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D-Day Anniversary Live Commemorations
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In some circumstances no, not really. What about the honeytraps that the English used?
Plenty of women, French or otherwise slept with the 'enemy' to stay alive, feed their family, umpteen reasons, who are we to judge? |
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nothing glorious about war,but many had no choice either side
It's the fcukwits @t the top with power who send us their |
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http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2014/06/06/the-longest-daythis-is-d-day-143-hq-photos/ good pics, from the us angle though. Still show it . |
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I am not judging any of the women.
Merely saying that when France was "occupied" that the lives of most people went on as normal. So I'd find it hard to believe that many of the French women sleeping with the Wehrmacht were doing so to "stay alive" |
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27m Russians paid the ultimate price in WW11 but this fred is about the heroics of the Normandy landings and sacrifices many of our own paid .We owe them all .
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Fred: you or i, cannot make that judgement, we weren't there. I'd find it even harder to believe that the majority of French women were collaborators..
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http://thechive.com/2014/06/06/our-grandfather-and-his-journey-to-the-beaches-at-normandy-55-hq-photos/  |
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Well it depends, do you consider happily going along with your life and doing nothing collaboration or not? I would definitely say yes, you are not making any stance or objection to your situation and happily going along with it. There seems to be very little in the way of disgruntlement in the general French population to their "plight" during that time in the articles I have read.
Obviously after the war it was a different story, just as in Germany straight after the war you'd find it hard to find anyone admitting to ever having voted for Hitler. Less than 1% of the French population put up any resistance of note. |
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ever wondered why most of these vets have only come back for the first time today !!??
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No, is my answer to your question. Collaboration with the enemy, by helping said enemy within ones own country, is treason.
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coz they cannot afford it
fkers were ditched by the political classes just fn cannon fodder you all need to grow up |
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Has there been a mention of Bill Millin, "The mad piper" yet? Truly amazing story.
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