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Desiree Reads
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(June 11, 1940)
" I woke up at six o'clock in the morning and thought it was night. That was how dark it was. At first I thought there was a storm, but it wasn't thunder, it was the noise of guns, and the darkness was smoke, not fog."
— Sep 29, 2023 04:38PM
" I woke up at six o'clock in the morning and thought it was night. That was how dark it was. At first I thought there was a storm, but it wasn't thunder, it was the noise of guns, and the darkness was smoke, not fog."
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Desiree Reads
is on page 246 of 304
(June 16, 1940)
"The loud-speakers roar that the Maginot Line was broken through yesterday. Verdun taken. The Italians in Nice."
— Sep 30, 2023 09:56AM
"The loud-speakers roar that the Maginot Line was broken through yesterday. Verdun taken. The Italians in Nice."
Desiree Reads
is on page 239 of 304
"(O)ut of the plane climbed a German officer, who greeted a group of other German officers... 'Reporting for duty in German Paris!'"
— Sep 29, 2023 05:19PM
Desiree Reads
is on page 238 of 304
(June 14, 1940)
"Infantryman Bernard Groux... shot dead the commander of the first Nazi division that set foot on the soil of Paris...
"But Infantryman Bernard Groux, who would mot see a Nazi in Paris... will not be forgotten. When the shame grows unbearable, people will remember..."
— Sep 29, 2023 05:03PM
"Infantryman Bernard Groux... shot dead the commander of the first Nazi division that set foot on the soil of Paris...
"But Infantryman Bernard Groux, who would mot see a Nazi in Paris... will not be forgotten. When the shame grows unbearable, people will remember..."
Desiree Reads
is on page 233 of 304
(June 9, 1940)
"Radio report: the Nazis in Pontoise... 'Paris has been declared an open city.'"
— Sep 29, 2023 04:33PM
"Radio report: the Nazis in Pontoise... 'Paris has been declared an open city.'"
Desiree Reads
is on page 221 of 304
(May 18, 1940)
"Does it only seem do to me, or have the people of Paris turned pessimistic overnight?"
— Sep 29, 2023 04:16PM
"Does it only seem do to me, or have the people of Paris turned pessimistic overnight?"
Desiree Reads
is on page 178 of 304
April 26 (1939)
"We've been listening to Hitler's Reichstag speech... Perhaps only an Austrian can tell what a swindler the man is. Because only an Austrian can hear how he still talks typical Austrian dialect but tries frantically to hide it and change it into a North German accent."
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— Sep 29, 2023 03:00PM
"We've been listening to Hitler's Reichstag speech... Perhaps only an Austrian can tell what a swindler the man is. Because only an Austrian can hear how he still talks typical Austrian dialect but tries frantically to hide it and change it into a North German accent."
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Desiree Reads
is on page 126 of 304
"'It is no accident that music was born in Austria, because the Austrian landscape is music embodied in nature.'"
— Sep 29, 2023 01:41PM
Desiree Reads
is on page 62 of 304
"It was under him that the Maginot Line... had been built; the world possessed no more magnificent line of fortifications."
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— Sep 29, 2023 10:25AM
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