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We speak of the breakthrough it's done

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but actually the break was along a wide
front extending for fifty miles from my

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mother in Belgium to a
society further north.

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The Allied armies had swung like
a gate into these positions.

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The German armies had swept over Holland
broken the line of the Albert canal

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and for all anyone knew we were preparing
to smash against the Allied front with

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all that power that was
the situation dangerous

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but I'm still are on the evening of May
thirteenth on the fourteenth and fifteenth.

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It became clear

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that the German break through south of
namo I was in the greatest strength

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and that's the French ninth.

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Aami attack while moving into
position had been shattered.

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Without doubt this was the
point of mortal danger

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and the French High Command ought as
the abandonment of these positions.

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Although they had not yet been attacked
those positions four abandoned solely

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because of the situation
developing along the my message

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that in the meantime the French
Seventh Army had been ordered to

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make its historic forced
march far to the south.

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Into the area threatened by the rapidly
advancing German spearheads they sign me

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was not used to attack the German flag

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but rather was used as a plug
to restore the broken front.

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Throughout the allies that placed their
faith not in our fence fight in defense

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and the defense was doomed to failure
because it was confronted with an entirely

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new technique in warfare the planes
tank infantry team in action.

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The world was staggered by the speed with
which the German armored columns moved.

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What was the secret

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that unable to move so far so rapidly the
secret lay in the organization of the

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strike and spear forces came.

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First closely followed by motorised divisions
which peeled off farming solid walls

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and through the car

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that farmed raised the supply trucks
to feed the ever lengthening column.

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It was obvious

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that if the allied situation was to be
restored the German column would have to be

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cut on May seventeenth general to
go all the time to the German flank

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and captured a few prisoners

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but his night mechanized forces were like
a pinprick ing the side of a rhinoceros a

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subsequent attack met
with even less success.

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The means for a really successful counterattack
against the German Carta simply did

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not exist where numbers of divisions
were required only handfuls of companies

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and the talents were of a level
a valiant attempt to cut the

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German Karta was made by a group
of slow moving British tanks.

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Just south of Iraq

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but lack of sustained striking power
doing this valiant to destruction on May

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twenty first the German sphere had
reached the channel part of Abbeyville

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protecting their flank along with saw the
Germans fanned out to the north and east.

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This was to be the press example of
annihilation on May twenty eighth the Belgian

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Army compressed into a small space and
wary of battles lay down its arms

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that left the desperate French

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and British defenders with their backs to
the sea out the small channel partners

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don't care one of the greatest
disaster has resigned in the making.

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A British Army faced annihilation.

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But out of the fog in the midst bombing the
channel he must arrange Amada Navy crab

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fishing boat pleasure yacht anything that
would float he going to pull a button

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that come to rescue

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that I overhead British fighter planes
pass them the water to a sometimes

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I'll be long haul allied suicide units

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and all the German tanks long enough
for the miracle of Dunkirk to take

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two hundred eleven thousand
five hundred British troops

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but a hundred twelve
thousand five hundred French

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and Belgian were rescued over three
hundred thousand battle tested men grimly

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determined to go back again with a new
tool new weapon with which to blast the

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hated Nazis out of this World War three
men are like rubber ball the harder they

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fall.

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The higher they bomb hitting the British by
this time was a man who had been poncing

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all his life.

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Winston charged with trying for years
to warn the world about Germany.

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Meantime the situation the face of France
was as nearly hopeless as a military

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situation can be two fifths
of the French army was lost.

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There were fewer than fifty divisions left
to defend the front almost two hundred

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miles long running from the northern
end of the marginal line to the sea

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and behind

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that ten front line there
were no reserves despairing

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people of power sent their
children to sell crack.

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That some miracle would
keep them from harm the the

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best men of the French
army without adequate arms

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or equipment to brace themselves for the
coming blow the first blow fell on June

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Sept the French Resistance was determined

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but by June eighth the left
flank army had been shattered

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and a general withdrawal was obvious
to the line of the mine and the same.

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On June ninth the German.

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Main attack came within
two days the German army

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and motorized divisions brought out into
the open terrain with this break through

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the usual of the Battle of
France was decided and from

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that time on there was
official talk of an armistice.

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Now what about the famous marginal lines.

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Let's go back and take a
lots on June fourteenth.

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The Germans launched two attacks
against the Maginot Line In both cases

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penetrations were affected
but we must remember

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that this was against fortifications defended
by man defied of hope in the meantime

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Mr leaning now thinking is safe

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and his division racing across
the board in the hands of

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the data.

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Has cricket into the back of its neighbors

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denies resistance in France
was no longer possible.

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The government face to alternative
rock tired to North Africa

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and carry on from there
or give up the struggle.

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France's leaders were old and tired
and the oldest and most part.

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This Marshall paid tax egged on by men like
Le Baron who saw in the German victory

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his chance for personal power
on June sixteenth Petain house

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but on Armistice the news
is carried to Hitler.

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Who received this word of a great nation.

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All in a characteristic manner.

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Also characteristic with his
terms for the armistice.

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It must be signed in the coach

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when Marshal Foch met the
defeated Germans in the last war.

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The French delegation arrives. The pay
the final price the French disunity.

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And the treachery of some of its leaders a

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final price a price but for centuries
to come the French won't forget.

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More than three fifths of their country
was to be blacked out by a military

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occupation.

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The remainder was to be controlled by a
French government acceptable to him like.

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A tax of four hundred million francs a day
was to be imposed on the French people.

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To support the German army of occupation.

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Nearly two million French prisoners
of war were to be taken into Germany

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and kept there of hostages.

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To work as slaves are run
of hunger tuberculosis

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or other diseases in concentration camps.

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Men deliberately

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and permanently separated from their families
in order to decrease the French birth

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rate. I'm not so limiting France as a
world power in future generations.

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French the various men women

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and children must play Bond farmer in
a factory for the naps a master race.

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Or star there will be a class
of subject alien race.

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We need not hesitate to call them play.

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Frank children were to grow
up on such inadequate food

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that many would reach the age of
twelve before they grew new teeth

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and for any attempts to protest against
these restrictions thousands of innocent

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French civilians would be executed.

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This was the price the French were to
pay as they signed the Armistice of the

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master of the master race let's go to Paris
to tour the streets of what was once

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the flitting of light.

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You notice no cheering crowds
here to welcome in the new order

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of the court.

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When the people of Paris come to the
streets again it is to hear the voice of

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dictators telling them what they must do.

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How they must live. What they must say.

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What they must think telling
them how to be slaves gone

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and for the public of France. Gone.

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Ms free speech in a free representative
government gone news liberty equality

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fraternity. These are the French
with their ears they listen.

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But their minds and their hearts.

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These are down on the Mediterranean where
the battle colors of the regiments are

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being taken to Africa our diplomats to
grasp the people we spent during depart.

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But they don't. Yes You know the
France has hope a rallying point.

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Chiles to go a soldier in the great
tradition of fascist not surrender.

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He will continue to fight gathering about
a memorial for punishment from all over

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the world to come the Free
French army fighting print.

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Yes the people we say
watch their colors go.

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Not knowing the two years later those same
flags would again be unfurled in North

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Africa alongside the Stars

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and Stripes alongside the Union Jack once
more their leaders General de Gaulle in

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the famous general Shiro stand united in
the common cause with the leaders of their

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allies once more the red white

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and blue the French raised on high
ground of the ashes of the defeat of the

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truly ation of France.
So has been born again.