The french resistance in WW2 - Page 3

UncleDynamite · 2004-05-02, 11:34 PM

Random factoid: France is the only country to have lost two wars to Italy.

Anyway, back on topic: can your paper include information on how the French helped hide Jewish refugees? If it can, I might have some information on that.

Jaged · 2004-05-02, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by UncleDynamite

Random factoid: France is the only country to have lost two wars to Italy.

Anyway, back on topic: can your paper include information on how the French helped hide Jewish refugees? If it can, I might have some information on that.

Sure, tell me everything you got.

Cyanide · 2004-05-02, 11:46 PM

Summary of the French resistance in WW2:

French military guy: "Let's build a le wall of guns to keep out the le Germans"
Other French military guy: "but I am le tired"
French military guy: "Well then take a nap....AND THEN BUILD THE LE WALL!!!1"
Another French Military guy: "I am Jean-Luc Picard, of the U.S.S Enterprise"

A little while later...at the wall of guns

French military guy: "Here come the le Germans"
Other French military guy: "Uh, I le think they are le walking around us"
Another French military guy: "Oh le NOES!!!....I am Jean-Luc Picard, U.S.S Enterprise!"
French military guy: "Ok, lets le surrender and le hide behind the Americans and British"

The End

UncleDynamite · 2004-05-02, 11:47 PM

One of the best examples of the French hiding **** is in the town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. After France surrendered to Germany, the pastor of the town gave a speech that led to what one person call "a conspiracy of goodness." If I remember correctly, the town had 5,000 Christians that managed to hide some 5,000 **** during the war. There's a documentary about it called "Weapons of the Spirit." Though it's pretty dry, it gives a good overview of the actions those people took. You'd probably get the same information with a Google search on "Le Chambon-sur-Lignon" and "Weapons of the spirit," though.

That's all that comes to mind, but I'll give you more if I think of any.

Setari · 2004-05-02, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by Cyanide

Summary of the French resistance in WW2:

French military guy: "Let's build a le wall of guns to keep out the le Germans"
Other French military guy: "but I am le tired"
French military guy: "Well then take a nap....AND THEN BUILD THE LE WALL!!!1"
Another French Military guy: "I am Jean-Luc Picard, of the U.S.S Enterprise"

A little while later...at the wall of guns

French military guy: "Here come the le Germans"
Other French military guy: "Uh, I le think they are le walking around us"
Another French military guy: "Oh le NOES!!!....I am Jean-Luc Picard, U.S.S Enterprise!"
French military guy: "Ok, lets le surrender and le hide behind the Americans and British"

The End

The Picard thing doesnt work cuz it wouldnt be USS.

Cyanide · 2004-05-02, 11:56 PM

Picard is from france...duh.

And he's not on the ship at that moment. I hate it when I have to explain humor to people...

I Hate Pants · 2004-05-02, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by Dharkbayne

I don't think there was alot of fighting on that one (Juno, if I remember)

Oh how wrong you are.

We took juno all by ourselves, and suffered the second highest casualties of all beach landings. Omaha took the most. But that beach landing was a disaster. Canadians were the only ones out of all the beach landing to complete all objectives. From then on we moved into Caen, where thier was heavy fighting with the Germans. We managed to take the city, and that was done by ourselves too.

Im only stating the facts here, so don't turn this into an America vs. Canada thread again.

Smaug · 2004-05-03, 12:02 AM

U.S.S. stands for United States Ship, duh.

- I hate when people edit their posts and make mine meaningless.

Veteran · 2004-05-03, 12:18 AM

The Maginot Line is a direct parallel to the worthlessness of America's beloved Missile Defense System.

France could have used the resources that it took to construct the Maginot Line to pose an effective defense if certain corrupt contractors didn't line their pockets with the money.

Now they have a long row of concrete mushroom farms. So it goes.

OfaLoaf · 2004-05-03, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by Smaug

U.S.S. stands for United States Ship, duh.

Eh, for Trek it doesn't.

And as for the French resistance, I'm surprised no-ones mentioned Charles deGalle.

DeadTeddy · 2004-05-03, 08:28 AM

there was an underground, but I think it was only outside the area of the vichy goverment.

and as for the war, the germans were winning until they got stuck in the russian winter. THAT is what made such a difference on the eastern front. combine that with the americans bombing every supply route and you have starving germans with no tracks for their tanks and not enough ammo. if I remmember right the russians lost something like 52 million soldiers in that war, so give them some respect.