French Army Quotes
France with the largest Army in the world, did not even hold out against the Germans as long as tiny Norway had done. The military under the Vichy collaborationist government was even worse as many of the few true patriots had gone underground to form a French “resistance.”
Note the propaganda use of the fear of sexual contact between Black men and white women. Ironically, America was at the time even more fearful of interracial union. The rape accusations had never been documented, but when many racial bigots saw colored offspring of mixed sexual union, the assumed that the white woman must have been raped. This official pamphlet was used in German schools starting in 1934. This propaganda was so effective that by the time the Nazis started the military aggression setting off WWII, the Germans already despised the French, Poles, Russians and other Europeans and were highly anti-Semitic. Americans and others in the world knew about the Catechism but did not believe that such nonsense would be believed by anyone. We have the same reaction today to the propaganda that the Palestinians and some Islamic nations use in their schools teaching hate for America, the Christian West and the Israeli and other Jews.
The French had made a series of major military misjudgments and blunders allowing the German troops to reach the interior of France and threaten to rout the French. General French’s forces were called upon to prevent such a rout and did so costing British casualties and diverting British Armies from their desired offensive operations. Then the British Expeditionary Force was again called upon to come to the aid of the French for the second time. General French pushed back but the British really had no other alternative lest their ally could be enfeebled for the rest of the war. The French military leadership and General Staff was terrible at that point.
