Way off topic, but it has do to with the French

Jay Honeck wrote:
All of
which has little to do with the topic, which was the Vichy government
and the vast majority of French who were content to wait it out.

Actually, apparently...
"Recent research by the historian Simon Kitson has shown that, in spite
of extensive State Collaboration, Vichy led an ultimately unsuccessful
campaign to preserve the sovereignty of this southern zone by arresting
German spies...."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France

Egad. First music radio's replaced by bellowing idiots who shout lessons
in propagandized Social Studies as if their listeners are morons, now
flying chat turns into WW2 history class. Why are all the sources of
fun turning into so much work?

"Stefan" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck schrieb:

Of course it never dawned upon you that the governement was not "the
French"? Ever heard of something like the Résistence?

Good grief, are you really so dim? It takes an awful lot of courage to do
what they did. I suspect the vast majority of those who enjoy dumb jokes
about "the French" wouldn't have that courage.

When my grandfather was shot down over Sampigny he went into a church and
gave the priest the cigarettes from his evasion kit to find him help. He
had flak buried in his skull.

When the Gestapo showed up a few hours later, they were smoking the
cigarettes my grandfather had given the priest. When they moved him to the
railroad to take him to Germany, his German captors pointed weapons at the
citizens who were trying to take a stab at him with a pitchforks. Not a
whole lot of love for the French in my grandfather's house.

Although the other waistgunner was kept hidden by a French family until the
end of the war and the pilot evaded with help from the Resistance, they
certainly weren't all so courageous.

-c

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
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I don't think

Obviously

Bertie