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Outwitting The Gestapo
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Lucie Aubrac, of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. Outwitting the Gestapo is Lucie's harrowing account of her participation in the Resistance: of the months when, though pregnant, she planned and took part in raids to free comrades - including her husband, under Nazi death sentence - from the prisons of Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon." The translator, Konrad Bieber, is an emeritus professor of French and comparative literature at Suny, Stony Brook, and a survivor of Nazi Terror. The introducer is Margaret Collins Weitz, professor of humanities and languages at Suffolk University in Boston.
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Publication date : 1993-06
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, History, Politics, Social Services & Welfare, Criminology, Second World War, Fascism & Nazism, Police & Security Services