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Paris Abandoned: The Realities of Armistice During World War II
Posted on October 12, 2017 4:16 pm 1 Commentby Anne Sebba
Slowly, the terms of the armistice began to sink in. The French had to pay for the 300,000-strong German Army of Occupation, amounting to twenty million Reichsmarks per day, paid at the artificial exchange rate. This was … Read the article

Cecile Rol-Tanguy: Fighting for the Liberation of Paris
Posted on October 21, 2016 1:49 pm Leave your thoughtsby Anne Sebba
On 6 June 1944 Allied forces began the long-awaited invasion of northern France. Operation Overlord, code-name for the Normandy landings, was the largest seaborne invasion in history. British, American and Canadian forces landed on a fifty-mile … Read the article