🇫🇷 Miss Dior Late afternoon 6 July 1944, Catherine Dior, Resistance member and sister of fashion designer Christian, is arrested by the Gestapo when she goes to meet a member of her network at Place du Trocadero in Paris... 1/7

@finlaybrannon It would appear to have been via hydrophone - Saunders had turned off his asdic.

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@JohnPeg83296785 Thanks for that - seems that the mercury is a real time bomb.

@nickfshort I passed by there last summer and felt that it had a terrible aura. The rest of the trip saw us passing by Ravensbrück, Poland and the Baltic States, seeing so many sites of atrocities that were a result of that conference.

@MrMirth I think that they knew he was there, hence the zig-zag course.

@MrMirth Must have been good at mathematics to be able to work out the spread and the predicted zig-zag course of the enemy submarine.

🇫🇷 A patriot On 9 February 1944, Claude Bonnier finds himself in a Gestapo cell in Bordeaux. Hidden in his belt is a cyanide pill. He knows what await him at the hands of the Gestapo. With his hands handcuffed behind his back, he manages to free the deadly pill but it falls onto the floor and breaks. Bonnier, a resistance agent inflitrated back into France the previous November, drops to his knees and licks up the poison. He does not die immediately and the prisoner in the adjacent cell hears his agonized moans. When the Germans find him dead, the Gestapo boss, Friedrich Dhose, says, "he was a leader."

Turner crashed into a group of German soldiers as they arrived at the farmhouse. Using the MP 40, he killed their squad leader, then lobbed a grenade around the corner and then charged once it had exploded. Around twenty Germans now had no thirst for the fight and surrendered to Turner and his two comrades. The bodies of a dozen enemy soldiers lay in and around the farmhouse that had been an Alamo in the Ardennes. Sadly, Day G. Turner, would not live to see the award of such a richly deserved Medal of Honor. He was killed in action 80 years ago today in the fighting to cross the Sauer and Our rivers on the Luxembourg border with Germany. We thank him and remember his sacrifice in the liberation of Europe. 7/7

World War Two veteran Houssein Karié Elmi who died yesterday at the age of 101. He joined the Bataillon Somali in February 1944 and landed in Marseille a year later. He took part in the fighting for the Royan Pocket on the French Atlantic Coast in April 1945, as well as the liberation of La Rochelle.

This has been a very moving series. Episode three was particularly harrowing. A timely reminder of the darkest of times.

@philjvtaylor @LouiseG25611487 She is fine, I was able to meet up with her twice last year and she came and did a talk in my high school (Limoges).

🇫🇷 A traitor's end - 6 Febraury 1945 Author and journalist Robert Brasillach is executed by firing squad in the Montrouge fortress, Paris. A supporter of fascism well before the war, he went on to fight for his country when Germany invaded France in May 1940. Under occupation, he became editor for a Fascist newspaper and openly called upon for collaboration with Nazi Germany and even visited French SS volunteers on the Eastern Front. Sentenced to death in January 1945, he appealed but this was turned down by de Gaulle.

Not that I have found. Any Germans receiving propaganda like that would have probably destroyed it. In any case, by February 1945 anyone with an ounce of common sense would have known that it was game over.