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By May 17, 1940, something really interesting was happening

among the leadership groups on both sides of the invasion of France. In Paris and London,

there was real fear that the French army had already been defeated, and that there was little

that could be done to stop the German forces that were moving west. Troops were on their

way from other areas of the front as quickly as possible, but those movements would take time,

and nothing that the French army had done in the first four days since the crossing of the

muse had really seemed to make much difference. However, on the German side, the mood was

not a feeling of elation and victory, but instead of

stress and concern about what the French might do in the days that followed.

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