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![]() "Stefan" wrote in message ... 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 |
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