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...life of French resistance heroine Lucie Aubrac was the stuff of action novels. With her husband Raymond, who survives her, she founded Liberation Sud, one of the first networks set up by the Resistance, which sought to foil the Nazis during World War II. Before the couple was able to flee to London in 1944, Lucie engineered several of Raymond's escapes from prison--once by smuggling him a virus that enabled him to wriggle away en route to a hospital. The subject of the 1997 hit film Lucie Aubrac, she was given France's highest award, the Legion...
They sang that in Paris too. And the Marseillaise. And they danced in the streets. "We waltzed in the Place de la Bastille," says Lucie Aubrac, who was 32 then, "and the noise of the wooden shoes on the cob blestones was very pretty. They were playing accordions, and there were Chinese lanterns. There were also church bells. It was a happy sound. It was marvelous. Oh, we drank. We drank a lot. Everybody was kissing. There was such a feeling...
...Fourth sector at Lyon after serving in the Hitler Youth and the S.S. Upon his arrival in France, Barbie assembled the tools of his trade-whips, clubs and two-by-fours-and set about earning the nickname that would follow him throughout his life-the Butcher of Lyon, Raymond Aubrac, a resistance member captured during the war, remembers that "it was not sophisticated torture, just brutal...there was nothing intellectual about his methods. He just asked the same questions over and over again...
Landau's best tidbit, maybe. "Major disclosure." no. Details of the Kissinger-Marcovitch-Aubrac contact chain between Washington and Hanoi were reported by David Kraslow (N.F. '61-2) and Stuart Loory in a syndicated newspaper series in the spring of 1968. The Harvard Bulletin carried the story in its issue of April 27. 1968. John T. Bethell Editor, Harvard Bulletin (Although reports of the existence of the Marcovitchaubrac mission were published earlier, Landau was the first journalist to uncover the details of the affair...
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