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So they were scared Germany would destroy their cities if they put up a fight. So, afraid of that, they just surrendered.

That sounds like the definition of cowardice.

I think World War One broke the French. So many of their men with a sense of honor and bravery were killed. All they were left with were the shirkers that hid in the ditch and lived. Those are the ones that rebuilt France after World War One. And we have been seeing the consequences of that for the last 100 years.

Holy crap this is the stupidest comment I have ever seen about the French in WWII. First off, France fell because of lack of imagination from the French military. Second, British soldiers in France also surrendered and/or escaped back to the UK along with 100.000 French soldiers. Third, French soldiers fought in every single theater throughout WWII. Fourth, the French Resistance was instrumental in the invasion of Europe and were beyond courageous.

Your comment is like saying that the US had no honor or bravery because the Phillipeans fell.

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Posted by TN Tygah

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Posted on 3/10/24 at 2:22 pm to StopRobot

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Your comment is like saying that the US had no honor or bravery because the Phillipeans fell.

Terrible. Just terrible.

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Posted by captdalton

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Posted on 3/10/24 at 3:48 pm to StopRobot

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Holy crap this is the stupidest comment I have ever seen about the French in WWII. First off, France fell because of lack of imagination from the French military. Second, British soldiers in France also surrendered and/or escaped back to the UK along with 100.000 French soldiers. Third, French soldiers fought in every single theater throughout WWII. Fourth, the French Resistance was instrumental in the invasion of Europe and were beyond courageous.

France lost between 1.4 and 1.8 million soldiers during WWI. That is dead or missing and doesn’t count the wounded. That was an additional 4 million men. France lost almost 5% of their population in World War One.

To put that into comparison, that would be like the United States today losing 10 million military personnel and 5 million civilians dead and 40 million wounded. I promise if that happened here today, it would change this country forever:

But you don’t think that France losing so many men in World War One impacted how they reacted in World War Two? If you think it is the stupidest thing you’ve ever seen than you must not.

I stand by my original comment. I think that World War One emasculated a whole generation of French males and dictated their views on fighting and how they rebuilt their country after World War One. And we saw proof of that in World War Two.

I can tell you have French ancestry.

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Your comment is like saying that the US had no honor or bravery because the Phillipeans fell.

This last comment is dumb as hell. You know what America did after the Philipines fell? They went back and beat the shite out of Japan and rescued the prisoners that were still alive. Japan has not ever dared frick with America since then. The French? They got bulldozed by Germany twice in the span of 25 years.

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