Posted on 07/22/2017 9:06:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Around 30,000 French troops held back Nazi divisions near the city of Lille to protect their allies during the evacuation code-named Operation Dynamo.
Renowned French film critic Jacques Mandelbaum called Nolan "witheringly impolite" and slammed the director's "deplorable indifference" towards his country's contribution to the epic evacuation.
"Where in the film are the 120,000 French soldiers who were also evacuated from Dunkirk? Where are the 40,000 who sacrificed themselves to defend the city against a superior enemy in weaponry and numbers?" he asked in his review in French newspaper Le Monde.
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Hollywood, outside of Steven Spielberg, sucks at war movies these days.
>In crowd scenes at least, for accuracy, there should have been some fellows in French uniform.
Maybe they couldn’t find enough yellow piss stained uniforms for the extras.
It was a great, inspiring speech for sure.
Stalingrad was more about Hitler believing at the time that the Russians were finished, and not equipping his troops for a longer war.
Also bombing Stalingrad to rubble made it easier for the Russians to defend the city.
The 303rd Kosciuszko Squadron
Thank you for today’s money-saving tip. I’ll skip paying to see Dunkirk.
I’ve never heard of the movie “Breste Forest”. Wish I had.
Dordogne is probably my favorite place outside the US. Boar hunting, eating what you kill (
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My favorite is Correze. All of the above and then some. Also, Correze is not overrun with Brits! I have a lifetime hunting license in France and have bought all the guns I want or need there.
In Schoondijke, the Dutch village my father was born in, the locals hid allied pilots and resistance workers in, and around the mill. It was called DeHulster's Mill. My father was born in 1904, and came to this country with his parents, and his two brothers in 1912, so the windmill was there when he was. My oldest son and I visited Schoondijke in 2006, and were able to get photos of the mill, although we weren't able to tour it. It was closed the day we were there. Schoondijke was heavily occupied by the Germans, and allied bombing practically destroyed the village. But the mill survived intact.
Here's a link to a bit of history about it:
I’ll wait for it on Netflix.
There were French in the movie, there were black Foreign Legion soldiers, and there were female nurses. At the end while the last Brits were being evacuated the British Commander refused to go with the other officers because he was staying until the French were evacuated. Did these people complaining see a different movie than I did? There is no way Hollywood could have recreated half million troops on a beach so they showed just a microcosm of what happened there. I understand this or am I just stupid?
On August 26, 1944, General Patton wires General Eisenhower upon entering Paris: “Dear Ike, today I spat in the Seine.”
I like the French. What ya gonna do about it?
They were also portrayed in the “Battle of Britain” movie.
“Repeat, please.....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXf1bhEEXd0
Thanks for heads up.
I will spend that $10 on a steak and grill it.
And enjoy it more than the movie.
>Germany kicks in the door to France and they couldn’t throw up their hands fast enough.
Rommel faced a tough fight a French port town he was trying to take a few weeks after Dunkirk. After took the down he discovered that all the French troops had been locked in the cellars while British got away by sea.
You see the French troops wanted to try and surrender the town rather than fight back or withdrawal so the Brits to decided to start their captivity early.
>Why wasn’t the “Great French Republic” defended to the bitter end and then some by it’s citizens? >:(
France had been pretty well hallowed out by leftist decadence and degeneracy after WW1. They fought like crap because they were no longer patriots.
The Brits were conquered by the Normans, and William the Bastard spoke French, not English as it was then.
That man you are making fun of most likely served in the trenches of World War I. A friend of mine served in the French underground in Paris and she told me her father’s hair turned white overnight when the Germans marched into Paris. He had served with distinction in WWI!
It would just be a movie about them surrendering.
no- the sound of prop gun gunfire sent them scurrying for safe spaces
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