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[QUOTE="OrangeXtreme, post: 314518, member: 41"]
The fact is that it only took Germany 9 days to reach Paris, and in another month they would have had front row seats at the Cannes Film Festival.
 
To put it simply ... the French were Toast.
 
They had no answer for the Blitzkreig in 1940, and neither did the rest of the world. Even Churchill realized that France was a lost cause and ordered RAF Fighter Command to stop sending planes over the Channel, planes that would be needed for the upcoming air battle over Britain.
 
If the French Army had fought on, they might have slowed down the German advance a little, but they had nothing to stop it. Defeat was inevitable.
 
In the meantime, how many more French cities would have been destroyed, and how many hundreds of thousands of civilians would have been written off as "collateral damage"?
 
You think the French Gov't was cowardly because they didn't fight to the last man. France took 217,000 military casualties and an estimated 350,000 civilian casualties during the war. Would another 250,000 dead have changed anything?  
 
Getting back to the original post that started this little discussion, what you think of as cowardly, others think of as a rational decision given the circumstances.
 
We'll agree to disagree.
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