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To: snoringbear
The Germans would go into a Greek village demanding names and locations of Greek partisans. When, the Greeks refused to talk the Germans would line up the whole village and execute them.

France had a resistance movement. I don't recall Germans doing anything similar in France.

13 posted on 01/06/2015 7:06:59 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei


“France had a resistance movement. I don’t recall Germans doing anything similar in France.”

Well, the French are - well, the French. Very practical people. While the French did indeed have an underground and partisan movement, unlike the Greeks the country was not solidly against the Germans. As you probably know, there was the pro Nazi Vinchy government that ruled France for most of the war. Churchill had to sink their Mediterranean fleet because it refused to fight on the Allied side. Just prior to the first beachhead by American troops in North Africa we had to negotiate with the French Commander whether they were for us or against us. Then, there’s DeGaulle, don’t get me started on him...


16 posted on 01/06/2015 8:04:50 AM PST by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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