Poland was attacked from both sides massively superior forces and didn't surrender until their whole country was overrun.
Germany kicks in the door to France and they couldn't throw up their hands fast enough.
You look at the old newsreels of the Men crying in the streets of Paris as the German Army marches in.
Why wasn't the "Great French Republic" defended to the bitter end and then some by it's citizens? >:(
The French generals wasted the best,most courageous French men in STUPID charges in the face of multiple German machine guns in WW1.And the British generals did the same. Both nations threw away the best of their men because uncaring IDIOTS were in charge.
Poland NEVER Surrendered! They fought the Nazis the rest of the war. The 303rd Kosciuszko Squadron had the highest kill rate of any RAF Squadron. There is a huge Polish cemetery at Monte Cassino.
You know why France has tree lined roads?
So the Germans can march in the shade.
Why wasn’t the “Great French Republic” defended to the bitter end and then some by it’s citizens? >:(
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It was defended by many who were able to escape and further the French fight with de Gaulle, and many others who stayed and enabled the success of the Allied Invasion! My husband was in the French underground and without his group slowing the advance of Das Reich,the 2nd Division Panzers, the Normandy landings could have failed. That is, ACCORDING TO DWIGHT EISENHOWER! Ever heard of him?
>Germany kicks in the door to France and they couldn’t throw up their hands fast enough.
Rommel faced a tough fight a French port town he was trying to take a few weeks after Dunkirk. After took the down he discovered that all the French troops had been locked in the cellars while British got away by sea.
You see the French troops wanted to try and surrender the town rather than fight back or withdrawal so the Brits to decided to start their captivity early.
>Why wasn’t the “Great French Republic” defended to the bitter end and then some by it’s citizens? >:(
France had been pretty well hallowed out by leftist decadence and degeneracy after WW1. They fought like crap because they were no longer patriots.
They surrendered because they love their buildings more than their culture. It almost cost them their buildings.
I've actually seen them and I remember that!
<< Why wasn’t the “Great French Republic” defended to the bitter end and then some by it’s citizens? >:(>>
Lessee....
*The specter of four years of bloodshed over twenty years earlier—a good bit of it for nothing—loomed heavily over France’s politics and culture for decades. They began rearming in 1938-39, but unlike the US they had not spent years preparing their industries for the job, and it was a classic case of too little, too late.
*Communists...lots of Communists. Seriously. At the time of the invasion, Stalin and Hitler were still buddies. So guess who the French Communists tacitly backed via industrial sabotage?
*The people as a whole thought France’s “democratic” government was a tad weak.
*The merchant class feared Bolshevism more than the Germans.
*The French officer corps was so conservative (Old World speaking) as to be almost monarchic in their leanings. They weren’t too thrilled about the existing government either. And the top generals were still stuck on the previous war, both in terms of tactics and refusing to recognize that time and technology had moved on from 1918.
All that said, the French sustained casualties of well over 100,000 in the weeks from invasion to surrender. That’s not cutting and running, that’s standing and dying while being out-thought and out-fought.
Worth watching...politics aside, this is really good television:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_village_fran%C3%A7ais
They sacrificed many men due to their earlier stupidity but held the reluctant Germans off the Dunkirk area so, yes, Frogs, thanks for your roll.
Many thousands were evacuated by the British but the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) would not even have been on the mainland of Europe in the first place had the French taken proper steps in men, material and leadership up until 1940.
So, Frogs, cry (croak) if you will about an excellent film that hits home the honest truth about your ineptitude.