Thread: Where would YOU serve in WW2?
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Old January 14th, 2003, 12:13 PM
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Versailles is often said to have led to the rise of Hitler. The occupation of the Rhineland and the killing of German workers by French troops didn't help things along either. French harshness was arguably as much to blame as appeasement - a policy which successive French governments supported after 1924 until 1935-36, contributing to the collapse of the little entente and their need to accomodate with Hitler after 1933.

If the French were so anti-Hitler why was the cry of the French Right "Better Hitler than Blum?"

Why did they refuse to help the Republicans in Spain?

Why did so many Frenchmen support Petain? Including at the Velodrome St Hiver?

Why did the majority of the 110,000 French troops we took off at Dunkirk choose to return to France under Petain rather than fight on under De Gaulle?

Please don't try and whitewash France, it certainly won't wash with me!

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