Mastermind of French Resistance speaks out

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AFP , DONZY, FRANCE
Monday, Aug 23, 2004,Page 6

Sixty years ago Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont was moving from safe-house to safe-house in German-occupied Paris, masterminding the popular insurrection that was to go down in national legend as the moment France won back its lost military honor.

On Aug. 25, 1944, he was there in the billiards-room of the Prefecture de Police when the capital's military governor Dietrich von Choltitz signed the surrender document, and he was on the half-track which then carried the humiliated general on a triumphant procession through the newly-liberated city.

A famous photograph shows the vehicle moving through ecstatic crowds on the its way to Montparnasse station. General Philippe Leclerc, commander of the French armored division that had just entered Paris, has his back to a bowed and dejected von Choltitz.

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[Dancing_Dave]

1. Sounds just like those freedom fighters in Iraq!

Really. The U.S. occupation is Nazi from their point of view.