You just do not admit you are bunch of cowards who surrendered to the Germans in WW II. The United States lost some battle in WW II but they won the war. You French SURRENDERED and lost the war until the US and Britain liberated you from Nazi Germany.
"You just do not admit you are bunch of cowards who surrendered to the Germans in WW II."
You're right, I do not admit that the French are a bunch of cowards today, 60 years later, with two or three new generations of people alive now, and nobody who took the fateful decisions of 1940 still alive.
I also do not admit that those men of 1940 were cowards.
The Vichy French were not COWARDS, they were fascists. There is a difference. Part of the division in France was that there were too many people who agreed with the Nazi ideas. They did not like Germans in their country, but presented with the fait accompli of the Germans being there, they were of a mind to approve of fascism with a French face. They despised Communists more than they did Fascists.
It was a dangerous and divided time.