Found some different numbers elsewhere:
Germans 156,000 casualties, 27,000 killed
France 200,000 wounded, 90,000 killed, 1.2 million captured
Britain 68,000 casualties
Belgium 23,000 casualties
http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=32
Another site shows
Germans
Killed 27,074
Missing 18,384
Wounded 111,034 Officers, non-commissioned officers, and men.
Total Casualties 156,492 Officers, non-commissioned officers and men.
Are you sure that you aren't pulling the number from the 1914 invasion for the Germans? 85k looks about right for 1914, but way too high for 1940.
85k does not look right for WWI. Those numbers vary according to site. And you think it’s 90k. Close enough. Pick the one that makes you happy. Either way, the French lost more dead in 6 weeks than we did in all of Vietnam.
And my 45k for the Germans includes 18,000 missing plus your 25. They didn’t go deserter on the Nazis. They exploded into bits, drowned, burned to an unrecoverable crisp, vaporized in plane crashes, etc.
In those days missing means a 155 direct hit and a pink mist.
Either way, the point remains, the French soldier fought almost fanatically and was beaten in WWII by a war plan nobody anticipated. That’s why the Brits fled the battlefield, leaving the French left flank wide open. Their government and leaders, slander away. But the French soldier was not a coward.
The Brits have a bigger record of surrender than the French. Every military then had them. We did in the Philippines, Germans did in Africa, in the east, and in the western front.
Only armchair tacticians fantasize that everyone fight to the death.