Topic: Liberation of Paris - finally fighting in the daylight
lagatta
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posted 21 August 2004 08:47 PM
This Guardian article spotlights a young woman partisane who turned 20 during the liberation of Paris. I have a friend a couple of years older who was also a résistant as a young man.
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Coyote
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posted 21 August 2004 09:56 PM
One of the easiest jokes in the world against the French is how everyone became a Maquis after the Liberation of France. As easy as that joke is, it is important to remember and salute those French people who sacrificed and risked so much to fight Nazi rule.
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skdadl
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posted 22 August 2004 09:18 AM
lagatta, my heart is racing after reading that.
I can never read those stories without asking myself all the way through, more and more urgently, could I do that? Could I? And myself keeps answering, Nooooooo!
posted 24 August 2004 07:02 PM
Le Monde has a fine dossier on the Liberation of Paris.
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lagatta
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posted 25 August 2004 11:19 PM
There was a big celebration in Paris today. I'll have to write to my friend to see if he went. Perhaps not - he is not fond of official celebrations. Like the young woman in the first article, the name of his maquis (from a work by Bach) and his nom de guerre were inspired by German culture. None of the chauvinistic crap for them!
Here is an article on how the recent racist attacks - remember that there have been racist attacks on Arab/Muslim targets as well as Jewish ones - are casting a sombre tone over the celebrations: http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1290890,00.html
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