Ya know, this isn’t very PC, and I know we spent an enormous amount of blood and treasure bailing the frogs out BUT... It’s hard to not savor, just a leeeeeeetle tiny bit, the humiliation that the so-called froggie elite had to endure that day, bowing and groveling before Chancellor Hitler.
I had no idea that they had to break down the walls of a museum to drag the darn thing out to the exact space... Sort of surprised there were rails, but if there weren’t I have no doubt that the industrious nazi engineers would have laid some to get it out.
The French lost 1.7 million killed defending against German invasion in the First World War, plus another 4.3 million military wounded.
France's quick surrender in the Second World War reduced its total deaths by more than a million -- to 568,000.
Naturally, those Germans who invaded France during the Great War (including especially a certain Austrian Corporal) felt vindicated in 1940.
But that anyone else could feel any sympathy whatever for those Germans is, well, incomprehensible.