'They scavenged scraps': the Britons rounded up by the Nazis in occupied France

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Descendants of the 3,000 British internees and their families recount one of the war’s forgotten episodes

The soldiers and gendarmes came early – so early that some of the people they took were still in pyjamas. In the first days of July 1940, barely a week after the armistice, few had been expecting the first Nazi roundup of enemy aliens on French soil.

 

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RivieraReporter RivieraReporter I think you meant scavanged*

This would have happened to my uncle, an English father and French mother, if he had not left to join the Free French soon after occupation.

No sh*t ?

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