[You Dirty Rats]

Greece was attacked by Italy months before Hitler attacked, and they held out for a long time. Greece did not have anywhere near the forces for defense that France had.

Denmark was tiny and flat. They had no chance of any resistance.

Norway held out for almost two months and fought very hard.

The Czechs would have fought, but were abandoned by France and Britain. To say the France fought harder than the Czechs is technically correct, but completely misleading. The Czechs were screwed by the French and British.

Most of the French Army in 1940 did not fight very well. They leadership was awful, but very few French units on any level distinguished themselves. That's why they got rolled so easily.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Greece and Denmark, okay, but as for Norway, the British and French fought there for two months, but the Norwegians did not do all that much in their own defense. Why did the Czechoslavaks need British and French permission/assistance to fight invaders? They had a big, well-trained, well-equiped army and plenty of mountainous area to defend. They could have held off the Germans for more than long enough for the British and French to come to their assistance. And even if they didn't, what was the Czechoslovak Aarmy for other than to defend the country against invasion?

[Lizard_King]

Thanks. I couldn't believe someone had the nerve to defend the French by slandering the Norwegians, Danes, Greeks, and Czechs.

GOP, I don't think anyone means any personal disrespect to particular French soldiers in history. But the fact is that France as a nation continues to ignore the precedents set by its own defeats and near-misses, and behave in a manner better suited to a child than an alleged world power.

Besides, I will never forgive the French, for one reason alone that erases all the good that may have come from them: The French Revolution was the crucible that made possible the ensuing centuries of Leftist discord, and will no doubt be traceable as the proverbial beginning of the end someday.