Word: frenchmen
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They were Poles, Austrians, Czechs, Belgians, Rumanians, Frenchmen, Italians, Swiss and Russians who had sailed from France last January, bound for Brazil. Because most of them were what the Nazis call Jews, Nazi Europe wanted no more of them. Still, they were luckier than others. They had had the money and the good fortune to get Brazilian visas, steamship passage and Vichy's permission to leave...
...Germany should be reduced to that agricultural economy which she will impose on conquered Europe if she can. This would mean a reduced standard of living, and I doubt not a reduction in the German population. Since there are only 45 million Britons, 45 million Italians, 40 million Frenchmen and 30 million Poles, as opposed to 80 million Germans, the equilibrium of Europe would be more stable if there were only 50 million Germans...
Unable to display their feelings openly, Frenchmen prepared in gardens and cellars...
...morning of Armistice Day, Colmar, Alsace, beheld a strange parade. Hundreds of snails crept through the streets. They were smeared under the wheels of traffic; they squished under the boots of Nazi troops, who finally pressed snickering Frenchmen into service as street cleaners. Across the shell of every snail was painted the red, white & blue of the Tricolor...
...they reflected on the dreary span of French history arched by their lives, they knew themselves prejudged. Trial proceedings, it was announced, would be published only as they touched on France's unpreparedness for war. Discussion of the origins of the war would be strictly secret. Thus Frenchmen would be told only that they were summoned to die almost weaponless by the leaders who were on trial. Frenchmen would learn nothing of the forces that compelled these old men to lead a weak, ailing nation to doom...