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Originally Posted by makko2
It's easy to brag about weaknesses of nations when one lives comfy in a nation with 2 big seas on 2 sides and 2 good allies on the other sides - lucky you're not in a warzone facing a ruthless war machine that the Nazis had in 1940 to see that horrible reality being overrun quickly.
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My father was French and I lived in France during the late 50s then off and on during the 60s. Later I lived there for a good part of the 70s. France has a large racist culture and even today when I go over there for business I can see that little has changed.
As for the French Resistance it never was the big movement that Hollywood would have you believe. If I still had the history books from when I was a student in France I would take a picture of the appropriate pages . Otherwise here's a link that should suffice.
The truth behind the French Resistance myth