Hello, and thank you for listening to the History of World War II, Episode 35, Sundering.

The German Franco-Armystis was signed.

Germany could now focus on Great Britain, and the French could focus on rebuilding France.

On the continent, the war was over, but it was immediately replaced by another war.

This one of words, the antagonists, the former allies, and it started the very night of

the armistice.

The French people, especially those on the roads running away from the Germans, were

understandably the most relieved, but Churchill and De Gaulle only felt rage.

They both vented that night over the airways.

De Gaulle's message would soon become his mantra.

This war is not lost.

It is not a Franco-German war that can be decided by a single battle.

It is a world war.

He compared the armistice with enslavement, then finished by asking his countrymen again

to join him.

Churchill was equally angry as well, but also in shock.

He spoke for his government when he said it could not believe that these conditions would

be accepted by any French government in possession of its freedom, its independence, and its

constitutional authority.

A victory of Great Britain constitutes the only hope for a restoration of the grandeur

of France and the freedom of her people.

Pétal and his cabinet felt the same relief their people felt, but his peace of mind was

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