A very interesting read, this one as well. With two players having written game diaries, I'll now have to reciprocate with writing one of my own as well. (Well, not a diary technically since it'll be a recount of the game afterwards, but still.) Expect one relatively soon.

I am not sure about what secret agreements he might have had with Italy, but nevertheless, German moves in this turn were masterpiece of Diplomacy play.

Thank you! But I think I mostly just got lucky. :D

I wonder whether Germany too didn't make mistake by pushing too hard; if he did agree to give up his rights to Warsaw, I may have accepted his proposals, and the result would almost certainly be better for Germany.

I probably did.

At this point, I had made offers of support to both you and Italy, figuring I could keep the promise to the side who it turned out to be more advantageous to support. You breaking our treaty and invading Italy when you did ruined my plans, though: I had been hoping to keep you out for a turn or two more, enough that I'd get to establish a strong position in Italy. With your invasion, I pretty much lost out on all of Italy's spoils. And then I lost your support for an invasion of Warsaw, as well. I was probably being too greedy, and should've just moved against Russia instead of trying to grab pieces of both Italy and Russia.