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A 3 page summation and analysis of Lucie Aubrac first-person account of her role in fighting the Nazi occupation of France as a member of the French Resistance. No additional sources cited.
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this paper properly! From 1942 to 1944, Lucie Aubrac did not dare keep a diary of her activities as this could have implicated herself and her husband as member
of the French Resistance, who were fighting the Nazi occupation of France. In 1984, the trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie instigated new interest in the French Resistance, Aubrac
decided to write the diary that she might have kept during those years. In so doing, she offers an eyewitness account of a French womans role in fighting the Nazis,
as well as information about the infamous Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon." Aubrac was a well-regarded history teacher when the Nazi!s invaded France. She and her Jewish husband, Raymond,
an engineer, decided to remain in France despite the obvious dangers of the Nazi occupation and the Vichy collaboration in rounding up French Jews for deportation. Instead of leaving, the
Aubracs joined the Resistance, and Raymond soon became the second in command of their group, the "Liberation Sud." Raymond was captured after a colleague broke under torture during interrogation.
He was jailed, severely tortured and sentenced to death. Lucie tells how she, with the aid of others in the Resistance, organized daring rescues of Raymond and other fighters. Among
those that Lucie also rescued was Jean Moulin, General De Gaulles representative in France, as well as founder and chairman of the National Resistance Council. She made courier runs, diverted
the Gestapo so that other members of the Resistance could carry out their missions and managed to conducted herself with a degree of dignity that confounded Klaus! Barbie himself when
he interrogated her prior to her visiting her husband while using an assumed name. She posed as the "fianc?e" of her husbands alias, Claude Ermelin, in order to discern the
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