Seventy years ago in Bordeaux

Utter collapse, and great heroism.

The French government capitulates to the invading Nazis...

Meanwhile de Gaulle flees from Mérignac to London to fight on, a certain Portuguese consul, Aristide de Sousa Mendes, defies his government and writes visa after visa for those who fled, saving thousands of lives, and, Jean Moulin, another civil servant sets out on the road to resistance and death some years later in a railway carriage en route to prison camp.

Comments

pippinsmum said…
only 40 years ago? that would have been 1970 surely?
Alan said…
Good point.
Thought "Seventy", typed "Forty" !

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