Saturday, July 3, 2010

Code Name Christine Clouet: A Woman in the French Resistance

From p. 24:
"...Massive aerial bombardment of English cities began, in an attempt to break the morale of the civilian population. To everyone's surprise, Goering's enormous bombers were intercepted by nimble Spitfires, guided by a secret device, microwave radar, that we only learned about later. Unprecedented battles erupted in the sky; cities burned; German losses grew heavier; and Churchill's words expressed the anger and courage of the british people and their fierce pride at being the only country to stand up against Nazism."

From p. 26:
"...The armistice had partioned France into seven zones... They were:
#1 "Free Zone" (1940) in the south governed by Petain at Vichy. They in turn were governed by the Germans although there were no Germans in this zone until 1942 when the Allies invaded North Africa.
#2 "Occupied Zone" in the north, susposedly governed by Vichy but with Germans holding all the important offices. The demarcation line between zones one and two ran from Lake Geneva to the Spanish border cutting France in half."

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