignments, and the Saar posting was no exception. The French had no plans and no means to enlarge its scope. This ‘Saar offensive’, which involved only ten divisions, represented the full extent of western assistance to Poland. The purpose of the attack was to assist Czechoslovakia, which was then under invasion.
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