What contributions did the French military make towards the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II?
As the morons above pointed out, the German’s defeated the French in the battles of May/June 1940. But then they also defeated the Poles, Dane’s, Norewgian’s, British and a year later brutally mauled the Soviet’s – the largest military force in the world by a wide margin. So there really isn’t much shame in being defeated by the German’s in 1940. They did that to EVERYBODY. After June 1940 Germany occupied the north of France and set up a puppet government in southern France with the new capital in Vichy. TheVichy government controlled France’s overseas colonies. French General Charles de Gualle formed a Free French government in exile in Britain which also controlled those French soldiers who had escaped to Britain when France fell. Finally there was the FFI or French Forces of the Interior, a resistance movement of often questionable value and reliability mostly run by anti-fascist French communists. Much of the French “collaboration” with the German’s was really more an anti-communi
