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Episode 202, The Fall of France, to Make a Corpse Feel.

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Last episode left off with the French government and military leaders discussing the fate of

Paris. Would the city be defended from the advancing German troops, risking its destruction,

or would it be declared an open city and handed over without a fight. It was an important decision, but

also one that would have to be made quickly because all along the German offensive, the French

defenses were beginning to collapse. After failing to stop the Germans along the Somme and the

Ann rivers, by June 10th in many areas, the French were retreating back to the Sen and the

north and the Marn to

the east of Paris.

This time, there would be no miracle of the Marn, which had saved France in 1914.

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