A fool's game, very quickly the infamous dividing line appeared to the French for what it really was. This is the story of this 1,200-kilometer-long internal border, installed in one week by Hitler's soldiers at the end of the invasion of May and June 1940, that
La Ligne de demarcation
recounts
. A France cut in two,
the unpublished documentary by Vincent de Cointet. The strength of the precise and educational film, broadcast on France 3 at 9 p.m., is to show very concretely, thanks to the testimonies of French people, children and adolescents at the time, who lived near this line, how much it was a tool for relentless oppression used by the Nazis.
“This line is a bit that we put in the mouth of a horse. If France rears up, we tighten the curb. We will relax her insofar as France is kind. ”
This quote from a German officer read in voice-over illustrates the atmosphere described in particular by Jacques Chauvin.
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