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To: SeekAndFind

In the years before WWII, Germans were teaching their sons to shoot, while the French were teaching their sons to dance.

It took the Germans six weeks to conquer France.


24 posted on 01/21/2013 6:47:57 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

I think that the French Upper Echelon’s blind reliance on the Maginot Line might have had more to do with the German victory than did the fighting spirit of the French soldier.


33 posted on 01/21/2013 7:06:41 AM PST by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: txrefugee

“In the years before WWII, Germans were teaching their sons to shoot, while the French were teaching their sons to dance.
It took the Germans six weeks to conquer France.”

Does this have any implications regarding the coming conflict between “the red and the blue” ??


40 posted on 01/21/2013 9:31:44 AM PST by Road Glide
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