Re: France fights on in North Africa
Just registered because of this subject:
Literature about Vichy even proofs that the commanders in the colonies were not at all ready to accept capitulation with not one shot being fired from their ready trained units. There was also a plan on the table to unify France and UK in order to avoid capitulation. Everything was prepared for signing the treaty on a battleship, when Reynaud was forced to resign.
I think it is even worth to explore a little bit farther: At the 1940 capitulation France was not even half taken. The southern part of France is mountainous and easier to defend then the plains in the north. It is not even sure, that the Wehrmacht would have been able to occupy the whole of southern France, the allies could have kept some footholds there, perhaps also in Corsica, seen the difficulties that Italy had with Malta…
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