Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Anyway straffo does any of that cahnge the fcat that Vichy france was allied with the nazis? And that vichy france fought against allies? Or that vichy fleet had to be sunk with french crews on board? It doesnt. You know it. I know it. So just accept it, it was a drak period in your nations history as it was for many nations. For many people and for many families and for mnay communities. We have to accept it.
Since you edited your post and as I'm a bit more quiet/calm I'll took the time to devellop a bit.
1st Vichy was never allied with the German
to be allied you have to sign at least some paper... a redition is not enought.
2nd vichy was never a legal governement (even if Roosevelt thought so...)
3rd collaboration is and will be a definite scar for all french citizen.
That set ,let proceed a bit further.
French troop resisted the alllied in lost of place Dakar ,Syrie etc ... they never engaged themselves the fight (they were too weak to do so).
The brit sunk French battleship because they were not confident/respectfull of the parole of our Navy officer.
Toulon prooved them they were scumbag to think so (sorry Dowding from time to time I love hating the Brit
)
And yes I know quite a bit of France history and there is a lot of dark places and some are even darker than what happened last century (but you will have to search yourself
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Ps : I do find extremely derogatory to say it was Vichy's soldier they were not like the LVF they were French soldiers nothing more.
For example the grand father of a friend of min fought against the German , British and American ,German (again:p) next against the vietmin and guess what ...
he was a French soldier in all cases he was fighting for France.
