AZrailwhale
Diamond Member
What's a totally wrong impression from you. No one in Europe is able "to beat" France. There was a little miscalculation of the leaders of the French army (Maginot line) and a new form of attack (parachuters) which made it possible that France lost in a first attack. But this meant nearly nothing for Germany except to win some time.
What a nonsense.
No idea what Churchill "thought" - if he thought at all. The strategy of the Brits had it been to bring Germany and Russia into a war against each other. They called this politics ironically "appeasement" policy. It had been clear to them that first Poland will have to fall in such a case because it needed a common border between Germany and Russia to start a war. The moment when this had happened was their success. A fisherman had only to wait now. But suddenly Captain Ahab Churchill liked to hunt the swastika tiger shark Germany - although sharks are only good enough for a soup and the Brits on their own had been nothing else than Germanics and Celts.
Airborne troops had nothing to do with the defeat of France. They weren't even used anywhere in France. They were used to defeat the Belgium fortress at Eban Emal. The Germans defeated France by a combination of better troops, far better leadership and good coordination between the Luftwaffe and Heer. The death knell for the French was the Germans getting inside the French decision loop and staying there. The French high command was responding to moves the Germs had made two or even three steps before.