A shrill voice with a guttural accent resounds within the confines of the Palais Bourbon.
The spans are full.
The benches of the deputies, the press galleries and even those of the visitors are teeming.
The audience listens religiously, looking serious.
This July 19, 1940, Paris is under Nazi occupation.
In the National Assembly, elected officials and parliamentarians gave up their seats to German dignitaries, soldiers and civilians.
All are gathered to attend an interminable speech by Adolf Hitler.
The mines are closed, the expressions severe.
The outfits are neat.
Caps screwed on the head or placed on the desks, the soldiers are in uniform: they all wear a jacket decorated with an eagle with outstretched wings enclosing a swastika.
The "
Führer
" is omnipresent...
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