2nd February 2012
Penrhos school girls skating on the frozen Canal Pond during their occupation of Chatsworth House in the Second World War.
1st February 2012
"Ma ho visto i morti sconosciuti, i morti repubblicani. Sono questi che mi hanno svegliato. Se un ignoto, un nemico, diventa morendo una cosa simile, se ci si arresta e si ha paura a scavalcarlo, vuol dire che anche vinto il nemico è qualcuno, che dopo averne sparso il sangue bisogna placarlo, dare una voce a questo sangue, giustificarne chi l’ha sparso. Guardare certi morti è umiliante. Non sono più faccenda altrui; non ci si sente capitati sul posto per caso. Si ha l’impressione che lo stesso destino che ha messo a terra quei corpi, tenga noialtri inchiodati a vederli, a riempircene gli occhi. Non è paura, non è la solita viltà. Ci si sente umiliati perché si capisce - si tocca con gli occhi - che al posto del morto potremmo essere noi: non ci sarebbe differenza, e se viviamo lo dobbiamo al cadavere imbrattato. Per questo ogni guerra è una guerra civile: ogni caduto somiglia a chi resta, e gliene chiede ragione."— Cesare Pavese, La casa in collina, 1948
30th January 2012
Et si, plus de 60 ans après, la phrase d’Arletty résumait l’esprit des françaises en général : « Si mon cœur est français, mon cul, lui, est international ! » ?
from Patrick Buisson, 1940-1945, Années érotiques. L’Occupation intime (via jesuisperdu)
(via licoricenymph)
23rd November 2011
Anny-Yolande Horowitz
Born on June 2, 1933 in Strasbourg. Last lived at 21, rue Rode, Bordeaux. Interned in the Lalande camp near Tours and then transferred to Drancy. From there, she, her mother Frieda, and her sister Paulette, age 7, were deported on Sept. 11, 1942 on Convoy 31. Their destination: Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This photo is from “French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial” by Serge Klarsfeld.
14th July 2011
Members of the White Rose, Munich 1942. From left: Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst.
The White Rose (German: die Weiße Rose) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of a number of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to German dictator Adolf Hitler’s regime.
The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo and executed by beheading in 1943. The text of their sixth leaflet was smuggled out of Germany through Scandinavia to the UK, and in July 1943 copies of it were dropped over Germany by Allied planes, retitled “The Manifesto of the Students of Munich.”
Today, the members of the White Rose are honoured in Germany as amongst its greatest heroes, since they opposed the Third Reich in the face of almost certain death.
(Source: Wikipedia)
26th June 2011
Three members of the Netherlands Interior Forces hold a group of collaborators (among them a woman, or a man dressed as a woman) at gunpoint; May 1945
