sentences:  It also provides a description of the state of mind in Paris as the Germans advanced, the increasing impotence of the French high command, and the increasingly defeatist mood of what was left of the government.One of the battle's major German generals, Hasso von Manteuffel sums this up as due to the "...Maginot spirit and the long Phony War, so they have the feeling that there will be no more war.