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Hello,

When Germans invaded France, from Belgium, I want to know if there were any French civilians and soldiers which escaped to Britain by sea/boats/ships?

I was looking on the net, but couldn't find anything about that.

2006-12-17 00:00:07 · 7 answers · asked by Venus 2 in Politics & Government Military

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A lot of French soldiers were also evacuated to Britain but also a lot of French soldiers stayed behind to hold off the Germans so that more British soldiers could be evacuated. They fought bravely.

Once the evacuation of the soldiers started not to much civilians escaped because there was no place for them.
Exception were the fishermen of Flanders of whom a lot of them evacuated their family by boat to England and after that returned to save as much as possible soldiers at Dunkirk and Oostende. With their knowledge of the coast and small boats they could save a lot of soldiers. (Later on they served in the British Navy, Belgian section)

But the story did not stop here. Immediatly the fall of Dunkirk most of the French soldiers were send back to France to continue the struggle from the departments that where not occupied already. Problem when the French Army had to surrender finaly only a small minority could reach England a second time.

2006-12-17 06:22:13 · answer #1 · answered by Rik 4 · 0 0

Yes there were some civilians that escaped from Dunkirk, but the majority of the French who made it across the Chanel were french soldiers which later formed in to the "Free French", they were under General De Gaul. If you want to see a fairly accurate view on french forces in action watch the movie "The longest day", it shows Free French commandos in action on D-Day.

By the way the invasion of France lasted about 6 weeks not 10 minutes. Then again the Brits were supporting the french at the time.

2006-12-17 00:54:33 · answer #2 · answered by Stone K 6 · 1 0

A few french soldiers escaped with the Brits. Dunkirk was the point of departure.

But most of the troops and practically all the civilian stayed behind.

2006-12-17 00:09:12 · answer #3 · answered by jys 2 · 0 0

Yes, many French and Belgian soldiers escaped, along with Dutch and Polish soldiers too. It's a lot of rubbish that French didn't help liberate their own country- many were involved in D-Day.
You should also read about the Dunkirk evacuation which ties in with this. Try using answers.com for your research.
This in particular is especially relevant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_France_during_World_War_II

2006-12-17 00:07:12 · answer #4 · answered by angrry s 1 · 5 0

it is rather a lot it. France develop into mad about getting invaded by technique of Germany in 1870 in the course of the Franco-Prussian conflict, even in spite of the undeniable fact that France actual declared that conflict and then lost it, and then they were given invaded again in 1914 and rather hung on (and rather hung on again contained in the spring and summer season of 1918). of direction, all the Treaty of Versailles did develop into make Germany mad, which presented about...a 0.33 German invasion of France, in 1940. the fact of the count is that Germany and France were invading one yet another for hundreds of years earlier the 20 th century, besides.

2016-11-27 00:01:16 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

I'm sure as many French people as possible escaped any way possible. I think they surrendered in advance.

2006-12-17 00:08:11 · answer #6 · answered by Firespider 7 · 0 0

France surrendered in about 10 minutes.
But I don't know where they all ran to.

2006-12-17 00:05:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 3

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