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The French have no right to be proud of their World War II resistance

“Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not die and cannot die.” So said Charles de Gaulle in a famous appeal to his countrymen broadcast by the BBC on 18 June 1940, after Paris had fallen to Nazi Germany. But the flame turned out to be a flickering one, and since the war France has endured decades of soul-searching and debate over what actually happened and whether the country’s wartime history should be a source of pride or shame.

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