For she possesses two great trump cards. One is the soon-expected active participation of the United States of America in the war.’ For Krosigk, no less than for Goering, Weizsaecker and Beck, American backing for the enemies of the Third Reich was axiomatic.108 The second British ‘trump card’ was their knowledge of Germany’s ‘financial and economic weaknesses’. With this in mind, Britain and France would fight a war of attrition. ‘The Western powers would not run against the Westwall but would let Germany’s economic weakness take effect until we, after early military successes, become weaker
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