Then fifty years later you get attacked by the remanants and they form the Second Reich who is a huge pain in your ass for the next forty years.
You engage in the deadliest war your nation has ever been in. A war where 15% of your male population died, an entire generation of men just GONE. But you win, then dismantle it again.
This time the Reich respawns in less than twenty years, and starts kicking your ass again harder than ever and you just stop caring. The panzers cut off half your army in the low lands and sack Paris unopposed. Whatever, you surrender.
Now everyone remembers you as cowards.
France got hit that hard in WW1!? I had no idea. Tough son of a guns that we mocked for cowardice because they didn't want to fight a useless war on terror. Makes sense in this context.
People forget what a slaughter it was sometimes because of how much it is overshadowed by the second for Anglos, Germans and Russians.
@BowsacNoodle @gav @Deplorable_Degenerate @Fash-E common Angloid rosbif slander to their betters. its amazing how no one knows that the whole surrenders monkey bit came from defiance at a pointless oil war for the Ego of America and a general’s childlike seething
@Fash-E @gav @Deplorable_Degenerate @BowsacNoodle He was trying to regionlock them and collectively and punitively punish all carribonogs for the chimpout in Haiti just in case.
The only source i found for what you said literally is trying to Holocaust the whole thing lol
“But Monsieur Ribbe goes even further. He offers his readers a parallel with the Shoah. The opportunity is offered to him by the implacable repression in Guadeloupe, led by General Richepance, and by the massacres ordered in Saint-Domingue by General Rochambeau, including – and this is the key fact – the killing by asphyxiation of some of them in the holds of a ship. Napoleon (who was thousands of kilometres away at the time) is said to have invented the gas chambers, an assertion that seems to be part of a victim competition which aims at placing the Holocaust and colonial events on the same footing.“
Looks like Napoleon > Hitler
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I think his biggest mistake was annexing the rest of Bohemia after he said he wouldn't if he just got the Sudetenland. That is usually cited as the reason he was viewed as untrustworthy.
But the Czech government was about to fall apart and he didn't want a communist state on his doorstep.
Contemporary Czechs tend to hate Hitler, rather like the Greeks, and it’s easy to see why. But in all likelihood he was forced into making such unpopular decisions by insane and ridiculous circumstances about which top-rank academics are paid handsomely to obfuscate.
Back in the late 30s this was a blow to not just his reputation but to the 'appeasers' like Chamberlain trying to avoid another war. I honestly think without it they'd have had the political clout to make peace after the fall of France, assuming things played out similarly.
could say he was trying to avoid another continent wide war by excepting the request for annexation
The Slovaks were such a problem after that the Czechs were preparing to mobilize the military against them as the entire eastern part of the country fell out of Prague's control. A new prime minister, I forget his name, was elected and tried to stop the use of force but his political rivals and a few generals were ignoring him/making attempts on his life which is why he turned to Germany for help and gave Hitler the go ahead to move in and restore order.
There were other various separatist and communist militias too. Like I said, there was a imminent government collapse or civil war.
Yeah. When you have a minute, read up on some stuff like Verdun or, really, anything about WWI. The French were legit. The whole "cowards" thing is completely unjust
But what the Bongs aren't telling you is the French were heavily involved in both of those battles too. While the Somme, for example, was a primarily British push and they lost 95K men, the French lost 50K in the same battle... and 150K in Verdun.
This is deaths. Casualties in these battles totaled over a million, some of these guys were going home without legs or with half their face melted off from gas.
Only to push a few miles at a time.
That war was a slaughterhouse.