I think it's about how the Far-right and the French elite decided to surrender to Germany, as they thought that Hitler would go easy on them and even help them by killing leftists movements in France. IIRC, France could easily defeat Germany in 1939, as they were the strongest military in Central Europe during the 1930s, but they decided to retreat and wait.
basically coming out of WWI France was extremely anti-German, especially the right wing who pushed for crushing Germany at the treaty of Versaille, but in the 30s with nazis rising and the soviets looking scarier , many right wingers in France stopped being so hawkish on Germany, as their ideological and economical goals converged. Many of these people were officers in the army. There isn't much evidence, but seeing how enthusiastically some in the army (Petain) and administration collaborated with the nazis in the Vichy regime, it makes me think they lost on purpose (or at least didn't fight as hard as in WWI).
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I think it's about how the Far-right and the French elite decided to surrender to Germany, as they thought that Hitler would go easy on them and even help them by killing leftists movements in France. IIRC, France could easily defeat Germany in 1939, as they were the strongest military in Central Europe during the 1930s, but they decided to retreat and wait.
basically coming out of WWI France was extremely anti-German, especially the right wing who pushed for crushing Germany at the treaty of Versaille, but in the 30s with nazis rising and the soviets looking scarier , many right wingers in France stopped being so hawkish on Germany, as their ideological and economical goals converged. Many of these people were officers in the army. There isn't much evidence, but seeing how enthusiastically some in the army (Petain) and administration collaborated with the nazis in the Vichy regime, it makes me think they lost on purpose (or at least didn't fight as hard as in WWI).