Well said
Asturias and
wiggy.
I live in the south of France and have lived in Belgium and France for 25 years. It is well worth taking the time to look at local museums and war memorials and to see what the local people had to suffer. People in Poland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other occupied countries fought just as bravely as us.
Britain was very lucky to have had 20 miles of sea between it and the continent, other wise we would have gone the same way. There was no way Britain could have stood alone with out La Manche, and the RAF.
And if you want to see what happened in some places I suggest people go to Oradour-sur-Glane:-
https://www.oradour.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane
It could so easily have happened to us.