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#1 The French were shocked by the speed of the German victory, and how young and healthy the troops looked. They were stunned by the fact that a nation whose military valour was epitomized by the battle of Verdun in the First World War and whose defences had been guaranteed by the supposedly impregnable Maginot line, had been reduced to a state of vassalage in just six weeks.
#2 The first signs of German behavior were reassuring. The French were told to respect property, and the Germans took control of the telephone exchange and the railways. The French were relieved, and handed in their weapons.
#3 The terms of the armistice, which were signed after 27 hours of negotiations in the clearing at Rethondes in the forest of Compiègne, were brutal. The German military defeat was signed at the end of the First World War in 1918, and France was now being divided up between them and the Italians.
#4 The Germans had been preparing for the occupation of France for quite some time. They had prepared a thousand railway officials to supervise the running of the trains, and they had prepared a group of twenty men to infiltrate and interrogate.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	12 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822507074
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The French were shocked by the speed of the German victory, and how young and healthy the troops looked. They were stunned by the fact that a nation whose military valour was epitomized by the battle of Verdun in the First World War and whose defences had been guaranteed by the supposedly impregnable Maginot line, had been reduced to a state of vassalage in just six weeks.

#2

The first signs of German behavior were reassuring. The French were told to respect property, and the Germans took control of the telephone exchange and the railways. The French were relieved, and handed in their weapons.

#3

The terms of the armistice, which were signed after 27 hours of negotiations in the clearing at Rethondes in the forest of Compiègne, were brutal. The German military defeat was signed at the end of the First World War in 1918, and France was now being divided up between them and the Italians.

#4

The Germans had been preparing for the occupation of France for quite some time. They had prepared a thousand railway officials to supervise the running of the trains, and they had prepared a group of twenty men to infiltrate and interrogate.

#5

The French police, who had initially been ordered to surrender their weapons to the Germans, were soon told to take them back. The German occupation was a step towards the domination, ruling, and exploitation of France.

#6

France had been the first country to emancipate and integrate its Jews as French citizens. But after the German invasion, posters were seen on Parisian walls with the words Our enemy is the Jew. Many foreigners remained in France, but they were now stateless, without protection and extremely vulnerable.

#7

The treatment of the political exiles caused little protest. The French were becoming resourceful. They began making ersatz food items out of wood and charcoal, and they crushed grape pips for oil.

#8

The French occupation of Germany was a miserable affair. The Germans were not allowed to learn about the outside world, and they were given a list of banned books that included anything written by a Jew, a communist, an Anglo-Saxon writer, or a Freemason.
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#1

The first acts of resistance were small, spontaneous and ill-coordinated, carried out by individuals acting out of personal feelings of rebellion and shame. The Free French’s Croix de Lorraine and Vs for victory were scribbled on to walls, on to blackout paper, on to German cars, in the métro and at bus stops.

#2

The Parti Communist Français, the PCF, was one of the first political groups to publish anti-Nazi pamphlets and papers. They had zigzagged through the tumultuous currents of French interwar years, from the Stalinists to a whole generation of youthful idealists.

#3

One of the young idealists who joined the French Resistance was Cécile Charua, who was born in Paris’s ceinture rouge, the red suburbs. To grow up French was to grow up communist, and if you did not fight injustice and xenophobia, there was no point to life at all.

#4

In 1935, Cécile became a party member. She liked the idea of enough bread for everyone, and she was impressed by the communists’ stance of support for the pact.

#5

The German occupation in June 1940 brought more confusion for Cécile. She felt physically sick watching the troops march into Paris, but she had a new goal: anti-Fascist, anti-Vichy, and anti-occupier. She began to help the communist resistance in Paris.

#6

Cécile was a communist, and she helped set up the Paris networks. She was also a courier between Paris and the south, and she frequently sat with Germans on the trains going south, confident that they would protect her at checkpoints.

#7

The PCF, the French Communist Party, grew rapidly during the phoney war, as the French waited for the Germans to arrive. They were able to rally the people and save France. But it was getting more dangerous all the time.

#8

The arrival of the Germans in Paris in 1940 caught the intellectuals unprepared. Some fled abroad, and some joined the exodus to the south. Others returned to occupied Paris. But while those on the far right quickly and pleasurably discovered a new popularity among the Nazis, those on the left were faced with the question of how they should react to occupation.

#9

In October 1940, students began to print anti-Vichy and anti-German flyers and distribute them around Paris. They were angry that their Jewish teachers had been declared intellectually feeble and undesirable in the first anti-Semitic edict.

#10

On the 11th of November, students gathered in front of the Collège de France to pay tribute to Langevin, a professor who had been arrested because of his anti-Nazi beliefs. The Germans opened fire on the students, wounding several. The university was closed.

#11

The French must be able to read and think French in France. The Politzer-Solomons newspaper L’Université Libre was created to promote this idea. Other young intellectuals were drawn into the fold, and plans were made to create other papers and magazines to keep de Gaulle’s flame of resistance alive.

#12

In 1932, Charlotte joined the PCF, and in 1939, she was assigned to handle the dealings between the Athenée theater and the Germans. She was not Jewish, but her cast of mind was defiant, independent, and humane.

#13

In Paris, the winter of 1940 was extremely cold, and food and clothing shortages became common. The French began to realize that the shortages were the result of the enormous booty of clothing, food, and raw materials leaving France every day for the Nazis.

#14

In the battle of words, the French right, supported and nurtured by Abetz, was coming into its own. The resisters were holding their own, despite the French police state emerging.

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