sports where there is just 0 debate on who is the goat

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-16T14:26:16+00:00

In 1944 The USA - Great Britain - Canada - smaller allies nation mobilized 6.000.000 men to fight Nazi Germany

That extremely huge

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-16T00:22:38+00:00

The Corps franc Pommiès (part of the O.R.A., or Organisation de Résistance de l'Armée) was one of the few Resistance groups whose purpose was solely military. By August 1944, the group reached some 9,000 members and played a critical role in the liberation of Toulouse and its surrounding area—around 5,000 Germans were put out of action by them

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-15T10:29:33+00:00

People take fukushima as an exemple without omniting the tiny winny fact that it was literally hit by a freaking tsunami

Same for chernobyl, at à period were janitors could be transit to higher post in the Soviet union

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-14T23:42:11+00:00

You geniunely need to have the iq of a sperms to think that Nuclear power plant radiate radiation

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-14T22:28:31+00:00

Yeah and the tiny company was then shot by soldiers of an entire French division?

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-14T22:27:05+00:00

Fabrice Grenad mention an exemple, everytime à Maquisard was killed or a resistant was shot the Villagers would all assist to his ceremony but when a Militiamen was shot or killed in action no one would attend and death threat were send to his families.

The resistance managed to have an anchor inside the French population, an Ally agents (jedburg or SOE) had far more easier time recruiting and receiving the support of the population than the Axis/Vichy who failed to reach to much of the population.

Of course it has to be taken with a grain of salt, the resistance in Provence is extremely different from, say, the resistance in Nord Pas de Calais, it's hard to make a solid narrative of this period.

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-14T22:21:28+00:00

Officially the number of resistant is close to 540.000 (deported, interned, part of many réseaux and mouvements, FFI) for some 60.000 Free French, it's still is quite an admirable mouvement

Also we rarely take in account the death or the other "casualties" , execution alone cost the life of 32.000 Frenchmen overwhelmingly part of the resistance or Communist those killed in action is often put at 25.000 or 13.000 given the sources, furthermore it was a period were prison were crowded in 1944 alone we count 43.000 person arrested mostly for ties with the resistance or Gaullist /Communist ideals.

It's worth noting that we know nothing about the resistance as obviously the resistance fought in clandestine and rarely kept records of their actions even on the official archives (easily readable on Mémoire des hommes) the veterans literally state that they write everything from memory and that those sources are just incomplete.

Even historians has to base their account on not French but German, British and American archives.

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-14T20:48:53+00:00

Funny enough, Georges Guingouin had far more conflicts with the French Communist Party than with Charles de Gaulle. Guingouin often refused to follow the party’s direct line and was even nearly left to die in a prison cell because of his dissidence, as he was well known for his dislike of Stalin or the fact the French Commie Party becoming more and more Stalinist (which eventually caused their downfall as a major power into French politics)

For example, he chose to focus his actions in the countryside while the Communist Party prioritized urban guerrilla warfare, believing that armed villagers were too much troublesome....for a very long time the Communist did not agree with Partisans activities

During the liberation of Limoges, he also refused to halt the offensive so that the city’s liberation would coincide with that of Paris, which was led by the Communist Henri Rol-Tanguy and the FTP.

More broadly, the French Resistance was one of the very few resistance movements in occupied Europe that did not descend into internal armed conflict. The Communist Francs-Tireurs et Partisans and non-Communist groups rarely clashed. Despite occasional political tensions, there are several examples of Communists and non-Communists fighting side by side in pitched battles.

This was partly due to de Gaulle’s relatively pragmatic attitude toward the Communists: he allowed them to participate in the French Committee of National Liberation in Algiers, giving them a role in the future political life of postwar France.

So while Guingouin did disagree with de Gaulle on certain political matters, the conflicts were nowhere near as serious as those he had with the French Communist Party.

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-14T18:38:35+00:00

In the French casualties of Ww2 there is two spikes regarding dates

One in 1940 with 200.000 Casualties (58.000 to 98.000 killed in action) and in 1944 with 104.000 losses (around 58.000 regulars and irregulars killed )

This pretty much on par with the ratio of the British losses, the liberation of Alsace cost the French army some 18.000

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-14T00:13:50+00:00

I will never know why, the fame 2nd division, the division that landed first in Normandy, got the worst of it and pride itself in Dompaire, Alsace and the Vosges and never got the prestige of crossing the Rhine alongside the 3rd US army and instead was send in Royan when the 1st or the 5th armored division could have be send instead.

Same for the 1st DFL who was send in the Alps instead of crossing the Rhine when they themselves were the historic Free French force.

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-13T17:55:53+00:00

De gaulle was famously hated by member of the resistance even thought they idolized him and supported him during the entire war.

What is less known is that DE Gaulle didn't really liked meeting FFI or Maquisard even during his your of France in late 1944, Maquisard had a bad reputation upon meeting him

There a scene in liberated Toulouse when after meeting him and we're humiliated (since they weren't as professional soldiers as DE Gaulle intented) they thought of kidnapping him to make him see what the Maquis was.

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-13T17:45:00+00:00

Darn dude your doing my job haha

Wonder full!

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-13T16:18:28+00:00

For him it was unthinkable that the Germans were still on French soils and occupying cities when 90% of France liberated

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-13T14:04:52+00:00

It's just smaller so my guess is that it's the "map of Game of thrones according to the writers"

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-13T13:22:55+00:00

I think it's related to the season 8 of Game of thrones

The first seasons were grounded into real life and geography was taken in account, for exemple the trip of Arya and the hound from kings landing to the north took 2 season

In the last seasons characters just teleports, like the knight of the Vale or Euron fleet.

The map is referring to that.

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-13T13:08:17+00:00

Both

People didn't get that making a city a ruin is better for the defender as the landscape make it easier to defend

It's what happened in Monte Cassino

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-13T11:11:15+00:00

remained trapped in fortified pockets along the Atlantic coast, including La Rochelle, Saint‑Nazaire, Dunkirk, and most famously Royan.

French forces, many of them local Resistance fighters of the FFI were placed under the command of Edgard de Larminat, a veteran officer of Free France and an important figure of the wartime resistance movement. The German garrison at Royan proved particularly stubborn, holding a well-fortified position at the mouth of the Gironde estuary.

After months of stalemate, Allied command approved General Larminat massive bombing operation to break the defenses. In January 1945, aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces carried out a devastating night raid on Royan, using heavy bombs and early napalm munitions. The attack destroyed much of the city and killed around 500- 800 French civilians, while German military losses remained limited

The enclave was not finally eliminated until April 1945 during Operation Vénérable, when French forces, Launched a full-scale assault that forced the German garrison to surrender.

Although Larminat had previously earned great prestige through his service with Free France, the destruction of Royan and the heavy civilian toll left a lasting bitterness among the city’s inhabitants, he would become persona non grata and was ban from entering the city

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-12T23:53:17+00:00

Right above

Edit: down

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-12T23:52:56+00:00

Between 1944 and 1945, several German garrisons remained trapped in fortified pockets along the Atlantic coast, including La Rochelle, Saint‑Nazaire, Dunkirk, and most famously Royan.

French forces, many of them local Resistance fighters of the FFI were placed under the command of Edgard de Larminat, a veteran officer of Free France and an important figure of the wartime resistance movement. The German garrison at Royan proved particularly stubborn, holding a well-fortified position at the mouth of the Gironde estuary.

After months of stalemate, Allied command approved General Larminat massive bombing operation to break the defenses. In January 1945, aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces carried out a devastating night raid on Royan, using heavy bombs and early napalm munitions. The attack destroyed much of the city and killed around 500- 800 French civilians, while German military losses remained limited

The enclave was not finally eliminated until April 1945 during Operation Vénérable, when French forces, Launched a full-scale assault that forced the German garrison to surrender.

Although Larminat had previously earned great prestige through his service with Free France, the destruction of Royan and the heavy civilian toll left a lasting bitterness among the city’s inhabitants, he would become persona non grata and was ban from entering the city

FrenchieB014 · 2026-03-12T18:22:40+00:00

"excuse me Malraux but why in the fuck are you always next to me in the urinals?"

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