Comments by "John Fisher" (@johnfisher9692) on "Mers-el-Kebir - Tragedy on a Grand Scale" video.

  1. Agree completely Another question no one wants to ask is : If the Nazi's had broken their word (and we know Hitler's track record of keeping treaty's) and lunged after the French fleet in 1940, COULD the French navy have scuttles the ships or would the confusion of the time let the Nazi's capture the fleet? Especially with the government at Vichy doing everything to aid their nre German friends. The Frech make much of the scuttling at Toulon in 1942, but they had two YEARS to prepare it. In the confusion of 1940 could they guarantee!!! they would have been successful? No they couldn't and could ANY nation take such a risk of such a powerful fleet falling into enemy hands? If the positions were reversed I think the French would have done exctly the same thing.
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