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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
France wasn't completely useless during WWII. Their North African colonial men did will in Italy and France '44 and '45. It's only because of the admittedly horrible defence in '40 that we think of them as useless, cheese-addicted, funny-speaking, smug and ugly bastards.
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Yeah...that defeat has it's roots in the long ugly war of attrition on the Western Front in WWI. Seeing the Germans advance so rapidly after all their pre-war plans to keep the next war off French soil just seemed to cause something to snap in the French High Command.