[CJFusco]

Yes, and they would have eliminated more if the army weren't weakened.

"Following your logic, France's ideology was (is still?) evil, since they were happy to let Hitler do whatever he wanted until they realized that THEY were getting raped, killed, etc"

Oh, God. Here we go again with the anti-French sentiment that is newborn as of this war with Iraq. The fact of the matter is that France's military was simply not equipped to oppose the thousands upon thousands of German troops that marched on the country. If they HAD, the French death toll would have been catastrophic compared with what happened in reality. What France decided to do instead was an underground and active resistance, undermining the German forces and providing information to the allies that would have made victory much more difficult than it was. Lives were saved with the French method of dealing with Hitler, and Hitler was eventually defeated.

I am not French, nor to I pretend to like the French people (they are rude and arrogant, in my experience), but I feel the need to defend a people that are suffering the verbal abuse of many, many thoughtless Americans who are solipsistically upset that the French government dares to oppose U.S. policy.