To: Riley
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Ive 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)
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.)
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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