Let's see what happens to the "wise" French
On August 19, 1944, after learning that the Allies had successfully landed in Normandy, the French anti-Nazi organization Resistance Force was carefully prepared to hold an uprising in Paris, and engaged in street battles with the Germans in the streets of Paris. On the same day, the leader of free France, General de Gaulle, persuaded the Allied command to provide support, and the 2nd Panzer Division of Free France attacked Paris.
On August 24, the Free French 2nd Panzer Division briefly exchanged fire with the German defenders, and the next day, the German general Dietrich von Koltitz, who was deeply influenced by France, did not carry out Hitler's order to destroy the city and fight to the death, and handed over 17,000 Wehrmacht and Paris to the Allies in peace, perfectly practicing the rhetoric that "no one after Napoleon can occupy Paris before France surrenders", even the Germans were no exception.
Curtitz was called the "Savior of Paris" for not carrying out Hitler's order to destroy him, but the vichy French officials and Nazi collaborators in the city of Paris ushered in the end, and round after round of fierce reckoning awaited them.
Philippe Pétain: Vichy French Fuehrer, French national hero of World War I, "Savior of Versailles", sentenced to death in April 1945 for treason. It was only because the leader of Free France, Charles de Gaulle, who served under him, was pardoned to life imprisonment, and stripped of all honors, that he is still regarded as a traitor by the French.
Pierre Reivar, a lawyer-turned-politician, was so critical of Mussolini's appeasement before World War II that he was forced to resign. He later served twice as Prime Minister in the Vese regime, and was sentenced to death on 4 October 1945 for treason, which was executed on 15 October.
In the existing records, before and after the liberation of Paris alone, France sentenced 6,763 cases of death under the condition of an unsound judiciary, scaring de Gaulle into a hurry, or his new government could face the dilemma of no one available. Nevertheless, more than 10,000 people were killed between 1945 and 1952, all "wise" Frenchmen who are still known as traitors to this day.
Nonsense about surrender
In fact, the understanding of the matter of surrender in the East and the West is not the same, and surrender is an extremely humiliating thing in the East, especially in the Chinese cultural circles, and even if there is conditional surrender, it is often despised, which is about the place where the Qing Dynasty is often criticized.
In Western culture, unconditional surrender is also extremely humiliating, unless all reasonable means of resistance have been exhausted and death is determined to be the only option, which is fully reflected in the Code of American Combatants, and even after becoming a prisoner of war, there is a need to resist and organize an escape.
Explaining clearly the views of various cultural concepts on surrender, we can look at the surrender of France in World War II, it is obvious that neither the Thinking of the East nor the West is in line, they chose to surrender when they had full war potential and huge overseas colonies, and they made a lot of army materials and industrial materials cheaper than the Nazis.
And you think they're not guilty? Vichy France, as a Nazi vassal, sent troops to fight the Soviet Union, and did all the things to kill Jews, and was despised. In fact, Roosevelt looked down on de Gaulle and even the French during the war, and even many of the Nazi generals looked down on them.
To sum up, France's surrender at that time was by no means a "wise" move, the same was surrender, Li Ling was more sympathetic to posterity, while Lü Bu became a family slave with three surnames, why?