You hear, Gentlemen? It is a new evidence that I have always been right! The French are, after us, the best soldiers! Even with its current birthrate, France will always be able to mobilise a hundred divisions! After this war, we will have to find allies able to contain a country which is capable of military exploits that astonish the world like they are doing right now in Bir-Hakeim!Koch, Lutz, Rommel, (1950) Generalmajor Friedrich von Mellenthin wrote in his mémoirs Panzer Battles,[I]n the whole course of the desert war, we never encountered a more heroic and well-sustained defence.
You hear, Gentlemen? It is a new evidence that I have always been right! The French are, after us, the best soldiers! Even with its current birthrate, France will always be able to mobilise a hundred divisions! After this war, we will have to find allies able to contain a country which is capable of military exploits that astonish the world like they are doing right now in Bir-Hakeim!Koch, Lutz, Rommel, (1950) Generalmajor Friedrich von Mellenthin wrote in his mémoirs Panzer Battles,[I]n the whole course of the desert war, we never encountered a more heroic and well-sustained defence.