Posted on 05/26/2008 12:36:11 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
All we knew about France long time ago.
Have at it.
I am shocked, shocked to find out there was sex going in in Paris!
Between men and women, too!
The only thing wrong with France is the French. I used to needle a French friend of mine with the idea that France was the only country we should have let the Germans keep. That way the French would have stayed polite to foreigners.
I care nothing for France....
Mon dieu! The most boorish tourists you can find now are Germans — seriously.
I have read that waiters complained that the Germans always tipped as opposed to customers after the war.
Most Germans I've met and worked with have been very nice and friendly. Austrians on the other hand...
Not a pair that any nation would choose to represent their virtue.
couldn’t agree more. France is the only country that deserved to stay occupied by the Germans.
““It is disturbing to know that while the Jews were being deported, the French were making love. But that is the truth.””
You can say that again.
The real truth no one dares to speak is that the French communists supported Hitler and agitated for non-resistance to the Germans when France was being invaded. They only switched sides after Hitler invaded the USSR. After the war the communists launched a vicious campaign against their political enemies, denouncing them as Nazi collaborators. This was mainly to cover up their own complicity. The legend of valiant resistance by the French communists is largely an invention, but the French still hold it in reverence.
I will say one thing in earnest: the ability of civilians to persevere under occupation is often astounding to me, and even to live some semblance of a “normal” life while under the watch and guard of inhuman occupiers or (in the case of Iraq) your own citizens destroying your country in terrorist acts.
French collaboration made Polish rat-outs look like Boy Scout troops running a traffic patrol. Yes there was a resistance, but it was outdone by anti-Semites and collaborators. France has absolutely nothing to celebrate in WWII - not its bogus 1919 “peace” that made the war possible, not its dishonorable surrender at the hands of a madman’s army, not its shipping Jews up to the Reich.
They can at least feel good that they have beautifully preserved the lands and monuments of the Anglo-American offensives to liberate their country. Normandy is a real treat, and despite many stories I heard (from Americans and Dutchmen) before I went, I dealt with zero flak or unfriendliness to English-speakers.
The gals were only following the example of their leaders by bending over for the Germans.
“It is disturbing to know that while the Jews were being deported, the French were making love. But that is the truth.”
Most of the Jews deported to concentration camps by German occupation authorities and the Petain/Laval government were French.
Sounds like my college days, when I was "occupied" with my quest for higher learning.
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