The fall of France in 1940 was half German operational brilliance and half French failure and incompetence.

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• Britain and France's refusal to negotiate seriously with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1939 was the great missed opportunity to snooker the Third Reich. JHJames Holland24 May 2025
• Operation Barbarossa should never have come close to being a victory; the Germans got as far as they did because of Red Army and Soviet incompetence, not German prowess. JHJames Holland24 May 2025
• The familiar narrative of the war — useless Britain, the world's best German army beaten only because Hitler was mad — is an artefact of how the world looked in the 1970s and 1980s, not of how it looked in 1939. JHJames Holland24 May 2025
• Post-unification Germany has made many policy mistakes and lost much former leadership, and much pessimism about it seems justified. TCTyler Cowen28 Sept 2026
• Germany had already lost the war by the beginning of December 1941, once one enemy had become three in six months. JHJames Holland24 May 2025

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