Okay. i have a question, why did france just gave in to Hitler? Was it because of appeasement?

Question

I need to know the name of the prime minister or guy who started appeasement (horrible idea) and into letting hitler think he could be able to take any land he wants in the near future. Any info or input on this? Thanks

Answer 1

They pretty much tossed in the towel after their line was broken at Sudan by the 7th Panzer Division under Rommel at the outbreak of hostilities. They did some counterattacks in the ensuing weeks, but the French High Command was pretty well spent as the Huns approached Paris.

Those Frenchmen who were not defeatists fought in the Resistance or joined DeGaulle in England. Many of them pointed fingers at the Brits for leaving them via Dunkirk, rather than strike south to help defend gay Paree.

The idea of appeasement was a British strategy, pretty much, under Prime Minister Chamberlain, prior to the ol bull dog Churchill taking over and prior to outbreak of hostilities.

Answer 2

The appeasement of Hitler, the Germans taking territories before the war officially began did not come into play in France. In World War II France did not roll over for Hitler, or give up land for appeasement. The French army and air forces, combined with help from the British army and Royal Air Force did their best to stop the Germans and protect French soil. The French had a large army and had built up a line of defenses before the war. They fought until the German's pinned them against the English Channel.

Answer 3

How did you ever come up with the idea that France just "gave in" and did not fight? More and more Americans are under the impression that France never fights, and "gives in". These people do need to read more History books. The French fought Hitler from 1940 -1945, in France, and in North Africa. You may think appeasement is a "horrible idea" now - it is called hindsight - but in the late 1930s, no nations were ready to fight another war just 20 years after the last one (World War I ended in 1918) that cost MILLIONS of lives ended.

Answer 4

France did not by any means "give in" to Hitler. France staged all of the military strength that any other European nation could have at the time, however, ill-preparedness for blitzkrieg tactics, such as the fluke of the Maginot line made the effort seem relatively helpless, and the prime minister of France actually decided to negotiate with Hitler to firstly prevent any further slaughters in battle on behalf of the french, and for the establishment of Vicci France, a puppet government under Hitler's control which gave the french people some semblance of confidence in its government which led to an inarguable boost in french resistance post-occupation. In-so-far as the beginning of appeasement look into the acquisition of the Rhineland.

Answer 5

It wasn't France, but more British prime minister Neville Chamberlain who appeased Hitler prior to World War II.

Answer 6

France didn't "just give in" to Hitler -- France fulfilled its treaty obligations and war with Germany was declared in 1939 by Britain and France (jointly). They did this because Germany had invaded Poland, which Britain and France had agreed to help defend. So they stood up there.

The French and British militaries were inferior to Germany's, though, and when German attacked France in May 1940, they were quickly over-run.

"Appeasement" refers to an earlier policy of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and the specific act of appeasement was the Munich Conference in 1938, where Britain and France acquiesced in the Hitler's seizure of part of Czechoslovakia ("the Sudetenland")

Chamberlain was famously wrong-headed in believing that Hitler's ambitions could be satsified

Answer 7

They were invaded / conquered . . .

On September 1, 1939, Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, invaded Poland according to a secret agreement with the Soviet Union.

On September 3 at 11:15 GMT, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, followed six hours later by France, responded by declaring war on Germany, initiating a widespread naval war. South Africa (September 6) and Canada (September 10) followed suit.

The Soviet Union joined the invasion of Poland on September 17.

Germany rapidly tookover Poland, then Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and France in 1940, and Yugoslavia and Greece in 1941. Italian and later German troops attacked British forces in North Africa. By summer of 1941, Germany had conquered France and most of Western Europe, but it failed to subdue the United Kingdom thanks to the resistance of the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.

Wiki , read more there

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

Answer 8

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Answer 9

They didn't all give in! Just Vici France! Many of them fought tooth and nail and died fighting very hard indeed. Many never gave up - even when they were occupied!