Re: No Hitler: Polish-German Danzig war

"Doug" <douglasx.hoffx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>"Rich Rostrom" <rrostrom.21stcentury@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 

>> The French collapse was not just a physical
>> defeat, it was severely demoralizing. France
>> was supposed to be able to fight hard, but
>> was apparently a pushover.
>>
>> That discredited the government of the Third
>> Republic, and enabled Petain's quasi-coup.
>
>yep, highly demoralizing.  but compare with 1914, when the French
expected 
>elan to carry them to the Rhine, and it was all going south really badly 
>until the Marne.  nobody was talking about tossing the Republic - left, 
>right, and center, it was fight on to the end.  nobody was saying,
'better 
>the Kaiser than Poincare.'
>
>not exactly the same situation as 1940, but I think it displays how
sup****t 
>for the republic had collapsed in the meantime.

Very much not the same situation.

In 1914, the French army made a mistake,
but they recovered from it and drove the
Germans back. In 1940, there was no
recovery, only disaster following disaster.
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