when the germans went around the French Maigot Line and cut off part of Northern France..
did the remainder of Frence Forces in the south larger or smaller than Germans ?
French forces Summer 1940 numbers query
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Re: French forces Summer 1940 numbers query
Before or after Dunkirk? After Dunkirk, the BEF, Belgium and Dutch armies were off the board. Large numbers of Frenchmen had been evacuated without equipment or surrendered. End result: you had German 140 Divisions vs. about 70 French Division, about 30 of which were tried up in the Maginot Line. Defeat was inevitable.