European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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He didn’t like weapons, but I gave him one, telling him he needed it to defend himself.
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They found his FFI (Forces Françaises à l’Interieur – the French Forces inside the country which was the resistance) bracelet as well.
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His family never blamed me, but I always wonder if things would have happened differently, had I not given him a revolver.
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I am afraid so. It all had a big impact on me.
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I would have been there with them had we not decided that I would meet the comrades to get the mayor.
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That shows how thin the thread is life hangs on. Just a little bit of luck.
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Going in the underground; Activities
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One could be part of the resistance movement and have a normal occupation as well.
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I worked in the Simca factory.
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That was an Italian enterprise. The director, Mr.Picosi, was Italian.
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They produced cars before the war. During the occupation, we were forced to produce axels for tanks.
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We started sabotaging the machines during our work.
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In the beginning of 1943, Hitler had begun to lose some battles.
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He lost the battle of Stalingrad, the battle in Libya.
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He had to mobilize his entire male population, having occupied almost whole Europe.
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He had to keep his war machinery going.
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An agreement was signed between the French Pétain-Laval government
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and the German administration to create the so-called STO (Forced Labor).
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In the beginning, they tried it with propaganda, saying that one worker going to work in Germany would liberate ten Prisoners of War.
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That didn’t work well, as very few volunteered.
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