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...right). The French ships, still at anchor when the bombardment began, were lined up for the slaughter. Those with steam up, hastily got under way. Taken from the upper works of a tall ship (probably the Dunkerque) the picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already been hit by a salvo. A few moments later (upper left) the Strasbourg has got away, and over...
...time night fell, British marksmanship had done a deadly job. Besides the Bretagne, by British accounts, the Provence and two destroyers were sunk by mines and gunfire as they attempted to get away. The Strasbourg, muffled in smoke screens laid down around her, limped out to sea damaged by a torpedo, accompanied by five cruisers and several destroyers. Next day British bombers came over, sank the Teste and damaged the Dunkerque which was beached...
Last week, moving into Strasbourg with a crew of experienced pacifiers, he immediately set the machinery of re-Germanization in motion. German became the official language, German postage stamps were introduced, a customs union with the Reich was established, the picturesque Esplanade in Metz became Platz des Führers, Mulhouse's Neuquartierplatz became Reichsmarschal Göring-Platz, posters went up depicting a gentle Nazi caressing a forsaken Alsatian child...
Commissioner Wagner pledged the "resolute liquidation" of "racial and national" aliens in Alsace. Biggest job facing the pacifiers was to repopulate empty Strasbourg, nine-tenths of whose 200,000 inhabitants had still not returned. The French part of the refugee population, it was announced, would not be permitted to re-enter Alsace...
...below Oran's quake-shattered Kasbah. It was put down in the hulk of the Dunkerque, France's answer to Germany's pocket battleships, now beached and battered by British bombs on the Barbary coast. It was repeated in the draggle-tailed flight of the crippled Strasbourg to Toulon, in the smashed hulks of four other men-of-war, in the sullen disarmament of the French squadron under British guns in Alexandria's harbor. France's last line had crumbled...