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...that area had been wasted, that three out of four flopped in France without even reaching the Channel. No less than 26, he said, had exploded on one 40-acre French farm. Many firing crews were said to have been injured or killed at the launching installations. At Arras, Frenchmen said they had been offered 1,000 francs a day to help with the dangerous firing...
Back in the camp we saw a room full of passports and documents. Papers of Frenchmen, Russians, Greeks, Czechs, Jews, Italians, Belo-Russians, Serbs, Poles. Records left behind by some of the 1,500,000 of 22 nationalities who were brought to Maidenek...
...last week, while delirious Frenchmen danced and kissed, Germans stared stolidly into blackness and even Britons wondered. For as the war's fifth birthday came round, the British, like the Germans, were tired. Buzz-bombs were worse than the blitz. And Britons worried over the look of the world to come. For Poland, even victory would mean a national tragedy. For France, it was a vast questionmark. Ever since the blitz failed the British had known that victory would one day be theirs, as the Germans after Stalingrad and North Africa had glimpsed the spectre of defeat. And they...
...Frenchmen! At the moment you read this message, I am no longer free. Although I could not be your sword, I tried at least to be your shield. My words and my acts have surprised you occasionally. But you may now know that they hurt me more than they hurt...
...Facts which might arouse the nation to its peril were stifled. But anything which could turn Frenchmen against Russia, against the 'Marxists,' against England herself, and also make them look favorably upon the dictators, was hammered home. ... In February 1936 the Führer, through the channel of Bertrand de Jouvenel, was given the opportunity to explain his policy to the readers of Jean Prouvost's Paris Midi. The military reoccupation of the Rhineland was to follow within a few days: as far as propa ganda could go, it was a remarkable performance...