Comments by "Elaine" (@Petal4822) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1. At the end of WW2, these tough Frenchmen who cut off women’s hair and performed executions during the ‘Ugly Carnivals’ were quick to surrender with their hands up 🙌 when the Germans came to town. These Frenchmen waited until the Germans had bolted before they started abusing French women in the ‘Ugly Carnivals’ Aww the bravery.🤣
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  2. The French were better Nazis than the Germans.
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  3. The French lost against the Germans, the moment they couldn't muster the heart to defend their capital city. They wanted to preserve the beauty of Paris but what is the point of beautiful national symbols if they are not used to rally the nation. The soviets did the exact opposite, they defended Stalingrad inch by inch. As a result, they emerged victorious. In the Battle of Britain, the courageous RAF pilots neutralised the Luftwaffe despite being outnumbered.
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  4. If the French had fought harder the Allied soldiers wouldn’t have suffered more than 226,386 casualties: 72,911 killed / missing and 153,475 from D-Day till 21st August 1944 trying to liberate cowardly France.
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  5. If the French had fought harder the Allied soldiers wouldn’t have suffered more than 226,386 casualties: 72,911 killed / missing and 153,475 from D-Day till 21st August 1944 trying to liberate cowardly France.
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  6. At the end of WW2, these tough Frenchmen who cut off women’s hair and performed executions during the ‘Ugly Carnivals’ were quick to surrender with their hands up 🙌 when the Germans came to town. These Frenchmen waited until the Germans had bolted before they started abusing French women in the ‘Ugly Carnivals’ Aww the bravery.🤣
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  7. France was truly defeated before the battle had begun.🤣
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  8. France was truly defeated before the battle had begun.🤣
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  9. The collaboration of the French Vichy government with Nazi Germany. Dismantles any myths of French heroic Resistance in WW2.
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  10. In WW2 the Germans took Paris without firing a shot while the French military bolted. The French left it to the Allies to liberate France while the Frenchmen willing collaborated with the Nazis. During WW2, Tens of thousands of Frenchmen volunteered for the Milice and Charlemagne SS.Division. They fought for Germany on the Eastern Front and in Berlin. While the Allies fought to liberate their country. The brave US & Allies Soldiers fought and died (NOT for their own country) but to liberate France. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Are the French grateful?
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  11. France was truly defeated before the battle had even started.
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  12. The Vichy Regime were bad.
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  13. The Germans took Paris without firing a shot while the French looked on. The French left it to the Allies to liberate France while the Frenchmen willing collaborated with the Nazis. During WW2, Tens of thousands of Frenchmen volunteered for the Milice and Charlemagne SS.Division. They fought for Germany on the Eastern Front and in Berlin. While the Allies fought to liberate France. The U.S, 7th Army suffered 83,000 Battle Casualties from It's Landing in Southern France on August 15, 1944 to VE-Day. On May 8, 1945 including 55,000 Battle Casualties in the Battle of Alsace from November 1944 to March 1945, in North-Eastern France from the Saar Industrial Basin to the Upper Rhine River North of Strasbourg. Overall, the U.S 6th Army Group suffered 95,000 Battle Casualties mostly in Alsace from November 1944 to March 1945 making Alsace the 2nd Most Martyred Region of France for the U.S. after Normandy where the American, British and Canadian Armies suffered 135,000 Battle Casualties in Normandy and 85,000 Battle Casualties in several different Regions of Northern France like Brittany etc. from June to August 1944 with Lorraine 3rd Highest where the U.S 3rd Army suffered 50,000 Battle Casualties from September to December 1944. America saved Europe. 💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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  14. France was truly defeated before the battle had begun.🤣
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  15. The Brits would have bravely fought for every blade of grass, every town, every city…. We would never have surrendered .💪🇬🇧
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  16.  @jobvanhetkaar8848  After the fall of France. Britain stood all alone. During ‘The Battle of Britain’ the brave British pilots fought courageously and neutralised the Luftwaffe. Those British brave pilots threw everything at the Luftwaffe. Better to die standing up than to live on your knees.
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  17. The French had a vast colonial empire and were a world power… the French just rolled over for the Germans, they took Paris without firing a shot.
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  18. All of France was part of the French resistance in 1945 none were in 1940.🤣
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  19. The French Vichy collaboration was horrific. Philippe Petain, the French President of the collaborationist Vichy government of France, willingly hunted down and deported more than 70,000 Jewish men, women and children to Nazi death camps. The Milice were worse than the gestapo. After the war he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death but because of his age, it was reduced to a life sentence.
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  20.  @MyZk089  All of France was part of the French resistance in 1945… none were in 1940.🤣
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  21.  @khankrum1  On November 8, 1942, in World War II, thousands of American soldiers landed on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, while others went to Algeria. Instead of the French fighting with the US, the Vichy French colonial force fought back with everything they had. The French started firing AT the US. This ended all U.S. relations with the French during WWII.
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  22. At the end of WW2, these tough Frenchmen who cut off women’s hair and performed executions during the ‘Ugly Carnivals’ were quick to surrender with their hands up 🙌 when the Germans came to town. These Frenchmen waited until the Germans had bolted before they started abusing French women in the ‘Ugly Carnivals’ Aww the bravery.🤣
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  23.  @scottwillie6389  The French left it to the Allies to liberate France while the Frenchmen willing collaborated and volunteered for the Milice and Charlemagne SS.Division. It didn’t help the 70,000 Jewish men, women and children in France, who were willingly hunted down by the Vichy Milice and deported to Nazi death camps.
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  24. Philippe Petain, the French President of the collaborationist Vichy government of France, willingly hunted down and deported more than 70,000 Jewish men, women and children to Nazi death camps. The Milice were worse than the gestapo. After the war he was convicted of treason and sentenced to death but because of his age, it was reduced to a life sentence.
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  25. All of France was part of the French resistance in 1945 none were in 1940.🤣
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  26. @Britannius Eisenhower’s battle plan was to skirt the French capital and push Allied forces toward the German border. British and American leaders wanted to avoid the risk of running a city of 4 million, all delaying the assault on Germany itself. On August 21, Eisenhower met with de Gaulle and told him of his plans to bypass Paris. De Gaulle urged him to reconsider, assuring him that Paris could be reclaimed quickly without difficulty.
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  27.  @mrworldwide7387  The Allies would have won regardless of the destruction of railroads.
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  28. They French lost to the Germans the moment they couldn't muster the heart to defend their capital city. They wanted to preserve the beauty of Paris but what is the point of beautiful national symbols if they are not used to rally the nation to defend their capital city. The soviets did the exact opposite, they defended Stalingrad inch by inch. As a result, they emerged victorious. During the Battle of Britain, the courageous RAF pilots neutralised the Luftwaffe despite being outnumbered. 👍🏻
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  29. @Britannius To Britannius…. The Soviets watched the Germans turn Warsaw into a heap of rubble but they wouldn’t have allowed Moscow to be taken without firing a shot. France is the only country that waved the white flag before the battle had begun. 🤣 too bad France fought on the wrong side with the Vichy regime.
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  30. To Leo The Thracian…General De-Gaulle's Free French forces were mostly courageous African soldiers who came from sub-Saharan colonies. In 1941 De-Gaulle ordered that non-white French troops should be excluded from the matching through Paris. It was to be white only. The brave African colonial soldiers were stripped of their uniforms and sent home with their pensions frozen after WW2. Such gratitude. The French are now naming streets after their African colonial heroes.
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  31. De-Gaulle wanted to avoid the French Resistance which was made up of communists and French working class radicals - taking power.
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  32. @Leo The Thracian If the French Resistance did their job well. Where were they in 1940 when France suffered a humiliating defeat? The French took the wrong side…sans Vichy. One of De-Gaulle’s advisers noted “the General must constantly be reminded that our main enemy is Germany. If De-Gaulle was to follow his own inclination, it would be England.”
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  33. The Brits would have fiercely fought for every blade of grass, every town and every city…. We would never have surrendered .💪🇬🇧
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  34. The French had a vast colonial empire and were a world power… the French just rolled over for the Germans and left Britain all alone.
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  35. After the fall of France. Britain stood all alone. During ‘The Battle of Britain’ the brave British pilots fought courageously and neutralised the Luftwaffe. Those British brave pilots threw everything at the Luftwaffe. Better to die standing up than to live on your knees.
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  36.  @jansobieski3127  The Polish and South African pilots flew British planes… the Spitfire 🔥
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  37. It was the Vichy French Government that drove the Nazi agenda in France as a result : Over 70,000 Jewish men, women and children were forced out their homes, rounded up and sent to death camps. The Vichy French Government turned France into a quasi-police state. Even before the Nazis demanded the Vichy government participate in anti-Semitic policies, the Vichy French had enacted policies that removed Jews from civil service and began seizing Jewish property and abusing Jews. The Vichy French collaborators willingly participated in the deportations and the Milice did most of the arresting. In one particular roundup in July 1942. Among the 13,000 Jews arrested and deported to Auschwitz were 4,000 children—removed with their parents for “humanitarian” reasons.
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  38. If the French had fought harder the Allied soldiers wouldn’t have suffered more than 226,386 casualties: 72,911 killed / missing and 153,475 from D-Day till 21st August 1944 trying to liberate cowardly France.
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  39.  @femmet  Britain left from Dunkirk to fight another day because France capitulated. Britain was then alone but Britain fought on neutralising the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain in 1940. Without air superiority it was impossible for Hitler to invade Britain. Germany did not beat Britain. Britain was victorious. Do not compare Britain with the cowardly French.
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  40.  @femmet  The French just rolled over for the Germans, they took Paris without firing a shot. From 10 July until 31 October 1940 the British defeated the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain..
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  41. France contributed very little during WW2. Although haughty De-Gaulle ( the Cross of Lorraine) started demanding an equal say in the running of post -war France. After De-Gaulle had been hiding in Britain for four years.
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  42. France was truly defeated before the battle had begun.🤣
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  43. If the French had fought harder the Allied soldiers wouldn’t have suffered more than 226,386 casualties: 72,911 killed / missing and 153,475 from D-Day till 21st August 1944 trying to liberate cowardly France.
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  44. All of France was part of the French resistance in 1945 ….none were in 1940.🤣
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  45. They bombed Nazi loving Darlan fickin French fleet because he wouldn’t hand it over to the Allies.
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  46. The French Vichy collaboration was horrific. Philippe Petain, the French President of the collaborationist Vichy government of France, willingly hunted down and deported more than 70,000 Jewish men, women and children to Nazi death camps. The Vichy Milice were worse than the gestapo.
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  47. Everyone in France was a part of the resistance in 1945 but not in 1940.
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  48. France contributed very little during WW2. Haughty, Charles De-Gaulle ( who was hiding in Britain for all of the war) started demanding an equal say in the running of post -war France and became a pain to Churchill and Eisenhower.
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  49. @Doublethink Truth hurts….
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  50. The French had a vast colonial empire and were a world power… the French just rolled over for the Germans, they took Paris without firing a shot.
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