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The Poles have the misfortune of being the mom and pop general store located in between K-Mart and Wal-Mart - it's all in the numbers.

I dunno about that "cowards" bit - they sent horse mounted calvalry against the German tank corps. The logical question that brings up is "Where is the line between valiant bravery and absolute stupidity?", but that's for another time.

Buff's initial assumption - that Hitler rolled through Europe because Europeans are pussies - is almost as superficial as his assumption about the Spanish elections. That the French were overly cautious cannot be disputed - the failure to destroy Hitler when Germany reoccupied the Rhineland because they could not get British backing was a grave mistake. That the tactical decisions made by the French High Command (hiding behind the wall, as opposed to reading the works of one French Col. DeGaulle's treatise on tank warfare that the Germans certainly paid attention to) was absolute folly cannot be questioned, either.

However (and in no particular order) - the inability of Great Britian to meet their military obligations (thus causing Munich), the relative population differences between France and Germany, the devastating effects of having fought the bulk of the western front fighting in WWI on French soil, the traitorous effect that Nazi sympathizers and other right-wingers had on the goverment and the French public, and above all, the absolute unwillingness of the French and British to negotiate in good failth with the USSR, all played as much of a role in the fate of Europe in 1940 as any inherent "pussy" qualities that the Eurpoeans may possess.