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Julé Cunningham · @JD_Cunningham
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Like its author this memoir is a quiet survivor--after disappearing from sight when first published in 1945 'A Bookshop in Berlin' by Françoise Frenkel was rediscovered in a charity sale in Nice in 2010 and tells of her life opening a French language bookshop in Berlin shortly after WWI, fleeing to Paris in 1939, and time in Southern France evading the Vichy gendarmes and Germans. It has a searing immediacy though told with restraint making it all the more affecting.

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#bookreview #reading #witmonth #vichyfrance #memoir

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Daniel Jonah Wolpert · @djw
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#geraldineschwarz #deutschlandfunk #Dlf #erinnergungsarbeit #vichyfrance #mitlauefer #NAziGermany

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Rhombus Ticks · @rticks
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#stopcopcity #copcity #occupywallstreet #occupyatlanta #windowfuckers #poetry #domesticterrrosim #vichyfrance

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Dame B · @Boolysteed
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#vichyfrance #collaborators #ShaveTheirHeads

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Russell Phillips · @RPBook
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in 1942 on , a representative of the governor arrived at Allied HQ to ask for surrender terms. Despite the very weak position, he argued and negotiated for hours.

As soon as he noticed the time was after midnight, he stopped arguing and signed the surrender. The delay meant that the campaign had lasted six months. Consequently, the French servicemen were entitled to a campaign medal and a pension.

#wwii #secondworldwar #militaryhistory #french #vichyfrance #madagascar #onthisday

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