Very valid, interesting and well documented points, Gentlemen.

So far, I agree with...all of you !

I agree with Slo and Avatar when they say that a large scale offensive, or a stronger and deeper Saar offensive couldn't possibly end upworse than that happened for real.

I agree with Grossborn and Von Run when they insist on how Germany was vulnerable at that time. I'd like to remind that the Siegfried line was only 30% achieved, and that the invasion of Poland left very large section of it unmanned. In 1939 the Siegfried line was very far from being " as intensive and formidable as the Maginot Line".

I also doubt that the German army, which had almost no heavy weapons left in the west, was mechanized enough to very quickly move troops, tanks guns etc from Poland to the west.

I agree with Asterix when he says on the doctrinal flaws that prevented the French army to efficiently drive a large scale combined arms offensive, and also the very deep French political troubles in the 20s and 30s, that lead to a very divided country (look what happened in Spain) – very well explained in Mr Shirer's book "The fall of the 3rd Republic". These could hardly be solved in a few weeks.

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