Why did France capitulate to the Germans so quickly in WW2? I know that the surprise maneuver through the Ardennes played an enormous role, as the French thought the Germans would have used the attack through Belgium technique again, which proved to just be a decoy. I also heard that some of the French generals weren't the best and not familiar with the more advanced forms of technological warfare. Is this true? What other reasons are there for France's fall so quickly, given that Hitler was so scared of their might just 4 years earlier at the Rhineland?