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France's Weakness in the War and Why it had to Surrender so Soon…
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France's Weakness in the War and Why it had to Surrender so Soon... In WWII, soon after Adolph Hitler invaded Poland, he ordered an attack on Western Europe. His aim was to smash France and to force Britain to surrender. First, he invaded and conquered Denmark and Norway in April, 1940. Then, he turned southward and overran the Netherlands and Belgium. They then invaded France, where the French were least expecting an attack. France surrendered to Nazi Germany early in WWII because of three main reasons. It was because of their political situation, the fact that they were war weary, and also because they had the Maginot Line as their only strategic way to defend themselves. In the early 1934, scandal rocked the French political world. The Stavisky Affair was a financial and political scandal that shook France in 1934. Serge Stavisky sold huge quantities of worthless bonds. He had connections...
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