I didn't expect to get more info so soon, but from my Atlases and History books I did a tally.
Boy I'm not going to call those Frenchies "Cowards" anymore.
That's just a ploy devised by the Allies or whatever (as far as I can tell) to keep good relations with the French, I suppose it had worked until
now.
But the truth is those French were fighting Tooth and nail, just for the Nazis.
Granted it was the "Vichy France" government pulling the strings, but it was French blood being spilt, and if the French wanted to fight for the
Allies, they more than had a chance after Syria.
Of the 40,000 French troops in Syria, 2,000 were killed, and of the remaining 38,000 only about 5700 opted to join the Free French when they
surrendered. The rest made their way back to France.
Apparently the French were fighting for the Nazis all over the world. They were in Madagascar, where fighting lasted from 5th May, to 5th November.
Now that's a hell of a lot more fighting than was done to keep France free.
Due to the growing numbers of Free French in the Pacific (all foriegn troops though) the Vichy signed over all their bases to the japanese and left
basically.
In North Africa there were 120,000 additional French Troops.
And in West africa there were 30,000.
This is a large contrast to the 3,000 Free French.
Odd, if France wanted to be "Liberated" from the "evil Nazis" then why is it the people spoke and said by a vote of 50 to 1, that they would fight
FOR the Nazis?
French fleets in Oran/Mers-el-Kebir put up a poor fight against the Royal Navy in attempting to keep closed, the Straits of Gibralter.
Man this list is just getting worse and worse.
I think I should have put this in "Political Scandalism" page, because I think honestly they aren't teaching this just because of the want to keep
"good relations."
But by damn, all this time those Frenchies were Axis and they actively fought against the Allies.
*EDIT* Oh I forgot to mention, French Somaliland held 10,000 French Troops, and more to come
[Edited on 8-4-2003 by 5POF]
[Edited on 8-4-2003 by 5POF]