In November the Germans and Italy decided they needed Vichy France, the breadbasket of the nation and of course naval access to the French Med ports.
The Vichy Free French, neutral till that point decided to scuttle their fleet in Toulon rather than escape to the Allies.
Did Trump really say that, or is the media saying this?
In WWII, France was defeated. They were liberated starting in June 1944 at some cost to American, British, and Canadian lives.
The author is either ignorant of this, is writing hoping her readers are ignorant, or both.
In the case of WWII France was defeated!!
The French know it to be true. The result is that, as is often the case when one does a great favor for someone, we have ended up with a large bill and an ingrate.
Fercryingoutloud ... France has never defended itself. How did Normandy gets its name? Charles III ceded the area to the Vikings over a thousand years ago to appease the Vikings (Northmen) who were plundering Paris regularly. My dad, who fought in France in WWII, had absolutely no respect for the French after the war. Oh, the stories he told.
That is not a suggestion, it is a fact..However, the US didn’t save Europe. God did!
I’ve lived a while but this is the first time I’ve encountered the surname, Superville.
So in the space of one week Macron announces plans to honor Marshal Petain, the French leader who collaborated with Hitler and deported French Jews to Nazi concentration camps, declares that nationalism is unpatriotic and urges the creation of a European Army in support of a European Empire. Yet the AP goes after Trump? Typical.
Uh, they were.
My understanding of history is they already WERE defeated and the US, UK, and some non-capitulators helped to LIBERATE France.
Suggests? The French were beaten in six weeks of the summer of 1940. Anyone who says France would not be speaking German without the blood of American troops is a liar an idiot or both.
The Nazi flag would be flying all over Europe if it weren’t for Churchill and America entering the war. The Nazi’s even offered to leave England alone, as long as they could have mainland Europe to themselves. Churchill told them to piss off, but if Chamberlain and Lord Halifax had their way the Nazi’s would still be in power and likely loaded to the hilt with Nuclear weapons given to them by the likes of the Rosenberg’s and the Alger Hiss’s of this world.
Those who fail to remember history are bound to repeat it.
None that I'm aware of.
“Would’ve been defeated?”
The Wehrmacht marched in and occupied France without a fight. That’s not a defeat, that’s an uncontested occupation.
France sucks, and always will.
Well, maybe.
By the time the US entered, all the combatants were worn down to the nub. Russia had actually quit. Germany was on the verge of being unable to continue as was Fance
Every time there has been a sauerkraut driven fart that's made its way across the French border in the last 100 years the French have bent over and grabbed their Frog Legs in submission, if not collaboration.
Suggests? Hell, we won France from the Krauts fair and square, twice in one century, then gave it back to the cheese-eating surrender monkeys!
“France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes.” —Mark Twain
“I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.” —General George S. Patton
“Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.” —Norman Schwartzkopf
“We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it.” —Marge Simpson
“As far as I’m concerned, war always means failure.” —Jacques Chirac, President of France
“As far as France is concerned, you’re right.” —Rush Limbaugh
“The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.” —Regis Philbin
“The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don’t know.” —P.J O’Rourke (1989)
“You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn’t have the face for it.” —John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona
“They’ve taken their own precautions against Al Qaeda. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house.” —Argus Hamilton
“The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.” —Dennis Miller
“I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.” —Dennis Miller
“You know why the French don’t want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He IS French, people.” —Conan O’Brien
“I don’t know why people are surprised that France won’t help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn’t help us get the Germans out of France!” —Jay Leno
“The last time the French asked for ‘more proof,’ it came marching into Paris under a German flag.” —David Letterman
How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb?
One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.
An old saying: Raise your right hand if you like the French.... Raise both hands if you are French.