The Battle of Sedan: The Anatomy of Failure 

 

For General Huntziger, no "benefit of the doubt" as suggested there.
His actions betray him as do his political opinions.  He was pro-Nazi.  Like some other French generals.
Read, if you understand the language, the voluminous and detailed volume 'Le Choix de la Dêfaite' by Annie Lacroix-Riz.
(my copy is unfortunately part eaten by termites)

 

And also:
https://historiens-en-colere-forum.com/la-trahison-militaire-francaise-de-mai-juin-1940/ 

 

Or, for a brief review in English, see here:
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9558 

Is that narration AI?  Fascinating subject matter but I can't get past the over done accent and nasal tones. 

13 hours ago, flaming dragon said:

Is that narration AI?  Fascinating subject matter but I can't get past the over done accent and nasal tones. 

It does sound like the main audio (not embedded clips) might be automatically generated from text that was manually generated.  Not typically what one nowadays understands by AI where it would be difficult to synchronise dialogue, or rather monologue, with images.

However one typical give-away is lacking: a pause at the end of each printed line.

The battle for Stonne, which changed hands 17 times in 3 days:
http://www.johnsmilitaryhistory.com/Stonne.html 

 

One of the factors which undermined the French Army in 1940 was the existence of extreme right-wing sympathies amongst some senior officers and extreme left-wing sympathies amongst many conscripts.

 

To illustrate the latter:  a retired French baker I met about forty years ago, originally from Lorraine, recounted how he was evacuated from Dunkirk, repatriated to France, and during a further retreat threw his rifle and ammunition into a canal "Because I was not going to fight for capitalism".  He was a communist.
I mentioned this to a friend who was a communist since his youth (and whose father had escaped German captivity, reached England via Spain, was parachuted back into France to support the maquis, and later became a four-star general!) and he said "He was greatly mistaken."  But as George Orwell once remarked, the Stalinist were mistaken in saying "Democracy = Capitalism" and then later "Fight for Democracy".

 

See also Georges Loustaunau-Lacau, far-right but anti-Hitler, in his 'Mémoires d'un Français Rebelle, 1914-1948', Paris, Robert Laffont, 1948, 368 p.
He founded the clandestine intelligence network l'Alliance https://pointer-alliance.fr/alliance.html (known to the Gestapo as l'Arche de Noë) which after his arrest was headed by Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, author of the book 'l'Arche de Noë'.  It was one of the two largest and most successful Allied intelligence networks in occupied France.  The other being l'Agence Immobilière.  For more on which see the publications of its 2i/c, Colonel Brouillard alias Pierre Nord: 
https://booknode.com/mes_camarades_sont_morts_tome_1_la_guerre_du_renseignement_0823502 

 

(My copies of all these books and many others are on the far side of the world)