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View submission: Were non-French civilians actively persecuted in Nazi-occupied France?
Thank you so much! This is extremely helpful, and I will be definitely be checking all the links you've included here. I was also curious as to the involvement of the Canadian embassy during this time - but it appears that Canada's minister (Georges Vanier) fled to London after the fall of France in 1940. For my story, my MC is to go in hiding during the Nazi invasion, and later with the use of a fake identity card, to stay in Paris without being interned at any camps.
Comment by gerardmenfin at 19/01/2025 at 09:36 UTC
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Yes that's plausible. There were several French Canadian SOE agents[1] in France, as being native French speakers helped them maintain their cover (in some cases the French Canadian accent could pass for a Normand French accent!). I've mentioned one of them, Lucien Dumais, in a previous answer about escape lines that rescued Allied airmen[2] (Dumais was one of the founders of the Shelburn escape line).