Hitting and running

Eugen Weber

  • In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944 by H.R. Kedward
    Oxford, 342 pp, £35.00, March 1993, ISBN 0 19 821031 0
  • Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac, translated by Konrad Bieber and Betsy Wing
    Nebraska, 235 pp, $25.00, June 1993, ISBN 0 8032 1029 9

After the Second World War was over, 220,000 cards were distributed among French citizens to attest that their bearers had been Voluntary Resistance Fighters. Yet André Malraux, talking to Sanche de Gramont in 1970, asserted that ‘we’ Resistants were 17,000, while ‘they’ – French members of the Waffen SS – were 40,000. That begs a question to which I know no answer, though Malraux’s own story may provide some clues.

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