Pervitine gave the German soldiers an impression of power and invincibility, hence a greater aggressiveness in combat because they had the impression that they were invulnerable to balls (This was only an impression, because nearly 50,000 German soldiers were killed in the battle of France in six weeks of combat, This also explains a higher rate of German losses than during the first six months of the 1941 Russian campaign, by comparison the French had 61,000 soldiers killed and the American in 11 years of war in the Viet Name from 1962 to 1973 57,000 soldiers killed) . This assurance of the doped German soldiers capable of incredible audacities has puzzled the French soldiers and the French command the myth of the invincibility of the Wermacht is partly explained by these impressions. In addition, pervitine giving endurance and also preventing sleep, the Germans were able to chain up the non-stop and night marches so that they could reach the Meuse in 3 days while the French command expected a delay of 8 days , The European Commission has been working on this subject since"German army with tanks and planes, unlike 1914, to redeploy the French troops concentrated in the north when the front was pierced at Sedan, whereas in 1914, Before the Battle of the Marne, the French command had 3 three weeks of respite from the slower German advance to redeploy, reorganize and counter-attack on the Marne. In doing so, the German soldiers also became addicted over time which generated behaviors difficult to manage when they were no longer supplied with pervitine and now of many historians attribute to the lack of effects of this drug, the abuses of German soldiers, especially on civilian populations as much if not more than the fanaticism of the Nazi regime.

Indeed the French army has formidable resist the German offensive from February to December 1916 in Verdun which was a real hell (scientists calculated that the total load of shells dropped in 9 months of combat was equivalent to 7 times the atomic bomb of Hiroshima to such an extent that the soil being so polluted 9 villages around Verdun totally destroyed were never rebuilt but that in tribute they keep with their name their status of commune in France which has thus ghost villages without inhabitants).But to be completely exact, the French army which had resisted alone from February to June 1916 to the deluge of German fire and the German offensives, was also saved by General Broussilov’s Russian offensive on the Eastern Front in June 1916, forcing the Germans to withdraw troops and guns from Verdun and redeploy them east; The Germans gradually reducing their numbers, the French were able to counter-attack and regain the ground lost at the end of 1916 with the offensives of General Nivelle. The Russians had already saved the French army in the summer of 1914 by disrupting the initial German plan to make it look like an attack in Lorraine and to attack massively by surprise by Belgium in order to take back the French army (the Germans will do the opposite in May 1940 by making it appear that they attack in Belgium to attack massively in the Ardennes);The Germans thought that they could quickly mobilize all their manpower and means against France in order to crush it quickly in a few weeks before turning around then against Russia because according to them, it would take several weeks for France’s ally Russia to mobilize. But the Russians managed to mobilize quickly and immediately went on the offensive in the east in August 1914, forcing the Germans to divide their troops The French had time using the peculiarity of the French railway network that goes star from Paris to push back their armies from the border to concentrate them on Paris in order to avoid that they were surrounded for once gathered in Paris against massively attacking on the Marne in September 1914 as much as the German army had begun to lose numbers Redeployed east against the Russians.But the military situation was not the same in May 1940 as in September 1914 because the Germans had taken care to destroy this time with aviation that did not exist in 1914 as a weapon of war, The French rail network was designed to avoid a scenario similar to that of their defeat on the Marne; But also a little emphasized aspect was in the years preceding the conflict, the bankruptcy of French diplomacy which is excessively subject to the orders of the British government because under the harmful influence of the secretary general of the quai d'Orsay Alexis Léger patented , France has deprived itself in order to satisfy the English of other alternative alliances than those of the English so that it has gradually closed itself in the only English alliance which Proven poor performance and unreliable,losing first the precious and decisive Russian alliance of the 1st world war because the British anti-communist leaders did not want an alliance of France itself allied with the USSR . Thus, Stalin rejected by the French and British in 1935 allied with Hitler in 1939 so that unlike 1914 and 1916, the Germans no longer having to fear on the Eastern front facing Russia and no longer having to divide their troops, could throw the whole of their army against the numerically weaker French army (93 French divisions against 145 German divisions France 41 million inhabitants and Germany 60 million inhabitants The numerical inferiority of the French will not be compensated by the British who will send only 11 divisions to France instead of the 45 promised divisions (while Britain at the time had more inhabitants than France, 49 million British versus 41 million French, by comparison in 1914-In 1918 the British had sent 85 divisions to France and Italy ).) ;Then the British urged France to condemn and vote economic sanctions against Mussolini’s Italy after the 1936 Italian invasion of Ethiopia while Italy was allied with France since 1915 and that Mussolini had mobilized his army against Hitler in 1934, which foiled a first attempt to annex Austria.Thus in 1936, Mussolini’s Italy allied with France threw itself into the arms of Hitler and became the enemy of France. Thus "then Italy had remained neutral in 1914," which allowed France to concentrate its armies in the north and north-east against the Germans alone, in 1939-In 1940 France had to extend the defence of its borders to the Alps in the south-east and deploy troops opposite the Italian border which had not been the case in 1914.The Italians have France was attacked on 10 June 1940, so that the 180,000 French soldiers of the Army of the Alps, if they successfully defended the border against the Italians, were reinforced by German divisions were fixed in the Alps and could not be used as reserve troops to counter the German offensive in the north and north east We must also take into account the threat to southern France but especially in Morocco of Spain of general Franco close to the German and Italian regimes while Spain as Italy were The European Community has been neutral since 1914. France must thus mobilize 120,000 men of General Nogues to ensure the defense of Morocco, who will also be missing on the front in France. in May June 1940 because Franco in the spring of 1940 as Mussolini in September 1939 declared his country "non-belligerent" but not neutral and the Spaniards occupied the city of Tangier in Morocco, hence the choice to designate Marshal Pétain as head of government because he knew personally Franco ppour In the 1920s, he fought in Morocco against the rebellion of Abd El Krim and was French ambassador to Spain in 1939 to dissuade him from attacking French North Africa. It is necessary to add a certain English duplicity that under the pretext of preventing France from dominating the European continent after its victory in 1918, refused the English military guarantee to France in violation of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 in case of German attack and then supported for 20 years the German rearmament Suddenly in March 1939 to hostility towards Germany then wanted to use France as a buffer state in order to use the German army before an attack against Britain .The British do not send the number of divisions planned in France (11 instead of 45) Hence the violent altercation between Pétain and Churchill at Briare on 11 June 1940 when he asked the French to continue fighting alone despite his refusal to leave aviation in France The British troops withdrew from Dunkirk and Narvik in Norway. " Where are your 40 divisions promised? "answers Pétain.It is now known that Churchill had already sent a message to General Gort, commander of the British expeditionary force in France, on 14 May 1940, in order not to be translated by the French secret services, He asked him to withdraw the British troops to the ports in northern France in order to reembark avoiding confrontations with the Germans so as to have the least losses. The British withdrew from the front without informing the French command who learned by chance, alerted by a French officer to whom a friend of English officer came to say goodbye. Thus, the English will literally sabotage at Arras the counter-attack set up by the French general Weygand . Churchill after defending Lord Gort accused by the French command of having backed off during the counter-attack is forced in the face of multiple testimonies to order an investigation into the behaviour of Lord Gort (which he is very careful to dismiss from his command because the latter obeyed his secret orders and the investigation will obviously be without follow-up ) .Finally, the double game led by Churchill will end up awakening the suspicions of members of the French government and weaken supporters of the British alliance as the head of the government French Reynaud, Ministers like Mandel and de Gaulle after the English meeting in Dunkirk, Finally, the other members of the French government, grouped around Marshal Pétain, who have no confidence in maintaining the English alliance and are supporters of the armistice with Germany. It was the secretary general of the French government, Baudoin who would bring about the resignation of Reynaud and the defeat of the supporters of the English alliance in a cabinet meeting on 16 June 1940 with his sentence "The English will fight to the last French soldier."

@@domitiusafer yes, thé Brit’s we’re not too keen on fighting the Germans either. Their rivalry with France was also an obstacle. That’s why De Gaule didn’t want the brute in the EU because he experienced their lack of faithfulness first hand. They never had both feet in the EU and had a special treatment, yet they left anyway to revive their empire. It is interesting to know that in spite of having a desdain for the French and De Gaulle, he still informed are Gaulle that the US was going to take control of France and cut it in pieces, mostly to access the French colonies without the French in the way. Churchill probably knew he could not fully trust the US after being forced to give up the commonwealth so that the US could access their empire without the Brit’s in the way to receive military aid in 1940… so in the end, I can see how the Brit’s underperformed because they were playing their so games in one. It fits their attitude before and after WW2 all the way to the Brexit (superiority complex?). When they drilled the euro tunnel, French papers celebrated it by showing a picture of a pass with a rugby ball at the junction. The Brit’s showed a guillotine on the French side of the tunnel. I also remember how for the rugby World Cup, some British colleagues would say that they hoped the French would lose and anyone else could win the cup but the French… so much hate for the French two centuries after Napoleon!… yes it was ok with him that Australian would call northwest hemisphere rugby decadent… including English rugby as long as the French would not win… anyway… countries tend to serve their own interests even if they call themselves allies. All goes well until water becomes scarce… then people turn to animals. The view of the French by the us was also never really good in spite of the fact that Lafayette helped them. They became an obstacle for the US to access the world and their Amgot plan along with the fact that the my paid the Germans to spy on them not so long ago…among other things… not accepting that the French follow orders would result in an anti French sentiment (freedom fries for not attacking Iraq for non existent WMDs). And blaming the French for the rise of hitler ignoring the effect of the 1928 crisis which is what really made the price of butter rise to 1 million Mark… in the early 30d… anyway, nice to see that some people try to be not objective. Truth is every country has their dark side and good sides. The important idea is to remain open to hearing things that may, if true, change our way of thinking of the country we like the most. We mostly enfer it the world we live in, good or bad so let’s not take ownership of lies and old hate based on things we had nothing to do with from before were born. WW2, napoleon, former colonies, Vietnam… it’s all over and done. Let’s not make fun of or hate countries because if things the leaders of our grand parents did (not even related to those leaders for 99.999999% of them)…