They also got lucky that sectarian violence amongst groups (incited by the US) took a lot of the heat off them. If they had united, it may have very well been different. You need a national liberation struggle to unite people for this reason.
Kind of reminds me of how the Nazis rolled over a France riven with sectarian fighting so they concluded that kicking in the door with a tank spearhead would always make the whole house fall down. That, and a deep-rooted racism, made the Germans utterly unprepared for the USSR fighting tooth and nail the whole way.
TBH, the main reason for France’s defeat wasn’t sectarian fighting, it was that Allied command literally sent better half of their army straight into the trap, expecting Germans to repeat 1914. And then they were encircled and crushed.
it’s a very nazi type of idiocy to loudly shout for 10-20 years that you’ll murder every slav from poland to the pacific, and then get caught with your pants down when they really really dont want that to happen.
meanwhile, most of the french could expect life to more or less go on under nazi rule. they could afford to surrender.
They also got lucky that sectarian violence amongst groups (incited by the US) took a lot of the heat off them. If they had united, it may have very well been different. You need a national liberation struggle to unite people for this reason.
Kind of reminds me of how the Nazis rolled over a France riven with sectarian fighting so they concluded that kicking in the door with a tank spearhead would always make the whole house fall down. That, and a deep-rooted racism, made the Germans utterly unprepared for the USSR fighting tooth and nail the whole way.
TBH, the main reason for France’s defeat wasn’t sectarian fighting, it was that Allied command literally sent better half of their army straight into the trap, expecting Germans to repeat 1914. And then they were encircled and crushed.
it’s a very nazi type of idiocy to loudly shout for 10-20 years that you’ll murder every slav from poland to the pacific, and then get caught with your pants down when they really really dont want that to happen.
meanwhile, most of the french could expect life to more or less go on under nazi rule. they could afford to surrender.