Maginot Line – fortification system constructed by the French along the eastern border to Germany during the 1930s, which the Germans forces easily outflanked in 1940. Maidanek – a site in occupied Poland near Lublin which was formerly a Nazi labor camp. Maidanek was transformed into an extermination facility (death camp) under the administrative leadership of Odilo Globocnik and ultimately upwards of 1.5 million persons were killed there, most by gassing.