re: Can anyone explain Alabama fans’ infatuation with using French heritage as an insult?

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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.

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and Great Britain lost 6% of their adult men. Do you not think it affected their actions in WWII? Why do you think Chamberlain was so wanting to avoid another war in Europe? Why do you think the US was so set on not getting involved in WWII? France, like Great Britain, declared war on Germany after Germany invaded Poland. Hardly the actions of a nation not willing to fight. And AGAIN, it wasnt just French forces that retreated in France it was also the entire BEF and were only able to be rescued because Hitler did not attack Dunkirk.

>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.

You have some stupid misconception that you got from jokes about the French. They fought beyond bravely in WWII. They were completely caught off guard by Germany and did not even think they would attack through the Ardennes. France believed the Maginot Line would stop any direct attack from the West and force any battle with Germany into the Low Countries

>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.

and do you know what the surviving French military did after France fell? They went back and beat the shite out of the Germans and rescued the POWs still alive. Again the French fought in ever theater in WWII.

>They got bulldozed by Germany twice in the span of 25 years.

OK so you confirmed that you do not know history. Germany only got about 100 miles into French territory at their furthest in WWI, they didnt "bulldoze" France.