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To: Riley
"I’ve heard that it was amazing how the ranks of the Resistance swelled, after the war was over.

Indeed...made one wonder what that D-day fuss was all about.

Typical Parisian resistance cell. code name "Lucky Pierre"


21 posted on 08/10/2009 4:20:39 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

I’m not going to hammer the French too hard, they *did* have people who risked- and suffered- much under the German occupation. Of that, there is no doubt in my mind.

I’ve heard though that after the war, half the Frenchmen you’d meet in a pub somewhere were garroting German sentries on a nightly basis- if you can believe what they say. :-)


30 posted on 08/10/2009 4:37:55 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Covenantor
Wonderful French Phrase:
Tous le monde Maquis après la Guerre

After the war, everyone was in the underground.

303 posted on 03/14/2010 5:37:10 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Obama? Definitely eligible to be Prime Minister of the UK.)
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