Story "I Know Something You Don't Know"
Written and illustrated by Enrica Agostinelli
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)
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Story "I Know Something You Don't Know"
Written and illustrated by Enrica Agostinelli
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)
with Peter Woods; Weather
The true story of the Occupation of France during the last war.
The occupiers and the occupied, the collaborators and the maquis, politicians and generals tell their story, unfolding a picture very far from the popular image of the war years.
Contributors include:
From Britain:
Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War
Maurice J. Buckmaster, Chief of F section of SOE
Major-Gen Sir Edward Spears, Head of the British Mission to General de Gaulle
From France:
Pierre Mendes-France, member of the Free French Air Squadron
Georges Bidault, President of the Conseil National de la Resistance
Jacques Duclos, former Chief of the clandestine Communist Party
Christian de la Maziere, volunteer in the French Division of the Waffen SS
Emile Coulaudon, former Chief of the Auvergne Maquis
From Germany:
Captain Helmuth Tausend, Wehrmacht Captain
Dr Paul Schmidt, Hitler's chief interpreter
General Walter Warlimont, Deputy Chief of Operations Staff, Wehrmacht
and the people of Clermont-Ferrand and nearby
Produced by Television Rencontre NDR and SSR
English version prepared by Marcel Ophuls in collaboration with the BBC
(Treason! the shame of wartime France: p 3)
("The Sorrow and the Pity" is the subject of tomorrow's Line-Up.)