Why have the French never fogiven us.......

[R1Geezer]

for saving their sorry ar5ses?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8328282.stm
Ok the above was link is history but why do they find it so difficult to acknowledge their freedom is down to allied sacrifice?

[coccinelle]

I've read all these answers and realise many of you don't know 'the French' so who 'they' are I don't know. I know hundreds of French people and they aren't how you describe them, read your history books before making any more comments, please.

[R1Geezer]

I never said owt about flaming bales of straw Zeuhl, and as for picture post card fields, yepo that's why the fcuk1ng EU exists of we can subsidise inneficient French farmers.

[craft1948]

They also send their illegal imigrants over here.
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we can subsidise inneficient French farmers
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almost makes you wish you were French doesn't it......

[R1Geezer]

what a tw&t, we bombed them diliberately did we? numpty! Ever heard of Collateral Damage? Might have happenned because we were fighting the Krauts for them don't you think?

Right so we should all farm like the French should we? Right oh! You'd be first to throw the toys out when prices triple, Oh and to pay some more tax to extend the CAP, nice touch! Tell you what I'll pay your one way fare if you fcuk off to France! You get the J Artur badge today, what a Kn0b!

[jake-the-peg]

The French Attitude to WWII is complicated.

You have to remember that 100 years ago there were huge waves of Anti-semitism sweeping Europe.

Check out "The Dreyfuss Affair" where the French Military basically framed a Jewish officer and kept him on Devil's Island despite knowing his innocence.

So Hitlers regieme found sympathisers in France - hell it found sympathisers in the UK (in some very high quarters - you know who I mean)

Don't forget the Vichey Regieme was lead by Petin who was a hero of World War I.

So for France WWII was both a World war and a civil war all rolled into one.

Civil wars are always the most vicious and that's why revenge against "colaborators" was so bad and why the French are very screwed up about the way so many Jews were just packed off without a fight.

It's not as simple as you make it sound but I guess it's hard to understand in a country that hasn't had a civil war in 350 years - perhaps the closest for us is the Irish question

[jake-the-peg]

As for the "Why have the French never forgiven us"

As my wife would say

"It's not always about you, you know!"

[R1Geezer]

ah zeuhl the perennial reposte of the prat when confronted with a superior intellect, I'm in Mensa a55h0le, it gives me a headache trying to think down to your level. I'd look closer to home for the low IQ if I was you.

[R1Geezer]

It "set me off" because you seemed to think that bombing errors were in some way relevant to the question.

[R1Geezer]

appology accepted, sorry for my rants.

[anotheoldgit]

What are you on Zeuhl, or are you permanently backward?

The question was, Why have the French never forgiven us?

To which I answeed: They seem to condemn us for retreating to Dunkirkand then escaping across the Channel.

KNOWN FACT READ YOUR HISTORY BOOKS.

Who Does? answer: The French
When? answer:1940
Where? answer: Dunkirk (Which is a French Channel port)

How many days are left of this half term, because we are getting a little sick, looking after you.