Why is everybody making fun of france? Denmark surrendered after hours ;_;
Because Denmark is pretty irrelevant anyway and nobody was expecting much from them. France was all high and mighty and their ingenious Maginot line was supposed to be impregnable. They also basically turned coat and let the Nazis completely fuck them during the occupation, leaving the fighting to partisan resistance forces, while the actual government fled to the UK.
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Excuse me sir, but this is a total unfounded argument, created by a bunch of muricans hillbillies after we refused to go in the Iraq war, in a way to make fun of a country that declared this war was illegal, and more than anything, an operation which was condamned to the fail. That's funny to see now all the articles saying " oh.. French were right about iraq" in the NY Times or some others newspapers.
But the most funny thing is that, the guy who lead this "french surrender monkeys" myth was also a guy who joined national guard to do not serve on Vietnam battlefield. Isn't it nice?
During the world war 2, except the yougoslav, which country didnt collabored with nazis? No one! Do you want we talk about the polish and what they did to their fellows polish jews? Or the volunteer pogroms made by lettons, ukranians and bielorussians BEFORE the arriving of german troops? And which gave HUGES contingents of auxilliaries to germans? please come on.
Netherlands also did bad things, as Belgium, etc...
They do not turned coat either, as far we suffered 60 000 KIA in the battle of France and 200 000 in the whole ww2.
German army had better tactics, motivated troops and good materials. Every countries fell, and Uk has been probably defeated if the channel didnt stopped the germans.
It´s easy to say " they let the fight to partizans". What could they do? Fight? With alot of french soldiers already POWS? With what? Children? Women? Old ppl? Against a well trained army? To see their country destroyed? Their families murdered? With guys like Petain who thought it was not that bad tonbe the ally of third reich? It´s not an hollywood movie. Real people dont want to die, especially france of ww2 which already saw 1 400 000 of its men die 25 years ago (5% of the population, 18% of men between 18-40). Soplease you can of course say joke about french army who loves to surrender despit the fact they had the most gratefully decoration of US congress during the Korean war for their heroic actions or the fact they charged serbian troops with bayonets at vrbanja bridge battle in the 90's, but dońt be too serious.
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Nice work to the iron europe team. Im following you since february without saying a word on forums, but your work is really awesome.
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