French Intelligence Failure Cost Them France.

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It seems the Germans had a plan to invade France, but they were compromised, so Germany changed their invasion plans and caught the French flat-footed...

 

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Here are some more opening events for France's fall.

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The Mechelen incident of 10 January 1940, also known as the Mechelen affair, took place in Belgium during the Phoney War in the first stages of World War II. A German aircraft with an officer on board carrying the plans for Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the German attack on the Low Countries, crash-landed in neutral Belgium near Vucht in the modern-day municipality of Maasmechelen (Mechelen-aan-de-Maas) within the Province of Limburg. This prompted an immediate crisis in the Low Countries and amidst the French and British authorities, whom the Belgians notified of their discovery; however, the crisis abated relatively quickly once the dates mentioned in the plans passed without incident. It has been argued that the incident led to a major change in the German attack plan, but this hypothesis has also been disputed.
 

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  1. they declared war on us
  2. they fucked up the phoney war big time
  3. they should have won
 

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  1. they declared war on us
  2. they fucked up the phony war big time
  3. they should have won
They won the war because they had a big brother who joined after the Germans declared war on them...
 

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