And France and England have a long history.......................before WW2......Hitler annexed Austria..........he was by birth an Austrian...............then he invaded Czechoslovakia.............then part of Poland...................at that point both France and England declared war on Germany...........they knew Hitler was not stopping there..............and sure enough.........the German military machine invaded most of western Europe, save for Switzerland and the Iberian penn.........................
Geography is what saved the British...........the English channel......................which they rescued the French high command..........Charles DeGaulle...........who ended up being pres...............
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The Battle of Dunkirk was an important battle that took place in Dunkirk, France, during the Second World War between the Allies and Germany. As part of the ...
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Dunkirk is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It lies 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the Belgian border. The population of the city (commune) at ...
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The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle ofDunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and ...
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Dunkirk, and the evacuation associated with the troops trapped on Dunkirk, was called a "miracle" by Winston Churchill. As the Wehrmacht swept through ...
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