I knew it was meant to be a joke, but I'm tired of the misrepresentation of what happened. It is a discredit to the French, British, and Low Countries soldiers who fought and died. It also happens to discredit the Wehrmacht which means people underestimate what they were and what they did and thus lose the chance to learn the lessons they need from the campaign.
The first was referring to prior wars, and was a joke.
The Germans DID occupy France, so a joke regarding their room and board expenses is valid, and doesn't refer to any perceived or actual military capability or the sacrifice of theirs,
The last, well, are you making the argument that the maginot line WAS effective? And I don't mean "effective because it forces them to roll through the Ardennes and kill Belgians instead of going directly from Germany to France while not actually resulting in substantial delays of the advance because dammit, those Germans won't take armored units though woods..right?"
Not only that, I didn't refer to the British, Belgian, or Dutch at ALL.
Basically, chill out, not only has the French as a bunch of smelly flag waving surrender monkeys been around since, well, like the beginning of time, as most of European history (napoleonic wars and various british/french "who's island is it" times notwithstanding) is basically "people from the east (usually those organized imperalistic ones with harsh consonants and extraordinarily long compound words) invade France...repeat"
As for discrediting the Wehrmacht? Where did you pull that one out of?
