When France fell to Germany (and Italy if you’re feeling generous) it mostly became a client state of Berlin. Despite this France never tried to join the axis to fight the allies. So why not? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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Anyone remember the ten minute of Vichy France video?
"No Liabities" Okay Adolf, we gutted your ranks of 150k men and 1300 aircraft, 800 tanks in a few weeks. Some funny white hat of ours blocked your divisions for days in the desert, we held 2 divisions with a few hundred students, but sure, liabilities adolf. Suuuure.
Wait, World War II had a fighting stake in Africa?
Why have I never heard about this before?!
Petain is the Lando Calrisian of real life.
That last paragraph in the newspaper graphic about Mussolini and the Piazzale Loreto! I'm still laughing!
How did the US have an election in 1864?
And anti-british sentiment…. Why because they help them keep their country and world war one? Maybe that's why they talk s*** next snooty towards Americans these days, IF YOU CHECK OCCUPIERS OUT OF FRANCE AND GIVE THEM THEIR COUNTRY BACK FOR THEM THEY WOULD DISLIKE YOU IT SEEMS
Poof
As a southerner, its’s spell y’all. A contraction of “you” and “all”. I love you videos, and the accuracy in them.
This guy actually understands history, it’s not like the many other YouTube channels that cherry pick facts.
brilliant can you do a video of how Malta became a British colony I think it is a very interesting part of British and Maltese history
Work, family, country
Why doesn’t Finland have a monarchy?
"We'll drop the subject" Britain said calmly.💥💥💥
The attack on the French Fleet at Mers is such an avoidable tragedy. The British plan as understood was to give the French the opportunity to turn their ships over , sail them to the carribbean or scuttle them. But due to some petty squabbling bad communication and a dash of elitism none of those were ever realised and many were killed just for the ships to be scuttled later anyway
Very interesting!
Bri'sh: how bout i 'ttck you anyway?
I need you to make a joke with Steve from Minecraft. You can easily design a character like him
Can you make a video on Kashmir? The whole story
The "how he hoped to hang around there one day" Mussolini joke is top-notch and deserves love from all viewers.
Sounds like no one liked the French
Why do the Minnesota twin cities exist? (Why didn’t they become one city)
Surprisingly, Napoleon didn't appear in an episode about france post 1805
Vichy France opposed the Allied landing in N Africa during Operation Torch. Hardly the actions of a neutral
I would say anti-German sentiment was stronger. Pétain was a traitor, and may he burn in Hell for selling out Mother France. 🇫🇷 🇫🇷
What's a Vichy France? You mean France ?
wouldnt be vichy france or korsika the perfect place then to flee the war ?
Indochina: "Thank you, Japan. You have freed us."
Japan: "Oh I wouldn't say freed. More like under new management."
New Idea: How did Axis and Allied powers alike react to FDR's death.
Perfect job with the newspaper… Mussolini visited Milan and hopes to hang around there one day
Some officers from the navy took their ship to britain to continue the fight.
I think if you ask any french that even was remotely interested in history what they think of Vichy, you would be surprised by the sheer "intensity" we have for these people. They costed so much to the known world
“Legit
Legit
Legit
Bite Me”
Cracked me up! Always good humor in these videos.
Can you do one on the German occupation of the British Channel Islands?
Vichy French troops in Lebanon and Syria actively fought the Allied troops – the Australian 7th Division plus others including Free Polish. There is a war cemetary in Beirut of WW2 soldiers of both sides.
"The Vichy Regime" just rolls off the tongue so well 😁
I got a idea. How did World war one veterans feel about the 2nd world war? I know how people like Churchill felt about it but how about the average citizen veteran?
1:24 “had enjoined international recognition as the legitimate ruler of France with some exceptions” then shows a few countries holding up “legit” signs with UK holding up “bite me”.
These little quick jokes is why I watch every video.
Future Topics: Why do the Vietnamese love the USA? Why is Turkey in NATO?
please make a philippines video sa next video
Really kind of a non-issue, isn't it?.France was a power of dubious strength even before the war. It was still a tiger, if only a paper tiger, but after it fell, it wasn't even that. Who really cared what decisions Petain was making on paper? Everybody knew who was calling the shots.
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Maybe someday, someone honest is gonna talk about German Nazi regim report about Vichy. From the begining to the end of the war… This day is gonna be juicy. But from now, let's listen the propaganda ; "thanks to Pétain, we don't need to talk about any french politic from 1930 to 1944."
Vichy France is a prime example of why Ukraine should never surrender.
Why France never joined the axis ? Because Hitler never considered that a single second obviously.