woolybanana Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 On 2nd August 1941, Louis Berrier was executed by the Germans. A Guernsey man, his crime was using his pigeons to send messages to England. What a waste of a life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard51 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Have you been to Pierrefitte-en-Beauvaisis by any chance. Is there a connection with you.http://maitron-fusilles-40-44.univ-paris1.fr/spip.php?article158255Quite a few others lost their lives on that and surrounding days/years too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Our villages and roads have many memorials, large and small, public and private, remembering people who were shot on the roadside, in a woodland clearing, or outside prisons, for resisting the occupation agreed to by their rulers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betise Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 We have the same here nomoss, and some of the stories behind them are heartbreaking. But there were also two collaborators that were taken out and shot after the liberation, people that had profited by reporting resistance fighters and Jews. One of them was hauled in a cart to the square in front of the church so that everyone would see and know. Which was apt, as he was the verger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 And today, 4th August, a 15-year old Dutch girl and her family were carted off to Auschwitz after hiding in a room behind a cupboard for over 2 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 These two, on the slopes of the Montagne Noire, should be remembered today[url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://i.postimg.cc/fyB9qtkW/Monument-nr-Lespinassiere-crop.jpg[/img][/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Down here they kill each other for less...https://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2019/08/01/un-homme-tue-par-balles-a-beziers-pour-une-place-de-parking_1743279 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith-aka-Judith Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Yes, I saw that on too, NormanH, and thought, what is society doing to itself, if a parking place is more important than someone's life. And though in a totally different league, on the UK news, yesterday, a mother who killed her two young daughters because they got in the way of her sex life. It beggars belief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Here is link to some more information on the monument I mentioned above.Nice that they have added their names since we were there.[url]http://www.memorialgenweb.org/memorial3/html/fr/resultcommune.php?idsource=67898[/url]You have to click a link at the top to prove you're not a robot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard51 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 If we had the same space/effort allocated to all the people who have died then there probably would not be sufficient space to enable the world population to live.Every life is precious. Lets spread out the misery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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