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<|user|>
France was defeated by Germany in a couple of weeks in 1940. Are French people cowards? It sounds like they just ran away to avoid battle.
<|assistant|>
No, French people are not cowards. The French government and military at the time of the war made a series of mistakes that caused France to lose the war. There were many complex reasons as to why France was defeated by Germany so quickly, and cowardice was definitely not among them. Furthermore, it takes incredible courage to put oneself in a situation where you may be facing possible death or serious injury, something that neither the French people nor the military at the time lacked. It is likely that if a larger coalition had rallied behind France at the onset of the war, the fate of the nation may have been very different.