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To: Homer_J_Simpson
October 26, 1943:


"Upwards of 20,000 Jews comprised partisan groups in the forests of Eastern Europe, most having escaped from nearby ghettos.
Partisans struggled to survive while planning surprise attacks with their limited arsenal of weapons."


"With hands raised high above their heads, suspected resisters are guarded by a revolver-toting member of the milice (French militia).
The militia operated as the police arm of the Vichy government and as undercover agents in pursuing the members of the Maquis, the French Resistance.
Numbering some 29,000 volunteers by fall 1943, the milice increasingly turned to assassination in its pursuit of power."



7 posted on 10/26/2013 8:44:00 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK

a S&W Victory .38, looks like. It must have sucked to be that Milicien in 1945


8 posted on 10/26/2013 2:56:11 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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