I-49. CORTEGE AND PARADE OF WINNING GERMAN TROOPS IN FRONT OF THE FÜHRER IN WARSAW

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In London and Paris there was shock at the fall of Warsaw, deep sympathy with the fate of the Poles, amazement at the speed of the German advance […], a certain shame at not having helped, or been able to help Poland to resist the onslaught, and, above all, fear that the practitioners of 'lightning war' might turn their weapons and their tactics against the West.

From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, p. 15.

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