re: Your favorite weird fact

During the early days of WW2 when the bulk of the German Army was in Poland, France started an offensive in the Saarland but pulled back after Britain refused to join, fearing a trap and preferring going on the defense.

After the war during the Nuremberg trials the allies found out:

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At the Nuremberg Trials, German military commander Alfred Jodl said that "if we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions."[12] General Siegfried Westphal stated that if the French had attacked in full force in September 1939 the German army "could only have held out for one or two weeks."[13]

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