Of course.....in order to learn about history you don't have to read books, you just have to use "common sense"......and what?.....imagine what happened? My comment about the ECCS Treaty was ment to prove that France was never under German domination. Firstly, France didn't "have to" give money to Germany! France CHOSE to sign the Treaty ( a treaty created exclusively for economical purposes) and give the money to Germany. In order to sign the ECCS Treaty, France had to be an independent state (the first lines of the document states that the countries that have agreed to sign are sovereign) - which means it couldn't have been under German domination. Had France been under German domination, there would have been no need for a treaty - the Germans would have just taken what they needed. Also, it is common sense that, during war, a state uses the resources available in the territories they are dominating before using their own. So, had Germany taken over France, at the end of the war France would have been in an even worse condition than Germany. This, however, wasn't the case, since France had enough EXTRA money to lend their former enemy. Bottom of line: Germany did NOT take over France in the WWII.....Just because a country manages to take over a small part of one of their enemies' territories does NOT mean said enemy is under their domination.