12-09-2021, 07:42 AM
(12-08-2021, 10:59 PM)Robert Wrote:...“The French police [under Pétain Wrote:dressed in civilian clothes, arrested my fellow resistance fighters and handed them over to the Gestapo, they weren’t exactly great Frenchmen.”... pid='5578' dateline='1638302170']
Despite having good intentions, neither were the Partisans. Partisanship and mercinarism breach international conventions of which only protect uniformed armies. Although their acts did serve to slow down the Germans a bit, the revenge taken on ordinary citizens because of these acts was disastrous and even came close to wiping Paris off the map.
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