[Bartholomew Roberts]

Surrender monkeys doing what surrender monkeys do.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The French fought bravely in many instances -- they hadn't changed fundamentally as a nation from WW2. The end was a forgone conclusion, would have been no point letting the Germans get a hold of all those boats and ships.

[Bull Snipe]

The French Officers and sailors did not surrender their ships to the Germans. They sunk them with their own hands to prevent the German Navy from gaining 3 battleships, 7 cruisers, 15 destroyers and 12 submarines to use against the British and American Navies.

[DesertRhino]

Like the tea drinking surrender monkeys that ran away at Dunkirk, or surrendered Singapore to a force of 1/3 their size? Like that?

[DesertRhino]

Or like the German bratwurst eating surrender monkeys who scuttled the fleet off Scapa Flo? Or surrendered in North Africa and Stalingrad?
The French fought damned hard in WWI and lost far more than the Brits. They fought hard in WWII and lost. Under captivity they behaved about the way we would expect the British to. Some were heroes, some were not.
Don’t pretend for a minute that there werent large parts of British aristocracy that would’ve been happy to go along with Nazi rule as long as they got to keep their position in society.