The shells are actually meant for a giant German World War II railway cannon, and a despotic madman is not hesitant to use the weapon against the government of the small state of Kampong to underscore his demands.
They were developed in the late 1930s by Krupp as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the strongest fortifications then in existence.
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In 1934 the German Army High Command (OKH) commissioned Krupp of Essen to design a gun to destroy the forts of the French Maginot Line which were nearing completion.
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