WI: The Germans attacked the Maginot Line?

Suppose that the German High Command decided that trying to go through the Ardennes was too risky, so they decided to try Blitzkrieg tactics against the Maginot Line? How would the war have gone from there on?
 

Kongzilla

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They get slaughtered. They were outnumbered and out gunned. The only thing they had going for them was surprise. Germany loses. And the world doesn't suffer 60 million casualties.
 

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Suppose that the German High Command decided that trying to go through the Ardennes was too risky, so they decided to try Blitzkrieg tactics against the Maginot Line? How would the war have gone from there on?

Why?
Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line#German_invasion_in_World_War_II
During the advance to the English Channel, the Germans overran France's border defence with Belgium and several Maginot Forts in the Maubeuge area, whilst the Luftwaffe simply flew over it. On 19 May, the German 16th Army successfully captured petit ouvrage La Ferte (southeast of Sedan) after conducting a deliberate assault by combat engineers backed up by heavy artillery. The entire French crew of 107 soldiers was killed during the action. On 14 June 1940, the day Paris fell, the German 1st Army went over to the offensive in "Operation Tiger" and attacked the Maginot Line between St. Avold and Saarbrücken. The Germans then broke through the fortification line as defending French forces retreated southward. In the following days, infantry divisions of the 1st Army attacked fortifications on each side of the penetration; successfully capturing four petits ouvrages. The 1st Army also conducted two attacks against the Maginot Line further to the east in northern Alsace. One attack successfully broke through a weak section of the line in the Vosges Mountains, but a second attack was stopped by the French defenders near Wissembourg. On 15 June, infantry divisions of the German 7th Army attacked across the Rhine River in Operation "Small Bear", penetrating the defences and capturing the cities of Colmar and Strasbourg.
 
The maginot line was a mistake. The only way it was going to be an effective defense was if it was attacked "as intended", which is why that was the last thing the Germans were going to do. Trying to have a breach in the maginot line be the main thrust into France would be costly and essentially an attempt to tackle it 'as intended'.
 
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