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Yuu might be interested to zoom in the Toulon harbor area (FR) and to observe the numbers: 99 ships sunk, representing 290 968 Tons, but only 3 causalities. Here is why [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_French_fleet_...

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This is a factoid I didn’t learn until recently, and it blew my mind. I’m not sure how serious they were, but the UK apparently also offered to merge France and the UK into one country before they fell.

I learned a ton about WWII from this series on YouTube…here’s the week when the UK sinks the French navy: https://youtu.be/gRR683NJOwc

There's tons of crazy things you learn. For example France actually invaded a small part of Germany in 1939 and encountered almost no resistance due to the German invasion of Poland, and had they continued they likely would have taken a significant part of the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Offensive

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