The Germans launched an act of aggression against France.

Battle of France: The Germans launched an act of aggression against France.

The Battle of France, also known as the fall of France. Refers to 1940 in May, the German army began a series of military occupation actions against France and its surrounding western European countries. It eventually led to the fall of all western European countries except neutrality. So what is the brief introduction of the French campaign? After the destruction of Poland and the lifting of the threat from the East, Germany began to eliminate the three "lowlands" in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, clearing the way for the elimination of France. In the early morning of May 1940, the Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber of the German Air Force began to unexpectedly bomb the railways, airports and military areas in France and the "lowlands", paralyzing them in a sea of fire. At 5: 30, with the launch of signal flares, the German mechanized troops began a large-scale attack on Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and the battle of the French army began. According to the "Yellow War" plan, Germany marched into the hinterland of France with the strength of three army groups. Army Group A, under the command of General Lund Stedt, made a surprise attack across the Ardennes, bypassing maginot line, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and reached the English Channel. Under the command of General Bok, Army B assisted in attacking and occupying Holland and Belgium. Army Group C stayed near maginot line, attracting the French army in the defense line. In less than ten days, the Germans occupied the northern part of France and the whole "lowlands" and forced the British and French allied forces to Dunkirk.

On June 3, the Germans carried out a large-scale air raid on the rear of the French army. On the 5th, Army B attacked the Somme and swept all the way. 10 In June, the French government withdrew from Paris and designated Paris as an "unguarded" city. 14, the Germans occupied Paris. After that, German Army A and Army C attacked maginot line, and 500,000 French troops in the line were raped except for a few escapees. 18 In June, France announced that it would stop resisting and surrendering. The battle of France is over. This is a brief introduction to the French campaign.

The Battle of France was an aggressive action launched by the German army against the French mainland. So what were the casualties of both sides in the French campaign? In the French campaign, France, as a resistance country, paid an unprecedented painful price. The French army suffered more than 200,000 casualties, of which 65,438+200,000 were injured and more than 80,000 died. 10.9 million French troops were captured, which shows that the French army is demoralized and has insufficient combat effectiveness. Britain, as an ally, also suffered losses in the French campaign, with more than 68,000 casualties. There are also countries that have been completely annihilated, such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. In the process of resisting German aggression, their troops were almost consumed. In spite of this, Britain made great efforts to save the 338,000 British-French allied forces cornered by the German army in Dunkirk retreat. For the just war, we kept the next batch of precious soldiers and kept new hope for the future counterattack. The Germans suffered heavy casualties in the French campaign.

Although the Germans are invincible all the way. However, the resistance of the British and French Coalition forces still caused some casualties to the Germans. According to statistics, Germany also suffered casualties in this campaign 156000 people. Among them, 27,000 Germans were killed, 1 10000 Germans were injured to varying degrees, and 18000 people disappeared on the way to France. Compared with the losses of the British and French allied forces, the German army was a great victory militarily. However, although France was conquered, the French army was not completely eliminated in this campaign, and about 95,000 French troops withdrew from Dunkirk Port. It left the seeds of hope for the revival of France in 1944. War is a kind of consumption for both sides, and the innocent people suffer the most. It is even more difficult for us to count how many people died in plane fires during the French campaign.

The Battle of France in World War II made France surrender and become an extinct country one year after declaring war on Germany. So what was the impact of the French campaign? One of the most important effects of the French campaign was the demise of France, a powerful European country, which suffered the bitter fruit brought by the appeasement policy. The French government was also divided into a surrender government led by Marshal Betan and an exile government led by General Charles de Gaulle. Britain became the only country in western Europe that opposed Germany, and the world anti-fascist struggle fell into a trough. The victory of the French campaign greatly stimulated the competitive mentality of the Germans. Hitler's ambition to dominate Europe was further released. There is no opponent in the western European continent, which laid a strategic foundation for the German army to gather troops to attack the eastern Soviet Union.

The third influence of the French campaign was that Italy declared war on Britain and France. In the early stage of the war, Italy did not declare war on Britain and France, but with the progress of the war, Mussolini saw Hitler's victory expand and his inner fascist desire was also stimulated. At the end of the French campaign, that is, in June of 10, Italy took advantage of the fire to declare war on Britain and France, which gave France a final blow in the disaster. The fourth influence of the French campaign was to accelerate the establishment of the fascist axis country. Three months after the end of the French campaign, Germany, Italy and Japan signed the three-nation convention in Berlin and formed a three-nation military alliance, which exposed the face of fascism. The fifth influence of the French campaign was to promote the awakening of the people. French general Charles de Gaulle organized a government in exile in Britain and continued to lead the French people in their struggle. Even after being destroyed, the French people are still in the forefront of opposing German fascism. This is the impact of the French campaign.

The French campaign was a fascist aggression campaign and a serious crime against humanity. First of all, the French campaign is a contest between traditional military means and modern military means, and it is a contest of tactics. On the eve of the battle, the number of armored machinery in France was much higher than that in Germany. However, according to tradition, the French army still distributes armored heavy weapons according to the military organizational system, so that each unit has heavy weapons. Although tanks have advantages in number, they have not exerted the real power of tank armor. Different from Germany, the Germans concentrated on using armored machinery to form mechanized group army, and attacked with fists, which was more effective and destructive. Second, different strategic concepts lead to different war results. The traditional military concept of the French army is positional warfare based on defense lines. This strategic view defeated the Germans in World War I. Therefore, on the eve of the war, France built the so-called "indestructible" maginot line on the Franco-German border, and deployed 500,000 elite French troops, equipped with a complete defense system, in an attempt to stop the German attack with traditional positional warfare. However, the Germans did not buy it. They crossed the dangerous Ardennes, bypassed maginot line and attacked the French from behind. The French army suffered heavy losses.

This is not the only comment on the French campaign. The Battle of France was also the beginning of the birth of new France. The remaining French troops who retreated from France, with the help of Britain and the United States, trained new tactics, became familiar with new thinking and learned war in the war. It laid the foundation for the revival of France. The fiasco of the French campaign was also caused by France. The implementation of appeasement policy made France's political and military defense full of loopholes. Fascist connivance made France pay the price of national subjugation. This tells future generations that we can't compromise with evil forces, but we can only fight resolutely. This is an evaluation of the French campaign.