Triumphs Of Marketing – The French Resistance

Via Oleg Volk

Dated.

It’s fair to say that the Second World War wasn’t very kind to France; Invaded by the Germans, abandoned by the British, half of the country occupied and forced to pay for the privilege, most of the army locked away in POW camps, and a national shortage of pain au chocolat – and that’s just the first 12 months!

It then got even worse.

The British, who had run away at Dunkirk sneaked back and destroyed the French fleet at Mers al Kibir, and then for good measure occupied French Palestine. A couple of years later the Japanese stroll unopposed into French Indo-China, the British take Madagascar, the Americans invade French North Africa, the Germans occupy the rest of mainland France and the Italians take over Corsica.

By the spring of 1944 it would be fair to say that France had been comprehensively beaten, betrayed or abused by just about everyone. And to be a Frenchman was like saying that you were a cheese-eating surrender-monkey, except that most of the cheese was now getting shipped to Germany.

But wait! The flame of honour still flickers in the hearts of all true Frenchmen, for France will be great once more due to the heroism and bravery of the armeé secreé – better known as the French Resistance who will sweep the invader out of La Belle France and return the country to its rightful place once more at the head of all nations?

– Yeah, right!

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