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To: Vaquero

DeGaulle was interested in capturing Paris before the Stalinist partisans could take control. Eisenhower could not care less about this. DeGaulle learned not to trust the Americans.


15 posted on 08/25/2014 5:16:19 AM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: iowamark

There is some evidence that DeGaulle also set up the communists in southeastern France (Vercors) for slaughter by the Germans in the period between the Normandy invasion and that in Southern France.


31 posted on 08/25/2014 4:22:03 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: iowamark

Is there evidence that Eisenhower was clueless about the treachery of Soviet communism?


41 posted on 08/25/2014 5:44:11 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate over unjust law & government in the forum of ideas)
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