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Outwitting the Gestapo
Outwitting the Gestapo
Author: Lucie Aubrac
Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. Outwittin...  more » is Lucie's harrowing account of her participation in the Resistance: of the months when, though pregnant, she planned and took part in raids to free comrades—including her husband, under Nazi death sentence—from the prisons of Klaus Barbie, the infamous Butcher of Lyon. Her book is also the basis for the 1997 French movie, Lucie Aubrac, which was released in the United States in 1999.
ISBN-13: 9780803259232
ISBN-10: 0803259239
Publication Date: 11/1/1994
Pages: 241
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This book details one woman's story of love and Resistance in France during World War II. It is not a love story, but rather a story about the love of a married couple, both actively resisting the Nazis.

Written as a first hand account, the book shows the struggles of a wife and mother fighting to free her country from oppression.


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