Correspondent in Berlin
Until her father's death in 1990, Agnès Tanière, resident of Saint-Félix-de-Rieutord, never knew that he had been interned in Stalag III D in Lichterfelde from August 1940 to March 1945. It is in this Berlin district, located on the southwestern outskirts of the city, that historians and local activists took it upon themselves to publicly honor the memory of Joseph Baby by delaying construction on the site of former barracks prisoners, a gigantic residential district of 2,500 homes.
The former retired nurse, with the lilting South-West accent, probably wasn't asking for that much.
In the weeks following her father's death, she was content to discover letters belonging to him, carefully arranged in the library and which the children, during his lifetime, would never have had the audacity to open.
Around 400 ordinary letters from soldier Baby, 15th engineer, captured in June 1940 on the Maginot Line, addressed to his…
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