Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Wilhelm Keitel and Albert Speer, after it was apparent that the "breakthrough" had failed. Only Speer opposed total conscription, saying it would paralyse the weapons factories and effectively kill the war effort. Goebbels sneered: Then, Herr Speer, you bear the historic guilt for the loss of the war for the lack of a few hundred thousand soldiers. See also French Revolutionary Army Fédérés La patrie en danger Pospolite ruszenie Further reading Cobb, Richard (1987). "Instrument of the Terror in the Departments, April 1793 to Flooreal Year II". The People's Armies: The Armees Revolutionnaires. New Haven: Yale UP. Forrest, Alan. The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Forrest, Alan (1990). The Soldiers of the French Revolution''. Durham: Duke UP. Griffith, Paddy (1998). The Art of War of Revolutionary France: 1798–1802. London: Greenhill. Sources 18th century in France 1793 events of the French Revolution French Revolutionary Wars Military terminology Conscription by country 1793 documents