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Old 18th Nov 2017, 10:26
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Wander00
 
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There re not words enough to acknowledge the courage of resisters and those who helped escapers. The legacy lingers: in a village near here there are still two "camps" - those who resisted and those who did not resist enough. SWMBO has a friend who knows an elderly lady locally who as a 12 year old was on her way to a meeting of a resistance group in the Mervent Forest near here. The lass got a puncture in her bike tyre and so was going to be late at the RV. Minutes later she heard gunfire. All those who were at RV had been killed by the Germans. There is memorial at the spot which is most moving
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