Title: France is Dead Source:
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Was it this easy for Herr Hitler's troops to occupy France?
I would say that Hitler had the last laugh, forcing the French to sign the Armistice in the same rail car the Germans had to sign the Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW I. ;)
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The Russians and the Germans had a lot of economic relationships and military contacts before the war. Stalin for example let the Germans run secret tank and flying schools which operated under the radar of Veresailles armaments prohibitions. These schools were shut down after 1933 when the ideological strains between thes two countries became too severe.
There are a lot of nooks and crannies of history that are not commonly explored in our homogenized curricula. There's always a lot of cozying up between potential combatants before all hell breaks loose. No telling quite who is going to shoulder to shoulder with whom or against whom with the outbreak of general war. We could be in for some surprises when next the fuse is lit.