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Did the French humiliate our POWs in WW2?
Posted on 7/4/26 at 6:51 am
Posted on 7/4/26 at 6:51 am
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Posted on 7/4/26 at 6:57 am to prplhze2000
Appears some did, under the direction of their Nazi overlords.
As is happening in NYC today, we have witless people siding with evil.
As is happening in NYC today, we have witless people siding with evil.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 6:59 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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As is happening in NYC today
The Cajun Navy should go liberate the US POWs in NYC.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 7:03 am to prplhze2000
The French got steamrolled by the Germans and were truly a complete non-factor in the war after that.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 7:04 am to prplhze2000
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Historians attribute these incidents to a combination of German propaganda, collaborationist sentiment, and the complex political divisions that existed in occupied France. Only weeks later, Paris itself would be liberated by Allied and Free French forces.
The answer to your question was right there in the post.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 7:15 am to Kcrad
Yeah and there is a lot of AI fabricated crap on social media too as you well know
Posted on 7/4/26 at 7:40 am to prplhze2000
Will you take my word on it that, yes, Allied POW's were hit, kicked & spit on by French citizens after being captured in WWII?
I am not AI
Happy 250th
I am not AI
Happy 250th
Posted on 7/4/26 at 7:51 am to Kcrad
The French collaborators got punished as well.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 7:58 am to prplhze2000
Wait til you hear how the Swiss treated allied airmen who went down over Switzerland.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 8:02 am to tiggerthetooth
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The French got steamrolled by the Germans
While it did take only six weeks for France to fall to the Germans in 1940, it didn’t go down without putting up a fight.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 9:14 am to prplhze2000
Read up on what the Japanese did to our POWs and get back with us.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 9:34 am to prplhze2000
The French humiliated themselves in WW2
Posted on 7/4/26 at 9:36 am to Darth_Vader
It took the citizens and the french underground to mount any resistance. The french government was and is full of a bunch of sissies.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:02 am to AllDayEveryDay
Not sure about how France was initially divided geographically , a part under French rule & the rest under German but the French police matched the Germans when it came to its treatment of Jews. They sent hundreds of thousands off to the death camps and viciously enforced Germany's anti Jewish laws.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:04 am to AllDayEveryDay
Amazing how after the war was won every French citizen was part of the French Resistance.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:13 am to choupiquesushi
quote:Ralph Ignatowski on Iwo Jima
Read up on what the Japanese did to our POWs and get back with us
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:15 am to prplhze2000
I always thought our country beat showed who we were by how well we treated pows. Germans and Japanese prisoners gained weight played sports and were paid equivalent to their US army rank.
So they went home fatter and with more money than their brethren who weren't captured.
So they went home fatter and with more money than their brethren who weren't captured.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:26 am to choupiquesushi
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Read up on what the Japanese did to our POWs and get back with us.
I just read 2 books about the soldiers from the Bataan Death March and what those soldiers had to endure for 3.5 years. Of course one of them was from James Bollich from around Eunice, LA. The Japanese were our enemies. The French weren’t.
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:44 am to prplhze2000
Charles Lamb, a Royal Navy Swordfish pilot, was a prisoner of war in a camp run by the Vichy French. They were extremely brutal and sadistic to the English prisoners. He wrote a book about it, "To War in a Stringbag."
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:48 am to Kafka
That scene in Flags of our Fathers
ETA: and Letters from Iwo Jima
ETA: and Letters from Iwo Jima
This post was edited on 7/4/26 at 10:53 am
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