>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 only French port Rommels 7th Panzer took, that I know of, was St. Valery, where the British were unable to evacuate. The 51st Highland Division was surrounded and forced to surrender.
Perhaps you are thinking of Boulogne, where the British 20th Guards Brigade was indeed (mostly) successfully withrawn, leaving the French garrison behind (those fighting were remnants of the 21st Division d’Infanterie, which certainly wasnt locked into cellars). There were besides some 7000 mostly unarmed raw recruits, mostly Belgians, left behind. The attackers were the 2nd Panzer Division, not Rommels 7th.