THE FRENCH PEOPLE
IMPATIENT FOR SECOND FRONT LONDON, Apl. 30. “Paris to-day is nearly deserted except for German soldiers and women in uniform,” said M. Marcel Poimboeuf, a member of the French Christian Trade Union, who recently escaped from France to Britain. He added that the Germans were making an effort to transfer as many Frenchmen as possible to Germany in the hope of ruining French industry and reducing the risk of Frenchmen assisting the Allies when a second front was launched. Food conditions were extremely bad, and shoes and clothes must be ordered six months in advance.
“The Germans at night time enter factories, seize machines, and send them to Germany,” he said. “French prisoners exchanged for French workers are sent on leave when they arrive in France, and are liable to be called up at any time and sent back to Germany. There is very great impatience among the French masses for a second front, and if it is too long delayed there will be little or no help because there will be no Frenchmen left.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25215, 3 May 1943, Page 3
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