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...British First Army (which was still mopping up in the suburbs), pulled up as big as life at Nazi headquarters in the Majestic Hotel before the last Germans had cleared out. There weren't any Allied troops within three or four miles, but so many natives and Frenchmen turned out to cheer Lang and his friends that the Nazis inside scrammed out the back door to the garage and made their getaway after planting grenades in the motors of all the cars they were not using for their escape...
Cabbage for Frenchmen. The only unrationed foods in France are rutabagas, topinambous (Jerusalem artichokes) and cabbage. Rationing applies to restaurants as well as stores. The combined butter, fat and oil ration is about three and a half ounces a week a person (compared to eight ounces in Britain). For five precious coupons, a Frenchman supping at a restaurant is lucky to get watery soup, a dab of meat, an inch-square wafer of cheese. The French wine allowance is six liters (about six quarts) monthly a person...
...German Labor Commissioner Fritz Sauckel demanded the conscription of 150,000 Frenchmen to work on the Mittelmeerwall (Mediterranean Wall), the defensive fortifications which are supposed to extend from Spain to Alexandroupolis near the border of Turkey...
...Frenchmen in sweltering, graft-ridden French Guiana (home of Devil's Island) believed what they heard: General Charles de Gaulle of the Fighting French and General Henri Giraud in North Africa were uniting in the cause of French liberation. That was enough...
Last week Colonel le Bel arrived in French Guiana. Frenchmen and natives greeted him with cries of "Vive De Gaulle, Vive Giraud...