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The Second Fall of France The people of the United States can hardly believe that the present Government of France could be brought to lend itself to a plan of voluntary alliance implied or ...

Even though millions of French troops were manning the defensive Maginot Line in early 1940, Hitler's brilliant blitzkrieg strategy caught the Allies by surprise, and Germany occupied France ...