Word: souillac
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...reprisal for an attack on a German garrison by the Resistance, Nazi troops marched scores of Frenchmen to the Place de Souillac in the southwestern town of Tulle. From every tree in and around the little square, from every balcony and lamppost hung a rope with a ready noose; next to each stood two ladders and two waiting SS men. As each victim mounted one ladder, one of the Germans climbed the other, placed a noose around the Frenchman's neck, and pulled it tight. Then the other SS man yanked away the victim's ladder...
Deputy Prince Joachim Murat, a descendant of one Joachim Murat, King of Naples and Napoleon's "playmate," was set upon by "hoodlums" who obviously did not like him. The Prince was kicked, scratched, poked, spat upon and hurled from the platform from which he was speaking at Souillac, Communist stronghold, home of the notorious Louis Malvy...
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