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...four thousand executions of Resistance fighters, not to mention the deportation of close to eight thousand Jews, shipped away to certain death in the Eastern European concentration camps. But Barbie's most infamous achievement was the 1943 arrest, torture and murder of the daring underground guerilla a leader, Jean Moulin. That outrage above all others came to symbolize the Nazi brand of terror, as Moulin emerged from his last harrowing session with Barbie, an eyewitness recalled that "he had been beaten terribly, he was all bruises, a leg was sort of trailing behind him. He had been very neatly destroyed...
...Moulin's compatriots, of course, eventually triumphed in 1944 and Barbie, along with most occupation officers, was interned by the U.S. Army on war crime charges. What happened after that remains somewhat controversial to this day. According to France's renowned war criminal experts, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, American intelligence agents secretly recruited Barbie to conduct spying missions in eastern Germany immediately following Hitler's defeat. Barbie supposedly helped gather information on Soviet troop positions as well as on the whereabouts of other Gestapo fugitives wanted by Allied authorities; in return he was given a false identity, a home...
Queen Elizabeth II, a veteran of inspection tours, reviewed troupe from the cancan line of Paris' Moulin Rouge backstage after the annual Royal Variety Performance at London's Theater Royal, Drury Lane. One of the sketches must have sounded like dinner-table talk to Her Majesty. The skit featured Actor Mike Yarwood and Actress Suzanne Danielle as Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, fretting over the arrival of their future heir. While Danielle knitted, Yarwood brooded over a list of possible princely names, then said wistfully: "I want my children to have the little things that...
Once he graduates, the high-level functionary enters a separate social world. He will have his own preferred clubs (Polo de Bagatelle, Racing Club de France, Cercle Interallié) and discussion groups. One of the latter that is likely to rise in popularity is the moderate leftist Club Jean Moulin, named for France's great hero of the Resistance, a kind of open forum for discussion of advanced political ideas...
...strings" effects and recorded the waltz Charmaine. The recording, monomaniacally promoted by a Cleveland disc jockey, triggered a Mantovani craze that turned his American concerts into sellout affairs and seven albums into gold (more than half a million of each were sold). Said the purveyor of Greensleeves, Misty and Moulin Rouge: "Perhaps 25% of the people like the classics, and about 25% like the Beatles. I aim to please the 50% in the middle...