Hurdegaryp wrote:Good one. De Gaulle was actually one of the creative military thinkers that came up with the principle of fast modern warfare that we now know as the Blitzkrieg. The Germans didn't invent that concept, but they were the first to actually execute it. If only De Gaulle had risen to a more prominent place within the French military before the Second World War erupted, then the events of 1940 might have gone slightly different.
He was probably the only bloke in the entire peninsula who knew the Maginot line was a joke. Now I don't know if he would have been able to stop the 3rd Reich dead in its tracks in 1940, but they definitely would have had a much, much harder time.





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