Editing Pacifism (section)

=====France=====
Some scholars theorize that pacifism was the cause of France's rapid fall to the Germans after it was [[Invasion of France (Nazi Germany)|invaded]] by the Nazis in June 1940, resulting in a takeover of the government by the German military. Whether or not pacifism weakened French defenses against the Germans, there was no hope of sustaining a real pacifist movement after Paris fell. Just as peaceful Germans succumbed to violent nationalism, the pacifist French were muzzled by the totality of German control over nearly all of France.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hucker |first=D. |date=15 November 2007 |title=French public attitudes towards the prospect of war in 1938 1939: 'pacifism' or 'war anxiety'? |url=https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/preview/1017511/French%20Public%20Attitudes%20towards%20the%20Prospect%20of%20War%20in%201938-39.pdf |journal=French History |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=431–449 |doi=10.1093/fh/crm060}}</ref>

The French pacifists [[André and Magda Trocmé]] helped conceal hundreds of Jews fleeing the Nazis in the village of [[Le Chambon-sur-Lignon]].<ref name="pph">''Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There'' Philip P. Hallie, (1979)  New York: Harper & Row, {{ISBN|006011701X}}</ref><ref>Brock and Young, p. 220.</ref> After the war, the Trocmés were declared [[Righteous Among the Nations]].<ref name="pph" />