>flee in terror before your enemies and abandon an allied nation in the process, leaving thousands to be slaughtered and captured
>somehow spin this into an example of glory and heroism, when you would viciously mock and degrade an enemy power for doing the same thing
Is there anything the eternal Anglo can't do? How do they keep getting away with it?
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The saying used to go, "Britain loses every battle except for the last one". Nothing Britturds love more than an underdog.
The Dinkirk evacuation made strategic sense and was an impressive feat of logistics but the level to which Brits cream themselves over it is goddamn embarrassing
Then again if you take it away they don't have much from that war to crow over other than the firebombing of Dresden. The best way to be a British hero is to either flee from German soldiers or barbecue German civilians
Also they forgot to mention how it's the surrender monkeys who faced the Germans so the bongs who were cowering on the beachs could evacuate
Poor brittles...
>Smash up all your vehicles to deny them access to the enemy before you leave instead of setting them on fire or blowing them up
>Forget your enemy is German and a natural aptitude to fix things
>This absolute Madman is given a factory in Paris and permission to pick through the captured material
>Repairs enough to field entire divisions.
>the Brits were heroes and the French were cowards
By far the worst WW2 meme
Give the fucking Limeys a land border with Germany and see how long they hold out
>By far the worst WW2 meme
Agreed
Both were cowards imo (but the Brits a little more)
>a stop-order is instated so that the whole British army in Europe won't get wiped out and so that Germany might sue for peace
>Anglos refuse, flees and instead stabs Germany in the back
BEADY
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Fucking bongs...
Yes the headline should've said "We're fucked, better surrender to Hitler right this instant." right? Because fuck morale and public opinion.
Eternal Anglos were just the energetic little hype man there to goad on USA and USSR, the real scary bruisers of the allied war effort.
They're like the angry little manlet who gets in a few kicks and stomps while his big buff friends beat somebody up in a bar fight, then proceeds to talk the most shit in the aftermath
>Bomb German cities first
>Cry as Germans bomb your cities
>Go full retard on German cities with the excuse 'We gotta reduce industrial capability, we gotta dehouse, muh reap what you sow'
> Ends up only affecting German output under 10 percent
>War ends and you try to charge Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine officers with war crimes unironically
>Based Goddamn Chest Nimitz doesn't swallow that bullshit, stands up and defends his German counterpart Donitz by admitting he did the exact thing to the Japs as the Krauts did to the Limeys but even worse
>Forces the buttbasted bongs to back down
> Can't charge the Luftwaffe generals without having their defense lawyers point out the amount of shit the Bomber Harris and others did to Germany even after it was clear the war was over
Britbongs everyone.
Well, they're fucking degenerates with a inferior-complex because of their past.
Still like them tho. Probably because their language will be one of the few languages left in the future.
Evacuating 300k men from a makeshift harbor is definitely an amazing feat of logistics. Germany for example got 300k captured because it couldn't pull it off.
This eternal anglo meme is getting way too ridiculous now.
>BEF lost 68,000 casualties or captured
>100,000 French evacuated
watch as the Constant Continental spins lies
and more importantly sinks any potentially interesting thread even marginally related to British history with shitposting
I want /int/ to leave
>Bomb German cities first
fuck off revisionist
Fighting fair is for powerful losers, the brits were weak winners
>Bomb German cities first
>What is Rotterdam
>What is Guernica
Germany had already lowered the bar before a single British bomber flew over German skies
cry more
Why was France allowed to administrate a part of post-war Germany? Why wasn't it just UK/US/ West and USSR East?
Because technically france was at war with germany the entire time and was one of the major powers who beat them. Technically
>Guernica
go away Picasso
To cover the blemish of being occupied for four years I suppose.
Except that they did in 1939, Anglo cuck. It was a miserable failure, but they started that shit.
The British hit Wilhelmshaven first, fuccboi.
>Hitting a military dockyard
>The same as outright targeting the civilian population
You can add Warsaw to the list as well
I agree. The historical crimes the eternal Anglo has gotten away with truly is a ridiculous meme
>BEF lost 68,000 casualties or captured
Not at Dunkirk, faglord
>100,000 French evacuated
Only after every bongs had been evacuated first
>Although Churchill had promised the French that the British would cover their escape, on the ground it was the French who held the line while the last remaining British soldiers were evacuated. Enduring concentrated German artillery fire and Luftwaffe strafing and bombs, the French stood their ground.
>On 2 June (the day the last of the British units embarked onto the ships),[Notes 2] the French began to fall back slowly, and by 3 June the Germans were about two miles (3 km) from Dunkirk. The night of 3 June was the last night of evacuations. At 10:20 on 4 June, the Germans hoisted the swastika over the docks from which so many British and French troops had escaped under their noses.[35][36][37]
America allowed it in order to make sure the French would be on their side for the upcoming Cold War
Free France and the colonies played their roles, overlord operation would have probably been a failure if not for the resistance, after the liberation France helped to beat Germany.
Beside the fact that it was a powerful country that could easily administrate Germany by its proximity, I think it's quite enough.
And this. Also USA wanted to make France a satellite country at the end of the war. De Gaulle was not fond of the idea and prevented it.
>, overlord operation would have probably been a failure if not for the resistance
What? Are you serious?
Yes, that's not well known but that's pretty much a consensus within the historians community.
The resistance made reconnaissance and cut down the supply lines of Germany, preventing them to bring troops in order make a counter attack which would have been disastrous for the allies.
That was also the point of view of the german military staff and Eisenhower who made a speech about it.
Let's not forget how a bunch of partisans in some irrelevant village managed to draw 20,000 German troops away from frontline at the very moment the invasion was occuring
>Yes, that's not well known but that's pretty much a consensus within the historians community.
I have literally never heard a single military historian claim that. Cite three, please.
>The resistance made reconnaissance
This is true, but it was hardly the only source of reconaissance, the constant overflights did quite a bit too.
>and cut down the supply lines of Germany,
Bullshit. As reluctant as Trenchard was to divert bombing resources away from razing German cities to interdict railheads in France, it was the rial offensive in the late spring of 1944 that wrekced the infrastructure, not a few bombs from the inside resistance.
>That was also the point of view of the german military staff
[citation needed]
>Eisenhower who made a speech about it.
[citation needed]
The closest thing I'm aware of to that is a statement by Patton that the French resistance was worth a couple of divisions.
>He actually thinks that troops from the French Alps were there to stop Overlord and not successive landings out of Italy that would later become Dragoon, or that the French resistance had any appreciable part in why those troops were deployed there.
Do you know how many men Devers rounded up and captured with the southern offensive? Do you really think all those troops were there to stop 4,000 rebels, or the entire fucking 7th army?
Harris, not Trenchard. Slip of the pen.
>. Also USA wanted to make France a satellite country at the end of the war.
{{citation needed}}
>muh British cowardice meme
>On the morning of 15 May, French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud telephoned the new British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and said "We have been defeated. We are beaten; we have lost the battle." Churchill, attempting to offer some comfort to Reynaud, reminded the Prime Minister of all the times the Germans had broken through the Allied lines in the First World War only to be stopped. Reynaud was, however, inconsolable
>Churchill flew to Paris on 16 May. He immediately recognised the gravity of the situation when he observed that the French government was already burning its archives and was preparing for an evacuation of the capital.
>Churchill asked General Gamelin, "Où est la masse de manoeuvre?" ["Where is the strategic reserve?"] that had saved Paris in the First World War. "Aucune" ["There is none"] Gamelin replied.
>Churchill asked Gamelin where and when the general proposed to launch a counterattack against the flanks of the German bulge. Gamelin simply replied "inferiority of numbers, inferiority of equipment, inferiority of methods"
>Gort replied that this was General Billotte, the commander of the French 1st Army Group, but that Billotte had issued no orders for eight days. Ironside confronted Billotte, whose own headquarters was nearby, and found him apparently incapable of taking decisive action.
>New French Commander Weygand had little sense of urgency. He claimed his first mission as Commander-in-Chief would be to get a good night's sleep. Weygand was guilty of wasting valuable time, time that was needed to form a quick and powerful counter-attack.
>He cancelled Gamelin's planned offensive, then wasted several days making courtesy visits to dignitaries in Paris.
>On 23 May, Billotte was killed in a road traffic accident, leaving the Allied First Army Group in the pocket leaderless for three days. Billotte was the only member of the Allied armies thoroughly informed on the Weygand plan's details.
British cowardice is anything but a meme
You abandoned your continental allies and ran away to your island exactly like you did in 1795
If one lesson can be drawn from history it's that you better not count on Brits to save the day when a country tries to take over Europe
>asked to post source for the claim that us planned make france into a satellite country
>posts something totally different
Well that was pointless.
Some context for the following since I ran out of space
>Gort replied that this was General Billotte, the commander of the French 1st Army Group
Billote was the commander of the Army that the BEF where fighting under. The British where not in command they where fighting for French commanders a commander that then died with orders that he only knew meaning the British had no orders nor option other than to retreat. Weygand could have turned the Battle of France around but he cancelled the original counter offensive and then later proposed a similar one by which time it was too late and the forces where divided. It was the Belgians first who said no counter offence could carry on and warned the Brits that they need to protect the channel ports so they can get home. Britain where no cowards and I am not saying the French where but the French command fucked everyone involved.
Why do you come to the Veeky Forums board and shitpost? why not just go to /int/ or something?
Fun fact: the soldiers on your pic were hailed as heroes by the BEF because they were the ones defending the evacuation for the whole time and only took the sea in extremis after every Brits had fled
Except you are wrong as Brits where left behind.
>On the night of 24/25 May, the defenders were forced to withdraw from the southern enceinte, to a line covering the Old Town and Citadel; attacks next day against this shorter line were repulsed. The Germans tried several times to persuade the garrison to surrender but orders had been received from London to hold out, because an evacuation had been forbidden by the French commander of the northern ports.
French commanders even forbade some British from retreating so that they would stay behind and help hold. Half of all soldiers evacuated at Dunkirk where not even British. Britain is literally nothing but a scapegoat for the Battle of France.
,000 French evacuated
>Only after every bongs had been evacuated first
And most of the French troops who evacuated to the UK were VOLUNTARILY REPATRIATED back to France, where they sat out the war waiting the Allies to save them, while they contributed to the German war effort and when it was over, they all claimed to have been part of La Résistance...
They went back because the war wasnt over yet, but then the government surrendered a few weeks after
There's no much they could have done
>b-but they should totally have deseerted the french army and decided to stay in Britain, thus dooming themselves to exile and maybe never seeing their families again if Britain made peace with Germany a while after
Easy to judge in a hindsight
It's not some epic adventure movie
Not everyone will desert to join the expatried free French corps (that didnt even exist at the time these soldiers went back to France) and fight against le ebul nazi without a second thought
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How the fuck did 160,000 Germans not blitzkrieg them
They were ordered to stop.
Gerd von Rundstedt ordered a stop as the Germans themselves needed rest and refueling themselves, but he only made this call because Goring assured him the Luftwaffe would make sure the British were incapable of sending sufficient transports to evacuate them.
Goring, in what would soon be typical fashion, didn't do his job.
Except the stop happened way before that
The moment shown on the pic is when the Germans went on the offensive again
And they did indeed overtake the outnumbered French defenders eventually, the French managed to hold like 3 days, which was just enough to evacuate the BEF the two first days plus 100,000 frogs on the last day
All these mad frenchies
>the soldiers on your pic were hailed as heroes by the BEF because they were the ones defending the evacuation for the whole time and only took the sea in extremis after every Brits had fled
>be french
>invade germany while the germans are attacking Poland
>get driven back
>get conquered
>be British empire
>defend your country
>drive out the Italians and Germans from North and East Africa
>Liberate Italy
>drive Japanese out of India and Burma
>most forces on d-day
>help americans liberate france
>invade Germany, taking cities such as Hamburg
>be french
>invade germany while the germans are attacking Poland
>get driven back
>get conquered
Holy shit, is that how teach history in Britain?
The reason frenchies got BTFO is because they sat on their shitty maginot line while the krauts were in Poland instead of attacking them
Success breeds contempt lads :^)
>be Britain
>declare war on Germany
>send your army on the continent
>it loses in a month and cowardly flees back to the island while the French protect them
>a bunch of exiled Poles are now forced to save Britain from the Luftwaffe
>a few while after that, 85,000 brave Britons surrender Singapore to 36,000 Japs
>Brits now cower on their island until America arrives to save the day in 1944
>Brits bandwagon them
>"Hurra we won!! Britain stronk!! Greatest victory since that time we won the American Revolution (but then decided to withdraw)!!!!"
>projecting this much
The Battle of Britain was a fairly big deal, no?
>the Brits were heroes and the French were cowards
but they were, dumbfuck.
I give you that Singapore was embarrassing af
Dunno about French being cowards, but Brits definitly werent heroes
They were French-tier but just happened to have somewhere to hid
So was your performance on the continent in 1940 and you being saved by Poles after that
>they were french tier
They were being clever, if they didn't evacuate then the Germans would have easily taken the UK.
french were definitely cowards. where do you think the phrase "surrender monkeys" comes from?
as for us brits, we were ALONE fighting nazi germany between 1939-1941. Churchill called it "the darkest hour", because not even amerifats helped us
>saved by Poles
Poles helped us and we are grateful for their help but saying they saved us is ridiculous
>85,000 Brits surrendered to 25,000 Japs armed with 19th century rifles and WW1 tanks
>where do you think the phrase "surrender monkeys" comes from?
British butthurt.
>we were ALONE fighting nazi germany between 1939-1941
If cowering on your island while being bombed to ashes can be called "fighting", that is...
Pathetic Brits denying we saved them
that's a million times more than what the french did (ie surrender and shit themselves in southern france)
Meh
To me it looks just like what the french would have done if they had been separated from Germany by a sea
Actually the UK fought in Greece and Norway... which was all in vain besides the battle of Crete which forced Hitler to stop using such large parachute assaults
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>surrendered and ran away abandoning their allies both times
>Alone
>dozen commonwealth states supporting them, with the US shadow supporting them
hahaha WE'LL FIGHT THEM ON THE BEACHES
justbritishthings
Norway and Greece were completely occupied, nothing else you could do.
What about being good at war and preventing the Germans from taking over them to begin with?
It was quite hard
the germans didn't win and the british didn't lose
you can't realy say the british won and germans lost
but this outcome favored the brits greatly (it made any kind of german invasion of the isles impossible) while it weakened the german greatly without achieving no decisive advantage (the
RAF manged to regain its strength and even surpass the 1940 level in rather a short time span)
UK's biggest achievement during the war was not losing and putting up a resisting enemy pressure until its stronger allies (US and USSR) managed to change the course of the war, and even this is admirable
I hope you're aware that Italy's numbers dont count
Shooting them down wasted ammo
Britain could have realistically prevented Norway from being taken, except for their mistakes.
Okay, I agree with you guys that Britain was pretty pathetic during WW2, but you can't deny their conquest of Iceland was impressive
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>being this desperate
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Wasn't there at one point one squadron of fighters defending the entirety of Greece from the Luftwaffe? I think Roald Dahl was a pilot in that squadron.
im dying of laughter from just the thought of you being serious,
goddamn thats good
mfw unchallenged
BIG
we are good at propaganda
He's big on it in his autobiography. Should really reread it, haven't since I was a kid.
>britain's last word to Italy
which was?
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