French forces Summer 1940 numbers query

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LAstryAGAIN
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French forces Summer 1940 numbers query

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Post by LAstryAGAIN » 29 Mar 2023, 18:52

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 ?

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Post by rcocean » 30 Mar 2023, 16:31

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.


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