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Originally posted by TristanDSP
Ok, strike that...
I guess liberate was the wrong word, but during the two WWs, the English did a lot more than the French to stop our enemy.
Besides, if they just keeled over and let Hitler and Germany come inside, and then the Germans got ran out.....despite violent force or not, wouldn't that be liberating?
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Again... during WWI the French suffered proportionaly more casualties than any of the allied powers (roughly three times the total casualities of the American Civil War) - which I guess would be part and parcel of the German strategy of "bleeding France white"; ulitimately with the goal of if not defeating France, then crippling her for "at least a century" (according to Luddendorf).
As for WWII the French weren't the only ones that were completely beaten by the German forces during the 1940 offensive - the list of "defeated" armies included not only the French, but the British, Canadians, Belgians, and Dutch. So to say that they just keeled over and let the Germans in would also be saying that the above nations also allowed that to happen...