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Berlin announced that thus far 71 Frenchmen had been executed. After German supply trains were dynamited last week, the Nazis shot 20 French hostages, mostly railway workmen, at Lille...
Adolf Hitler still retained an adequate bargaining point: 1,500,000 Frenchmen surrounded by his sentries and barbed wire. But not even the political genius of Hitler could guarantee that all of the 500,000 would not make trouble for him once they got home to their terror-ridden native land...
...with the France which made great Frenchmen of foreigners, and not with the one which made foreigners of great Frenchmen. . . . We are with England to the very end, to our last drop of blood, because that is the only fitting way to love France and to remain men of French culture...
...Luftwaffe did less harm to the soldiers' bodies than to their brains. Like flying tanks, the Arrado planes, cruising so insolently low, observing every confused movement of French troops and of artillery, added to the Frenchmen's sense of German omnipotence and omniscience. "It was not a war, but a hunt." Habe's captain lost his head, ordered his men into a glade which was just right "for a solitary pair of lovers and not for two companies of infantry." Once the men were nicely crowded there, their heads buried in the damp, rich ground, the German...
Death also came to a Nazi colonel, stabbed in the Paris subway. Hereafter, by order of enraged Lieut. General Ernst von Schaumburg, commander of the German Paris garrison, similar violence will be paid for by the lives of Frenchmen arrested by or for the occupying authorities "in a number corresponding to the gravity of the act." Already the Nazis have 150,000 French locked up to choose from. And within 24 hours General von Schaumburg had been challenged to make his choice...