To be fair and to balance things up, (in fighting aside) the resistance fought bravely under the Nazi jackboot for 4 years, at a great cost in lives, assisting allied aircrew escape and providing intelligence/ attacking key targets etc and the growing number of Free Frenchicon forces in Britainicon certainly made a good account of themselves when let lose on the Germans.

The issue in 1940 France, was one of poor leadership and slow reactions,Blitzkrieg took everyone by surprise...

To many in France, the thought of another war, only twenty years after 'the war to end all wars', with its massive French death toll, probably also coloured and slowed their response to a degree.