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Poland Remembers start of WW2 [200]
In the West, in 1939/40 they used little more than their middle finger and the British ran very fast back home across the channel.
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* German armored strength May 10 1940: 2439 battle tanks, of which 349 Panzer III and 278 Panzer IV.
* Allied armored strength May 10 1940: 4204 battle tanks including 300 Somua and 274 Char B.
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* Allied Airforce in continental Europe: 4,469 of which at the front: 1,453
* German Luftwaffe: 3,578 of which at the front 2,589 (w/material advantage)
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* Germany deployed about three million men for the battle.
* Because of a low birthrate, which had even further declined during the First World War, France had a severe manpower shortage relative to its total population, which furthermore was barely half that of Germany. To compensate, France had mobilised about a third of the male population between the ages of 20 and 45, bringing the strength of its armed forces to over six million men, more than the entire German Wehrmacht of 5.4 million. Only 2.2 million of these served in army units in the north, though the total there was brought to over 3.3 million by the British, Belgian and Dutch forces.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 - Sir Alistair Horne
