Posted on 12/01/2022 5:51:46 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The French.
The Foreign Legionnaires aren’t French!...........
It would be amazing if they managed to break the record they set in 1940.
Aren’t members if the Foreign Legion primarily Foreign?
“This campaign is here to help French people surrender”
Looks like they don’t need help.
1) I’m tired of “narratives” and I hold in contempt people who promote them.
2) The world wars (especially the first one) destroyed France. WWI is really not taught well in the USA; mostly it is ignored in history classes and therefore unknown to people whose education in history ended some time in high school.
This story encourages me to go to Gunbroker and buy another gun.
Lockdown.
See how that works?
The Germans also invaded through Belgium, whose border with France was undefended. They weren't idiots; a frontal assault on the Maginot Line would have been a disaster for them.
As a Francophile and fluent French speaker, and friend of France generally I, for one, am tired of the revisionism surrounding French action in WWII. I will make a few statements:
France was and remains in absolute political disarray. The Ardennes offensive was a surprise, sure, but France fell in two weeks. Give me a break.
The Vichy government was actively pro-Nazi and supported the evacuation and extermination of Jews.
We hear constantly about the “Resistance.” Now, it seems, every Frenchman’s grandfather was a member. Where were these bold, brave millions then?
There WERE Resistance fighters, and there were too few. Their valor has been stolen by generations of poseurs.
The French Navy had the opportunity and were repeatedly invited - the ship’s officers themselves - to surrender their fleets to the British, sail for safe U.S. or British harbors, or exercise other options. With a few rare exceptions they refused.
As a sailor and licensed Captain this last fact tells me much about the mentality of the time.
I believe that mentality endures. It is not true in all situations, but this is a society which has repeatedly shown itself to be infuriatingly comprised of collaborationist wussies.
It’s worth pointing out that the French Revolution was arguably Communist Revolution 0.0. The Jacobins were not good people. The US Revolution and the French Revolution could not have been more different.
I will not disagree with your assessment. The Vichy French government was a disgrace on many levels.
I was, however, confining my remarks to the time of the German invasion. The French (and British) were poorly-led. But they were not cowardly. That’s my main point.
It is perhaps not unreasonable to first reach the conclusion that the French were cowards. After all, the French Army of 1940 was supposed to be the most powerful army in Europe. And yet it collapsed in record time. That was quite a shock to the free world.
But that collapse was not due to widespread cowardice.
I agree with your analysis of the French in 1940.
The Germans were waging a contemporary war and the French were ready to fight World War One.
I think autocowrecked is the term you are looking for!
LOL...
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