They still had over a million and a half soldiers in the field.
They lost 90k.
Do the math and wonder if they gave up to early. No city can be taken in less than a few weeks of fighting - France is the size of Texas. You could walk to Paris from nearly anywhere in the country in that long.
Their government gave up so socialists wouldn’t take power and run the war. They should rightfully be tarred as Nazi collaborators.
they were outnumbered 2:1 after the encirclement, with the lions share of artillery & tanks gone. and im sure soldiers' morale was tip-top at this point. the soviets did not fight on against odds through pure gumption, they had replaced all the soldiers and equipment lost in the first months by the time of the halting defenses (and remember they had well over the whole length of France overrun themselves). there was neither the time, space, or industry for an equivalent in France
Their government gave up so socialists wouldn’t take power and run the war.
oh my god not this again. the hardline leftists were in jail. the radical socialists (centre-left, ofc) & other limping remains of the Popular Front were literally the ones in charge and sacked/resigned through the poor persecution of the war. the more left wing socialists or communists (miraculously sprung from prisons in german-occupied territory) would not have been able to pull victory from their ass
They should rightfully be tarred as Nazi collaborators
i've got great news about the post-war political fate of petain
They still had over a million and a half soldiers in the field.
They lost 90k.
Do the math and wonder if they gave up to early. No city can be taken in less than a few weeks of fighting - France is the size of Texas. You could walk to Paris from nearly anywhere in the country in that long.
Their government gave up so socialists wouldn’t take power and run the war. They should rightfully be tarred as Nazi collaborators.
they were outnumbered 2:1 after the encirclement, with the lions share of artillery & tanks gone. and im sure soldiers' morale was tip-top at this point. the soviets did not fight on against odds through pure gumption, they had replaced all the soldiers and equipment lost in the first months by the time of the halting defenses (and remember they had well over the whole length of France overrun themselves). there was neither the time, space, or industry for an equivalent in France
oh my god not this again. the hardline leftists were in jail. the radical socialists (centre-left, ofc) & other limping remains of the Popular Front were literally the ones in charge and sacked/resigned through the poor persecution of the war. the more left wing socialists or communists (miraculously sprung from prisons in german-occupied territory) would not have been able to pull victory from their ass
i've got great news about the post-war political fate of petain