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...Frenchmen and for all of us now-HONOR is the only thing we find real anymore. The English call it "duty," Americans probably say "It's tough, but let's do it." But the word "honor" is so much better...
...British approach tactic was new. There was no formation. The 94 pilots flew so low through 300 miles of mist to Le Creusot that they saw Frenchmen waving. A sergeant pilot described the flight: "As we all took the hedges it was like the Grand National except that there were no falls. It was like flying over England, only more beautiful. People on the ground seemed stunned by the great flock of Lancasters and the noise. We saw no fighters on the way, but a duck came through the windshield with a wallop. My front gunner's turret...
Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain tried to keep up the illusion that there was food in France. Frenchmen knew that French food, like French heavy industry and French labor, was being transferred to Germany. Hitler was following Machiavelli's preachment: "He who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty. . . ." In France last week the sound of the watchword was growing louder...
...French war prisoners ground into the Gare du Nord last week, bringing a stench of decaying, living flesh to Paris. Six trainloads of healthy French flesh on the hoof left France for Germany. Pierre Laval's plan of exchanging three French workers for one war prisoner was functioning. Frenchmen had become domestic animals, weighed and traded and shipped...
...muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn." French workers were promised good wages in Germany. Their families in France received compensation from the French Government: six million francs a day for the 150,000 workers designated to make up the first contingent. War-risk insurance for these Frenchmen in Germany was also paid by Vichy. French taxpayers were not only footing the bill for German soldiers policing France, but were helping to pay Frenchmen for working German industries...