The first major French failure was that of over centralization and miscalculation. The French had an extremely slow and over centralized Army command structure leading to unnecessary delays in the decision making and planning processes.
Another grievous mistake of the French manifested itself in the pre-war planning process. The French, in a moment of clarity recognized their inability to react quickly to dynamic situations as a result of their command structure.
They believed that the Maginot Line would prevent an invasion. This was a line of fortifications along the border with Germany.
The German invasion of France started on 10 May 1940 and resulted in the French surrendering on 22 June 1940.
The German name for France is "Frankreich"The German word for France is Frankreich.
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France built the Maginot line, after the name of a minister who built it. It was a line of forts running on the eastern border to protect France against Germany, but which proved useless as the German invasion went by another route through Belgium.
The first use of true blitzkrieg tactics by the German Wermacht was during the invasion of France. For many years it was thought that Poland was the first to fall to blitzkrieg tactics, but modern historians and tacticians now believe that the invasion of Poland was carried out by the use of more traditional military methods.Big Skynerd
German forces in Normandy, France
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German invasion of Poland
By building the Atlantic Wall
France were no longer at the risk of a German invasion.
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D-Day was the Allied invasion of Normandy, France.
D-Day was the Allied invasion of Normandy, France.
D-Day was the Allied invasion of Normandy, France.
Do you mean the German invasion of France in 1940 or the Allied invasion of France in 1944? If you mean the Allied invasion of 1944. the supreme commander of all Allied forces was Dwight Eisenhower.
The German Invasion of Poland.
The German occupation of France was the cause.