Chapter 913: Reckoning

It was Antoine who came.

Because he didn't fully trust Antoine, Qin Chuan kept taking him with him on the march with the team.

Annette first stepped forward to hug Antoine happily, and after reacting, she hurriedly looked at Antoine, and asked a little nervously: "Are you okay, Antoine?" They didn't do anything to you! ”

"I'm fine, Annette!" Antoine replied, then raised his head towards Qin Chuan and said, "Although I don't want to say that, but ...... He saved me again! ”

Annette turned her head and glanced at Qin Chuan gratefully, then she was still a little uneasy, and asked Antoine in a low voice: "Are you arrested?" What are they going to do with you? ”

"Don't worry, Annette!" Antoine replied: "Your sergeant convinced me!" ”

Annette asked incredulously, "You mean ......?"

"Yes!" Antoine nodded: "I'm going to join you, but only intended!" ”

"What do you mean?" Annette was a little confused.

"It means ......" Qin Chuan added: "Let's see what happens to France next, and more precisely, what can be done to make France truly free!" Antoine is a man who values the country, Annette, you know this! ”

Annette nodded, then said, "I think we should talk to Baudouin!" ”

At the headquarters of the French regiment, Qin Chuan once again saw his old subordinates.

Baudouin sighed when he saw Qin Chuan.

"Seems to have been right, Lieutenant Colonel!" "The situation in France is not what we imagined! ”

"What information did you get?" Qin Chuan asked.

Perhaps because it was none of their business, Qin Chuan and the others did not get relevant information.

"On the second day of his entry into Paris, de Gaulle summoned a meeting of the officers of the Resistance and the partisans!" Baudouin handed Qin Chuan and the others a cup of coffee, and then said: "They thought that de Gaulle would reward them for their merits, but the truth is exactly the opposite!" ”

"What do you mean?" Antoine asked, confused.

Antoine, as a member of the partisans, was of course more concerned about this issue.

"After the people arrived, de Gaulle never showed up!" Baudouin said: "De Gaulle did not show up until an hour after the agreed meeting time. He asked the resistance and guerrilla officers about their pre-war occupations, and some of them, you know, were teachers, some were workers, and of course some were soldiers. While everyone was happily discussing their origins, de Gaulle told them...... Return to your pre-war post and continue your work! ”

"Return to your pre-war post and continue working?" Antoine looked at Baudouin in disbelief: "No, what you said is not true. If so, what are these officers doing? They risked their lives to usher in the liberation of France, and what they got was to return to their pre-war posts and continue to work? And at this time France had not yet been liberated! ”

"De Gaul's reasoning was ......," Baudouin said, "that the Allies and 'Fighting France' would complete the liberation of France." He believed that the French Resistance and the partisans had done their duty and that it was time to rebuild France. France needs more talent to develop all walks of life. And the strength of the resistance and the guerrillas will be incorporated into the army of 'Fighting France'! ”

"This is crossing the river and demolishing the bridge!" Antoine said angrily: "They have used the guerrillas and the resistance, and they will kick them aside!" ”

In terms of feelings, what Antoine said does make sense.

However, from a political and military point of view, Qin Chuan believed that de Gaulle was doing the right thing, because only in this way could all the troops be organized into a unified force, and there would be no "cliques and personal interests" or even civil war.

To put it simply, it is the French version of "a glass of wine to release military power".

"Is that how the Resistance compromises?" Antoine asked.

"Of course not!" Baudouin replied: "But they have nothing to do, because the armies of the British and Americans have taken control of all of Paris!" That is, it is not us who actually control France, but the British and Americans! ”

"Fuck it!" Antoine angrily sat back in his chair.

"It's not even worse!" Baudouin continued: "They began the reckoning! ”

"What reckoning?" Antoine asked.

"You know, Antoine!" Annette said, "People like us, I told you a long time ago!" ”

Antoine was stunned for a moment, a little incredulous.

"Don't doubt it!" "They took people who had helped the Germans in prison, some of them took out to march and attacked them with eggs, tomatoes and bags of feces," Baudouin said. The woman was handed off her hair, naked, with an anti-swastika on her chest and a sign around her neck that read, 'I sleep with the Germans,'......"

Annette couldn't help but scold: "These bitches raised them!" ”

"Not even the shops are immune!" "Because they're 'suppliers to the Germans'!" Baudouin said! ”

"No, it can't be true!" Antoine shook his head.

Baudouin didn't say anything, he took out a few newspapers from the file and handed them to Antoine, saying: "This is Le Figaro, which has not been published for a long time, look at it!" ”

When you look for a newspaper, the headline is "Arrest and Liquidation", and the content is also about who was arrested, who helped the Germans, and so on.

This would be fine if it were small, but it is not.

Because, according to modern historians, as many as 40,000 people were executed in France on conviction of collaborators and other crimes. Some 900,000 people were also arrested, 125,000 of whom were forced to answer in court for what they had done during the occupation, those found guilty of crimes "incompatible with national status" were sentenced to prison terms, and those found guilty of "impairing the state" were barred from public service.

It's ironic.

Because if we were to talk about it, none of the French could escape the charge of "being incompatible with national identity" and "tarnishing the status of the nation".

All of France surrendered, and France even became a factory for the manufacture of arms and supplies for Germany, and it was a factory for farming and working in the factories...... All were in the service of the German army, and they had no other choice.

But when the moment of liberation came, they needed to find someone to vent their pent-up anger and inferiority complex, and they needed to cut off from the shame of the past, so there was this arrest and liquidation.

"So!" Annette asked, "Antoine, are you up to the mark?" ”

"Of course!" Antoine nodded dejectedly, "Because we are undoubtedly the object of reckoning, no matter what we do!" ”