Editing Maginot Line (section)

=== After World War II ===
[[File:maginot line 2.jpg|thumb|The view from a battery at Ouvrage Schoenenbourg in Alsace. A retractable turret is in the left foreground.]]

After the war, the French re-manned the line and undertook some modifications. With the advent of [[force de frappe|French]] [[nuclear weapons]] in the early 1960s, the line became an expensive anachronism. Some of the larger ''ouvrages'' were converted to command centres. When France withdrew from [[NATO]]'s military component in 1966, much of the line was abandoned, with the NATO facilities turned back over to French forces and the rest of it auctioned off to the public or left to decay.{{sfn|Seramour|2007|pp=86–97}} A number of old fortifications have now been turned into [[wine cellar]]s, a [[Fungiculture|mushroom farm]], and even a [[Discotheque|disco]]. Besides that, a few private houses are built atop some blockhouses.{{sfn|Chelminski|1997|loc=abstract}}

[[File:Ligne Maginot - Four à Chaux (Alsace) bloc 5.jpg|thumb|View of the village of Lembach in Alsace (north-east), taken from combat unit number 5 of the fortress [[ouvrage Four-à-Chaux]]]]

[[Ouvrage Rochonvillers]] was retained by the [[French Army]] as a command centre into the 1990s but was deactivated following the disappearance of the Soviet threat. [[Ouvrage Hochwald]] is the only facility in the main line that remains in active service as a hardened command facility for the [[French Air Force]] known as [[Drachenbronn Air Base|Drachenbronn Airbase]].

In 1968, when scouting locations for ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'', producer [[Harry Saltzman]] used his French contacts to gain permission to use portions of the Maginot Line as [[SPECTRE]] headquarters in the film. Saltzman provided [[art director]] [[Syd Cain]] with a tour of the complex. Still, Cain said that the location would be challenging to light and film inside and that artificial sets could be constructed at the studios for a fraction of the cost.{{sfn|Cain|2005|p=??}} The idea was shelved.