The Sorrow and the Pity Page #3

These cars are stopped for a lack of gas.

The Jewish warmongers

and Parisian plutocrats,

with their suitcases full of gold

and precious stones, have fled.

This shortage of gas

put a crimp in their plans.

The streets were hopelessly blocked.

Yet these English-loving

traitors and deserters

continued their journey on foot.

These are the French people

who have been mercilessly evacuated

and dragged along in the flood

of the routed French army.

Soon, these people

will be able to go home.

The German people were spared

such a trial,

thanks to the Fhrer

and his German soldiers.

During that time,

there was an enormous upsurge

of the people,

who were completely panicked, terrified.

Fate willed that I should be given leave

in the last few days of the month April.

Consequently, I was in Paris in early May

when the Germans invaded.

On the roads, people were going mad,

terrified by the bombings.

With them, they brought what they could:

children, pets, precious objects...

Some rode on wagons, others on bicycles.

It was a mish-mash of everything

and everyone. It was awful to see.

It was all the more awful in that

the Germans, in an effort to block

and ruin the roads for the soldiers

didn't hesitate in bombing

these columns of refugees.

s a result, and I can attest to this fact,

that there were bodies strewn

all over the place: men, women, horses.

Car wrecks sprinkled the roads.

It was a scene from hell.

and yet this wave, this flood of people,

continued to move south.

Our impressions?

We saw destroyed villages, burned lands...

It did have a certain effect on us.

-and the people on the roads?

-They were fleeing the bad guys.

What do you mean?

Weren't you the bad guys?

t first, we were seen as the enemy

who was set to destroy the country.

Then they began to see

that we just wanted to help.

and that reassured them.

The officers or the staff

were clearly out of their depth.

Having the trains, the roads,

and all telecommunications cut off

Led to a situation in which

any plans the soldiers had made

were suddenly completely ruined.

In addition, certain military circles

shared the attitude of many civilians,

and tackled the war unenthusiastically.

After all, they were living in...

I'm not saying they were traitors.

In any case, there were very few traitors.

But this attitude

of preferring Hitler to Lon Blum

was an attitude that had become

very popular in bourgeois circles.

and this was a circle

to which many of the soldiers belonged.

THE GRET BTTLE OF FRNCE

On June 14, 1940,

the Germans occupied Paris.

In Clermont, the papers went mad.

Le Moniteur took a stand,

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