September 3rd 1939....my Christening day!
Unfortunately, they also bouight even more precious time for the little socialist corporal with the small mustache.
Additionally, France's socialist labor unions took this exact time to strike, fatally weakening her reamament program.
It was a losing proposition that laid the groundwork for the Molotov-Ribentrop (Socialist-Socialist) pact that alloewed the war to start.