BlairBlade
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Paris is wonderful as are garlic snails.
In truth everyone was ill-prepared for WWII except for the fatherland. If adolf hadn't changed his mind and decided on operation Barbarossa in June 1941 to invade the Soviet Union we would have been at his mercy. Britain was insufficiently armed, prepared, organised and would have have, probably, been incapable of rebuffing an invasion. We would have been no different from many of the other European countries under occupation. Hopefully, there would have been no Petain character in the UK. Who knows, Lord Halifax? Maybe not.
Many men of working age in France were sent to work in Germany. Not that many fought on the side of the Germans. I am in France at the moment. In the village here, the Germans executed 4 teenagers who were part of the local resisitance, as the Germans retreated across France. They didn't simply kill them. They strung them up and executed them - leaving them hanging from trees for all to see. A near neighbour's father was sent to Belsen for refusing to go and work for the Germans. This is a village of 200 people. There are memorials everywhere to members of the resistance, the Maquis, etc. who died during the occupation.
Under occupation I am not sure what you can do to avoid dealing with your occupiers. You have to live, eat, get by, etc. Not sure that is throwing the towel in. Did those in the Channel Islands throw the towel in?
In truth everyone was ill-prepared for WWII except for the fatherland. If adolf hadn't changed his mind and decided on operation Barbarossa in June 1941 to invade the Soviet Union we would have been at his mercy. Britain was insufficiently armed, prepared, organised and would have have, probably, been incapable of rebuffing an invasion. We would have been no different from many of the other European countries under occupation. Hopefully, there would have been no Petain character in the UK. Who knows, Lord Halifax? Maybe not.
Many men of working age in France were sent to work in Germany. Not that many fought on the side of the Germans. I am in France at the moment. In the village here, the Germans executed 4 teenagers who were part of the local resisitance, as the Germans retreated across France. They didn't simply kill them. They strung them up and executed them - leaving them hanging from trees for all to see. A near neighbour's father was sent to Belsen for refusing to go and work for the Germans. This is a village of 200 people. There are memorials everywhere to members of the resistance, the Maquis, etc. who died during the occupation.
Under occupation I am not sure what you can do to avoid dealing with your occupiers. You have to live, eat, get by, etc. Not sure that is throwing the towel in. Did those in the Channel Islands throw the towel in?
