[SpamCop-Social] Re: Dateline: Paris

[Sylvesterthekat]

"D.F. Manno" <dfm2a3l0t2 at spymac.com> wrote in message
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> Everybody rips the French for surrendering in 1940, but they
> conveniently forget that early on in the war just about every country on
> earth would have lost to the Nazi war machine. Had Hitler decided to
> invade, Britain would likely have fallen. A large part of the reason the
> Soviets were able to defeat the Nazis on the eastern front was that
> Hitler tried to fight a two-front war. As it was a lot of Russians died.
>
> And the only things that would have saved the U.S. before 1942 or 1943
> were distance (too far to mount an invasion) and size (too much land to
> take and hold). The U.S. military would have been easily routed by the
> Wehrmacht.
>
> So why does France get the grief?

I have no idea. The French Resistance were pretty impressive IMO. I guess
because they did surrender and kowtowed to the Germans but they weren't the
only ones either! America wasn't exactly impressive until after Pearl Harbor
happened. One wonders if they'd really have gone all out if the Japanese
hadn't attacked.