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When, eventualy, the stalemate was broken and the lightning German invasion of Holland, Belgium, and France, known as the Blitz krieg, came on May 10, 1940, Ratzinger acknowledges the surprising surge of patriotic emotions, even from those opposed to nationalism, when the powers that punished Germany after the First World War were "brought to their knees in a short time" at the beginning of the Second.