“History will be the judge of that,” Coulondre replied. On that Sunday in Berlin all the participants in the final act of the drama seemed intent on calling upon the judgment of history. Although France was mobilizing an army which would have overwhelming superiority for the time being over the German forces in the west, it was Great Britain, whose army at the moment was negligible, which loomed in Hitler’s feverish mind as the main enemy and as the antagonist who was almost entirely responsible for the pass in which he found himself as September 3, 1939, began to wane and pass into history.
