Anytime! Glad to see a French native speaker here!
I speak french but I’m Belgian the Belgium is a little country when all the army of the time and the world love us like a battlefield :lol:
Yeah, France was conquered after 6 weeks. However, I do not believe that 137,000 Germans were lost. If I remember correctly, only 30,000 Germans were killed in the invasion of France. Of course the Germans would slaughter the French more; the Germans had the better strategy. I’ll look into it more.
Here’s what wikipedia says:
Casualty estimates vary in the Battle of France. Approximately 27,074 Germans were killed and 111,034 were wounded, with a further 18,384 missing for total German casualties of 156,000 men. In exchange, they had destroyed the French, Belgian, Dutch, Polish and British armies. 1,900,000 Frenchmen had been made prisoner. Casualties were 90,000 French killed, 200,000 wounded, and 68,111 British, 23,350 Belgian, 9,779 Dutch and 6,092 Poles killed or wounded. Total allied losses including the capture of the French army amounted to 2,292,000.
Hi,
here a cyberlink on part of the line maginot which is close to my village of childhood :arrow: http://www.ligne-maginot-fort-de-fermont.asso.fr/
they write the armistice but it is in 1940!
I’m not French 