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Music Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War.

Episode 62, the Third Republic Part 2, The Shadow of Victory.

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I know at this point it's almost a joke

on this podcast, but when discussing events in interwar France, you have to start with the First World War.

In France, anybody who was over 30 years old in 1939 remembered the First World War. Most of their

fathers had fought in the war, and those men who had fought in it were still in the prime of their economic and political power.

To say that the war influenced French political, economic, military, and social developments

during the 20s and 30s is to understate its impact.

Along with the impact of the war was also the consequences of the peace that had been signed,

with a devastating understanding that it was very likely that another war with Germany or some

other power was very likely. When looking back at interwar France today, there is also another

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