It’s been said, “one French platoon”. That’s probably an exaggeration, but a battalion…. Point is, if even one platoon had resisted, it could be presumed they had backup coming and it would be in battalion(s) strength, then army.
That it didn’t happen meant the generals were convinced to believe Hitler’s judgment on other items–not necessarily the rivets and bolts of the next tank design–but his judgment of, say, Stalin’s purge. (Faked up by Gehlen for the notably paranoid Stalin? Heard that.)

Zaphod. Nobody likes Cossacks. I’ll be seeing “Fiddler on The Roof” shortly and imagine a reference therein. But…King Phillip’s War killed ten percent of the men of military age of the Massachusetts colony. Which means at least the same number were wounded and survived. Which means at least half were shot at.
No help from Mother England. But victorious. Could make the case that it militarized US society for centuries. See “Conquered Into Liberty” for, among other things, that subject.
My father’s division commander, Terry Allen, was a lifer’s kid and, as was said, grew up playing with the children of the hard old Indian fighting army. Connecting back maybe 275 years to King Phillip. His son was killed in Viet Nam.
That said, the US and Prussia have taken different paths, for nations annealed by foreign threats.

Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

–Shakespeare, “King Lear”

–Richard Aubrey

Art Deco’s usual pedantics aside, I’ve read other accounts in which this was a key event leading to WW II and it wouldn’t have taken much Allied resistance to have stopped Hitler cold.

And that, Dear Friends is a very hackable state of affairs. All you need is one dishonorable demagogue such as a Hitler or a Roosevelt and we’re off to the races.

Something for all the CivNat ‘Honorable’ and ‘That’s not Who We Are’ Folks to consider.

Bastardry has its place. Always and everywhere.

To understand the Germans up until the point they were emasculated post 45, you have to get your head into the Napoleonic Space and *those* Freikorps. That changed everything. I’d argue far more than the Thirty Years War and Westphalia. Sprinkle a bit of 1848 seasoning and Bob’s yer Uncle. Wasn’t all Romberg’s Student Prince.

To grok Prussians, you have to know what it was like to have the Cossacks descend on you during the early part of Frederick the Great’s reign. That does things to one’s outlook on life. Ask Max Boot 😛

Anyway… now they’re gone. They don’t breed. And nor do the French. Or anyone else like us.

@Hubert: Indeed.. What American Empire? Show me the big American Empire Sign! 🙂

As to the officers in 36, easy enough to find out for the layman, such as me.

Whose fault was Versailles, that flawed treaty which humiliated the Germans and practically forced them to start another war? The Pope’s?

Show your work.

But blaming the hideously wounded barely victorious Allies for being annoyed with the Germans doesn’t make much sense.

Why not try responding to things I actually said and not the voices in your head?

The event in question occurred in 1936, three years before the war.

So what?

The constituent assembly at Weimar might have made a better choice than national-list PR, a fairly unusual system and one not in use in Wilhelmine Germany. No clue why that’s a mystery to you.