[ffusco]

Hmm.... blame it all on Holland and Belgium?
What else ya got there, Pan?

I agree Germany had the best army and the best tactics, that's why Poland is aknowledged as having gallantly tried to defeat the Wehrmacht on horseback; The French surrendered without firing a shot. During the war they sang and danced for the Nazi's, gleefully rounded up their own jews and scuttled their own navy. After the war all French men had amazing tales from "le resistance" . The French are stinkers!

[altayann]

Uh-oh, I can see it's time for another "WWII reality check"!

The French naval fleet was sunk at Oran by the British in 1940. Ironically enough, the reason it was sunk is because the French refused to surrender their fleet to anyone.

Strange but true.

[spitz]

The French would have quite happily handed their Navy over to the Nazi’s in North Africa. But, Adm Somerville arrived with Force H off the French Algerian base of Mers-el-Kebir and, after the French refused the options given them, opened fire on the anchored ships.

The French have never forgiven the British for that.

[Romulus]

The French surrendered without firing a shot.

Kindly explain then, how the French military of the second world war took casualties numerically equivalent to those of the USA, but in only one theatre of operations, in an army less than half the size, raised from a population one third the size. Not to mention the civilian casualties. Never checked them, have you? It's always easier to be a canting fool, isn't it?

And speaking of "sempre ragione", trouble yourself to compare France's wartime losses to Italy's.