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...along a side wall (those who still struggled on the hooks were stunned with wooden mallets); 4) carted to the furnaces, 18 at a time, by incineration crews. The cremation capacity was 400 per ten-hour day. ¶ Sergeant William Sandier, a U.S. prisoner of war, saw three young Frenchwomen flogged to death at his camp near Chemnitz. SS guards thought the women, slave workers in the camp, were becoming too friendly with the Americans. One morning 250 prisoners were assembled on the prison ground. The three women were lined up before them and stripped. 55 men then lashed them...
...first Frenchwomen also came home last week from the prisons of Germany. There were about 200 of them, prematurely aged, pitifully thin and tattered, some on stretchers, some barely able to walk. Charles de Gaulle greeted them. All Paris honored them with tears, tossed lilacs and lilies of the valley at their feet. Most of them were wives and daughters of executed resistance leaders...
...French] Academy of Medicine, has received a decree that all Frenchwomen leaving to work in Germany must have a complete gynecological examination. . . . The Academy opposed the principle of an examination which would place these workers on a level with ordinary prostitutes...
...century, did not make Eugenie a happy woman. So, like many another disenchanted housewife, Eugenie went in for good works with her sleeves up. She was a tremendously energetic, genuinely intrepid woman, and her conduct during a cholera epidemic endeared her to the public. And at a time when Frenchwomen were 80% illiterate, she did work of permanent value for the education...
Though Vichy might not go to war for Adolf Hitler, it did the next best thing for him. Last week it passed sweeping new laws obliging all Frenchmen between 18 and 50 and all unmarried Frenchwomen between 20 and 35 to work at any job the Government might name. This wording fooled nobody. Germany desperately needs workers. Last June Hitler had offered the release of 1,500,000 French war prisoners as bait to French labor. But only a few thousand workers had been willing to cross into Germany. Now Hitler had forced Vichy to force Frenchmen to cross...