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> Did what he had to do. I enjoyed Paris at War: 1939-1944, by David Drake, for its description of every-day living in Paris during the occupation. This parag
by mncharity 8y ago
> Did what he had to do.
I enjoyed Paris at War: 1939-1944, by David Drake, for its description of every-day living in Paris during the occupation. This paragraph[1] suggests an alternate view exists.
Meta observation: So much information is lost when collapsing the complexity of a person, government, subcultures, and historical movements, down to one-liners, and thence to a 'bad guy? or not?' judgment, that it's not clear to me the resulting signal is useful.
[1] p365, 2nd paragraph "Patain had a very different reception in the former Unoccupied Zone. [...]": https://books.google.com/books?id=LCxUCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA365#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=LCxUCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...