French National Fete (1939)

[@glennnottingham857]

Unfortunately they were so unprepared. 😔

[@Ben_not_10]

I disagree. The reason the French army lost is I believe due to poor leadership and mixed moral. Due to poor birth rates following WWI, France simply didn’t have the man power to fill the ranks in the same way Germany was in the interwar period, so France laxed the rules regarding who could be conscripted. Where before, anti war groups like socialists and groups like them were banned from service, the government had little choice but to conscript them. However, when the fighting began in 1940, it was primarily units comprised of men who would previously have been deemed unfit for service who were the first to cut and run when German shelling began, leaving their more experienced and more determined comrades to fend for themselves. Even the Germans noted how inconsistent the French units were. Some unites would either completely collapse/surrender/retreat in disarray, or it would take until they ran out of food and ammunition and/or were completely cut off from resupply that they would finally give up. Combine that with generals who were a mixed bag of bad and worse apples. And the fact they were hamstrung by the British REFUSAL to gain strategic ground by invading Germany, the French army was forced into a position of letting the Germans choose where and when they would fight. Had the British pushed into the Ruhr valley and covered the French left flank, the French had the arms and men to have completely broken through the Seigfried line and have crossed the rhine either forcing the Germans to reduce their campaign in Poland, or have surrendered all together. The bulk of the German army was in Poland. Had the French government and the British government allowed their generals to be more aggressive Poland might have been saved.

[@HONORTONUMERIC123]

@@Ben_not_10 yeah.... That's right France didn't have that much of man power like Germany used to have...... Eventhough France didn't revoke anybody to fight in those wars..... They just used to stay in their safe zone..... But unfortunately those bad and dangerous things has happened with those people or country.....

[@hasanihzazasif9526]

@@Ben_not_10 germans actually won becoz they want revenge from france, they were really hunger to destroy france for treaty of versailles. And even the whole german nation wanted war against the france

[@Ben_not_10]

@@hasanihzazasif9526 that’s the cliff notes version, the reason I gave is one that is historically proveable and goes deeper than just “mustache man mad”

[@Gyllaume]

Well france was more prepared with better technologie ... but i bet you d'ont know how to read

[@Waldemarvonanhalt]

France was totally let down by Belgium's shift in foreign policy. The Maginot line and French army did its job.

[@onpjP9238HJOhudiezuhD]

Belgium, my love country but hitten by colonialism atrocities.

[@kingfishcl8083]

Biggest cope of the last century

[@checkcommentsfirst3335]

Sure bro

[@aristostovboulimienne2743]

3.54-4.22 This is essential for an historical brainstorming above all in our context

[@HONORTONUMERIC123]

Yeah..... For an historical brainstorming..... That's for sure..... Need to think twice or thrice..... For the good cause....

[@bycracket7295]

Wow great military, i bet it was undefeatable

[@abu.omar1_]

࿕

[@keithpritchard1181]

Yes, no wonder they declared war on Germany. It looked like they would crush le boche like an ant. Appearances are deceptive though.

[@Gamer_Kot]

They got crushed by German Blitzkrieg

[@speedymarinecore2409]

They are weak actually. The USA would have kicked their asses

[@Gyllaume]

At this it was the greatest army of the world just some dumb general... anyway way stronger that the us army🫡

[@maxlgl_02]

Ça c'est la France 🇨🇵💪

[@user-rg6vf5tf2g]

Yeah 1941 Wehrmacht in Paris

[@phillipblake6931]

@@user-rg6vf5tf2g 1945 French troops in Germany 😘🇨🇵

[@onpjP9238HJOhudiezuhD]

@@phillipblake6931 not only, German Empire was declared in Versailles 😁

[@phillipblake6931]

@@onpjP9238HJOhudiezuhD German Empire was destroyed in Versailles 😘

[@onpjP9238HJOhudiezuhD]

@@phillipblake6931 Yeah but now it is in Ukraine... and supported by D.C.

[@JabuLICORNE]

On aurait aimé voir une partie du défilé motorisé.

[@HWDragonborn]

2:41 "slant-eyed Indochinese" Wow, they really don't hesitate back then

[@kingfishcl8083]

Back when france was french. What a crazy difference

[@Voland1871]

Half of the units shown were not French.

[@zasawkaczmarek2651]

Pokaz siły co się nie sprawdził jak doszło do prawdziwej wojny.

[@luchito2000]

Russia hahaha

[@nameunknown6453]

Exactly my thoughts! 😂

[@rooplalchoudhary9070]

French were defeated in india by british . Therefore the french got control of only 4 cities in India. While british controlled whole of the india with nearby countries, the kept indians fought heavily with british to get independence, finally we got independence in 1947, august 15 . British were worn out by ww2 , so they left india.

[@HONORTONUMERIC123]

Yeah.... Revoke is the sense of thinking where anything can happen anytime without their state of mind, subconscious mind or unconscious mind.....

[@henkschrader4513]

Don't forget the german aid you got

[@Charliecomet82]

Even at the end, the Third Republic had style...

[@fatihmerrien4869]

La nation la plus puissante au monde

[@hachwarwickshire1718]

Well ... that didn't end well ... Did it !

[@roisanglier34]

Vive la France 🇨🇵 tellement triste que les anglais et les politiques ont abandonné la France

[@hkboi7433]

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[@vivelafrance6314]

Les anglos ne supportent pas d'avoir un allié égal à eux. Nous leur avons sauvé leurs culs à la Somme même si nous étions occupé à Verdun; Nous les avons couverts pendant qu'ils se retiraient sur leur île; Nous avons risqué nos vies pour sauver nos alliés, mais l'anglo en retour a essayé de nous humilier. De Gaulle avait raison de dire qu'on ne peut jamais faire confiance à un anglo.

[@HONORTONUMERIC123]

Yeah.... That's right.... But somethings has happened for good cause..... That too on their daily schedule of their life's for the recognition of that country to this world by their fashion, culture, traditions, food culture and many more......

[@raphaelhalfon7247]

S'est les généraux qui ont abandonné la FRANCE! Le Générale Gamelin... Il y a eu un procès en Aout 45 et ils on été jugé...

[@roisanglier34]

@@raphaelhalfon7247 ils n'ont jamais était jugé sauf par Vichy pour leurs mauvaise conduite mais bon les principales responsable reste les politiques

[@DonRoux]

Beautiful Beautiful Empire

[@xminisheebanshee9372]

L’état-major, l’état-major… Pourquoi il se sont dit qu’une forêt allait arrêter l’armée allemande.

[@Gerd_Bod]

These troops - in their lovely outfits - with determination in their faces - were smashed away easily by the Wehrmacht within one year after this parade.

[@henkschrader4513]

Indeed😁

[@alainproviste3523]

Try to educate, before to write the same boring comments. ? For your information, 100,000 French soldiers had been killed in the 6 weeks of battle of France in May-June 1940, with 156,000 Nazi casualties. Dead, wounded, missing. It was the French who covered the Dunkirk evacuation, by slowing down the Nazi assault on the city for 10 days. France is not only Paris, you know. Fightings, often fierce were hundreds miles away, mostly on eastern or Northern France, near the Belgium border. Paris was declared open city by the French government, only after 6 weeks, to avoid bigger destructions, because the battle was already lost. That doesn't mean the fights were over. A lot of French units continued to fight after the armistice, who was signed on June 22, 1940, and surrendered only on order.

[@alainproviste3523]

In case you didn't know, after 1941 De Gaulle reconstituted a new French army, from French North African colonies, who fought the Nazis on all theaters until 1945. From North Africa to Germany. Free French forces numbered 1.3 million active in Europe in 1945. 4th Allied Army in numbers.

[@alainproviste3523]

French World War II casualties, 600,000, military and civilians. More than all the US losses, on all fronts, not even 420,000, or more than the UK losses, 450,900. Nearly 70,000 French civilians killed by "gentle" Allied air raids, who razed to the ground dozens of cities, often in useless raids. France, after Germany, was the second most bombed country of Western Europe, with 518,000 tons of bombs dropped in 5 years.

[@alainproviste3523]

I really appreciate ignorant morons, who always remember the 1940 failure, who was an accident, forgetting centuries of victories and domination. Through more than 1500 years, France is the country with the highest rate of military victories, often alone against entire coalitions, and when north America was still a desert populated by Indian nations. All true historians know it. The greatest battle ever was a French victory : the carnage of VERDUN, 1916. The only wars that US public have ever experienced near them are watching Hollywood Spielberg stuff in movie theaters, or crowds shootings, their national sport. Pathetic.

[@gillouha757]

La meilleure armée

[@HWDragonborn]

Oui, invincible et imbattable

[@FontaineLovers]

i bet the next army march they see in that city will be shocking 😂

[@SafetyProMalta]

12 months later the colour was feldgrau marching....

[@phinsfan5405]

Mean while Hitler was laughing his ass off

[@maniac3449]

Sadly, most the men in this parade died in ww2

[@mikeharley3136]

And a year later the Wehrmacht was marching down the same route the French marched after the First World War. This parade was the last gasp of the Third Republic. The end of white, European colonialism was probably the best thing that ever happened to the French, who could go back to making baguettes and sleeping in.

[@alainproviste3523]

Try to educate, before to write the same boring comments. ? For your information, 100,000 French soldiers had been killed in the 6 weeks of battle of France in May-June 1940, with 156,000 Nazi casualties. Dead, wounded, missing. It was the French who covered the Dunkirk evacuation, by slowing down the Nazi assault on the city for 10 days. France is not only Paris, you know. Fightings, often fierce were hundreds miles away, mostly on eastern or Northern France, near the Belgium border. Paris was declared open city by the French government, only after 6 weeks, to avoid bigger destructions, because the battle was already lost. That doesn't mean the fights were over. A lot of French units continued to fight after the armistice, who was signed on June 22, 1940, and surrendered only on order.

[@alainproviste3523]

In case you didn't know, after 1941 De Gaulle reconstituted a new French army, from French North African colonies, who fought the Nazis on all theaters until 1945. From North Africa to Germany. Free French forces numbered 1.3 million active in Europe in 1945. 4th Allied Army in numbers.

[@alainproviste3523]

French World War II casualties, 600,000, military and civilians. More than all the US losses, on all fronts, not even 420,000, or more than the UK losses, 450,900. Nearly 70,000 French civilians killed by "gentle" Allied air raids, who razed to the ground dozens of cities, often in useless raids. France, after Germany, was the second most bombed country of Western Europe, with 518,000 tons of bombs dropped in 5 years.

[@alainproviste3523]

I really appreciate ignorant morons, who always remember the 1940 failure, who was an accident, forgetting centuries of victories and domination. Through more than 1500 years, France is the country with the highest rate of military victories, often alone against entire coalitions, and when north America was still a desert populated by Indian nations. All true historians know it. The greatest battle ever was a French victory : the carnage of VERDUN, 1916. The only wars that US public have ever experienced near them are watching Hollywood Spielberg stuff in movie theaters, or crowds shootings, their national sport. Pathetic.

[@alexlake5892]

The British marching through Paris? Despicable....

[@randomobserver8168]

That went south quickly.

[@alainproviste3523]

The French 1940 failure was an accident for many reasons, such as the devastating French losses of World War I, which are still visible 22 years later, as this previous war was mostly fought on French soil. 1.4 million killed and 4.5 million injured. For a population of 40 million. Entire generations. And the population of Germany in 1914 and 1940 was 70 million, almost twice the French. The sea saved the English, otherwise they would have been crushed like all Europe. Russians were crushed during 2 years, with a population of 188 million and a territory 10 times larger than France in the European part of the USSR. During World War II they had lost over 5 million prisoners. And US 1940 army would have been pulverized by the Nazi blitzkrieg. Even in 1944, their troops were saved more than once by their air forces.

[@SK-lt1so]

Talk about a bad year...

[@raphaelhalfon7247]

Mais pourquoi la France a pas invité l'armée Allemande à défilé?

[@bam3795]

Pourquoi t’as pas invité ton cerveau à commenter ?

[@raphaelhalfon7247]

@@bam3795 Le 14 Juin 1940 l'Armée Allemande a défilé sur les Champs Elysées, et il y a pas eu de problèmes...

[@bam3795]

@@raphaelhalfon7247 le 14 juillet 1945 quand l’armée Française de Libération a défilé à Berlin non plus…

[@raphaelhalfon7247]

@@bam3795 Le 14 Juillet 1940 le défilé a été annulé sur ordre de Hitler, le 11 Nov 1940 il y eu des morts à Paris! Il faudra attendre le 14 juillet 45 pour que tout redevienne normal!

[@xaliktelhas3058]

@@bam3795the soviets marched in berlin not the French . France lost ww2 in 1940 and surrendered

[@ramiroguerrerobustillos6141]

paz y amor

[@cakeyummy6608]

Me and the bois ready to surrender to Germany:

[@el_jaguar5122]

In the name of humanity, please open a history book in your life

[@el_jaguar5122]

Nan vraiment t’es ridicule frère

[@cakeyummy6608]

@@el_jaguar5122 chill it's just a joke I made last year

[@Mike-eu9qf]

Lach

[@vebastiansettel253]

Perhaps they should have invested more time in training so they wouldnt get blitzkrieged in 1940 instead of marching LMAO

[@shelv9538]

Yet they were trained enough to save the entire BEF at Dunkirk thus keeping the britos in the war LMAO

[@vebastiansettel253]

@D Anemon if they leave the ardennes open lmao. they have luck hitler stoped his order at dunkirk, otherwise britan would have surrendereed too and with britian fallen the whole world would be too.*

[@vebastiansettel253]

@D Anemon LMAOO. learn history. even with covering 5000km of coast, germany still nearly won against udssr who got tousands of artillery, tanks by usa and gb. you should really stop talking if you that dumb

[@georgea.567]

@@shelv9538 Dunkirk only happened because the French army had collapsed. Great they let some of the British Army escape without it's equipment.

[@cia1784]

@D Anemon lmao still believing that western BS? America literally had to send a BILLION dollars to help the soviets with their romured “Loss of money”

[@darkdelta3377]

lol

[@HyperInsomnia_]

그저 엘랑ㅋㅋㅋ

[@bobhayett2376]

"The "queen" of battle, the infantry of France." LOL with special emphasis on the word QUEEN...

[@RPMZ11]

Says the mouse that hasn't won a war since WW2.

[@Jugement]

Because 'Infanterie', aka the french word your own language derives its own from, is a feminine word, bozo. And the quote originates from France, where it was called as such. Its has been a common occurence since then to call the infantry "Queen of battles". US tacticians and writters have done the same for their own countless times, but how you could know. Loud yet uneducated

[@라랄라라라-w1n]

1940💀💀💀

[@Demun1649]

IF, when France invaded Germany in 1939, and the BEF had turned up ready to fight, (which they didn't), the war would have been over very quickly. But the British were very good at signing treaties, they had seven such protection treaties with Nepal at the time of the Chinese invasion but like the self-serving cowards they are, did nothing although the British Empire forces in India were the largest in the world. Poland was sacrificed to both Germany and the Rus. Yet very great use was made of the Free Polish forces, then they were chucked out at the end of the war. The ENGLISH are hypocrites.

[@henkschrader4513]

The germans knew the french wouldn't push through so france actually got outsmarted in multiple ways

[@Demun1649]

@@henkschrader4513 When the French army attacked the Nazis in 1939 they advanced 16 kloms into the Nazi state. They didn't know that since 1933 the goblin chief, Hitler, had stopped alll exports of Nazi maps to any other countries. So no current maps. The French were honourable, the Nazis were not. And, as usual, the English looked after themselves. Always Perfidious Albion.

[@henkschrader4513]

@@Demun1649 hitler took multiple risks starting with completely breaking the treaty of Versailles wich was a test of how fast they would interrupt as was the annexation of austria and the 2 invasion after that after wich the British and French drew a line but with all that hitler knew that the British and french probably weren't gonna do anything drastic for at least a few months, enough to finish the invasion of Poland... and if the french had pushed through the could've easily been trapped on enemy territory since they had to go through thicc woods before even reaching the first german villages so they took the guess that the war could be ended in another way. Had belgium helped by letting the french pass through into Germany then it might have ended very early but still with many casualties...

[@Demun1649]

@@henkschrader4513 Hitler was exactly the same as Putain. Pushing little bits, then getting bigger and bigger, until France and the bloody English just had no way out. It was the English that deliberately slowed down the reactions because they stupidly thought that Hitler was both clever and intelligent, And all he was, was another Trump, thick as mince.

[@henkschrader4513]

@@Demun1649 you obviously have your daily American propaganda intake wich would explain your behavior.

[@pradyumn2692]

"A French tank has 5 gears, 4 reverse and one forward for parades" - A German joke

[@BFVK]

No, it's an american "french surrender joke". It makes smile only people without much knowledge.

[@Your_Favorite_French_Man]

Only people with no knowledge of history can find this funny or say this . Even more when French tanks were stronger than the germans one in the war the only thing they didn t have was good communication

[@너가최고-m3p]

프랑스 식민지 학살 반성해야

[@sansoushi6299]

Vous allez recommencé avec ça on peut dire la même chose des anglais et de japonais

[@ahadfazal7177]

Whn german face them ..😂😂

[@perryroldhan1758]

vive les futurs anciens cons battus ! tagada tsoin tsoin !

[@BFVK]

Pouet pouet !

[@grishazamok50]

USSR winner

[@septimiusseverus343]

Through sheer weight of numbers.

[@grishazamok50]

@@septimiusseverus343 Negativ

[@septimiusseverus343]

@@grishazamok50 Postitiv

[@cakeyummy6608]

Not in 1991 lol!

[@grishazamok50]

@@septimiusseverus343 Negative

[@flashingarrows]

On their way!!! (to getting their ass kicked)

[@Your_Favorite_French_Man]

For humanity open a history book please

[@ИванАтаман]

Будущие СС?

[@jeraldsamuel5598]

"Mighty colonial empire..."🤣 More like SAVAGES from bongo bongo land.🐵

[@sansoushi6299]

Sale raciste de mes 🍒

[@rodrigohenriquezdelavega9607]

Impresionante!