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Created | Updated Nov 29, 2020
This story is, of course, fiction. However, there is no doubt that those who dared to resist Nazi Germany's occupation of France faced many risks. For example, see this notice from the D-Day museum.
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This can be translated as
'Every Frenchman who takes up arms against the German occupation forces or supports measures that weaken German defence places himself outside human rights law and will be treated without mercy as a partisan. The inhabitants of the country should understand clearly that terrorist groups of bandits turn any community that offers them lodging, food or intelligence into a battlefield and that they will suffer the consequences of civil war.
Every locality in which attacks on Germans occur, or in the vicinity of such attacks, must reckon with total destruction in the struggle.
Commander, Northeast France'
