Did Blind Guardian think This is Spinal Tap was a real documentary
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
There are historical inaccuracies in the lyric --- Lynott mentions "Hitler’s stormtroopers march/ Right across the Maginot Line”, but the French fortifications failed miserably as a deterrent to German invaders, who simply circumvented them by attacking through Belgium. Also he notes this as ”The year one thousand nine hundred and thirty nine" but the Germans moved against the French in 1940, not 1939.
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I don't see it as a inconsistency.
He says he was in Berlin in 1939, he doesn't say he was at the Maginot Line in 1939.
Each other line in that verse is about a separate event, so is this.