Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:42 PM 11/30/2000 +0100, Alan Hull wrote: >From: Marc James Small >> Well, to be fair, the French and British armies late sliced through >the Wehrmacht "like a hot knife through butter" > >I wouldn't call a five year campaign "like a hot knife through butter" But it wasn't a "five year campaign". It took the Germans in 1940 six weeks to clear France of the BEF and to cause the French to seek an Armistice. It took the Allies in 1944 from 6 JUN until the German border was reached in September -- three or four months. A bit longer -- but the Germans had had four years to build massive defenses -- and they took massive casualties in losing France, much higher than either the French or British took in 1940. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!