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Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski
But you must agree that the beating was not expected and it is hard to imagine, is not it? Something went completely wrong, but what was it?
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British Professor of History - and French speaker - Julian Jackson argues that it wasn't an inevitable outcome...however he also says the defeat had many strands ...the collapse of a political system, the breakdown of an alliance between two countries, and in its final stages, the complete disintegration of a society, following the collapse of morale ....
de Gaulle and Gaullism was about both drawing lessons from 1940 and pretending it never happened...