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Post On the road with the people of France. 12 to 20 June 1940 - Margaret Bloch / May 1940, the children of the exodus / Extracts - Video.

Having the continuity of ideas, I suggest you read on the train .... Whether you go to Poitiers or somewhere else, whatever your destination by train, the suggestion of Jerome Garcin-I make my own-take the rails ....
He writes: "This summer, if you go to Poitiers from Paris by TGV, count half past one. Time to read at leisure in this comfortable fleece that silence gives the speed, the incredible story of a woman thrown there seventy years on the long road exodus. Part walk from Paris, 12 June 1940, she arrived in Poitiers June 29 " (1)

Yes, this woman, Germaine Bloch, and many others, children, sick, infirm, old and" less old "... people from all social classes flee Paris during the German advance.

"She is pregnant with her daughter, Marianne, a German friend, a Flemish artist Frans Masereel-and-wife. It describes, day after day, the slow progress of their little group to the Loire by secondary roads. Through villages, shuttered and businesses closed. White nights in barns, rectories, under the stars. Blistered feet that heals the ointment Reclus. Hunger, thirst, confusion. And suddenly, the announcement of the signing of the armistice that crown in the countryside, a choreography of the absurd that they are overwhelmed witnesses: behind them, the seasoned German troops move south, before them, the French soldiers in rags going north, in the middle cohort endless frightened civilians including "the The strange silence [it] seems a scream ". Jérôme Garcin (1)

Who is Germaine Bloch?

Peter Largess e, historian, this way: "Margaret (1884-1975), born Herzog, a family of clothiers Alsatian, was the sister of Emile ( Andre Maurois ). At nineteen, she met Jean-Richard Bloch (1884-1947), Associate of young German novelist and future. They were married in 1907 and Elbeuf have five children. This Jewish family and fully participates in the communist intellectual and political life, she would be hit hard by war. " (2)

Wednesday, June 12, 1940, 21 h 30 . In his apartment in the Rue de Richelieu, Paris, Marguerite Bloch, [...] turns on the radio. The news is scary: "The enemy is stepping up its pressure on both sides of the capital." Could not sleep. The fear, of course. But also the noise. That guns in the distance. That people, especially, "she wrote (3) :

" People on foot with bundles, bags, suitcases; people cycling with loads quirky, people with strollers, handcarts, and top, middle packages, children, their toys, sometimes an old woman "

Jewish and communist as well say ... in danger of death, she and her family. The Bloch fear, rightly, to be arrested by the Nazis. Margaret will then flee Paris with her daughter and friends, while her husband fled from his side. It seeks to join home at Poitiers, she will succeed. Indeed, his daughter Margaret and Jean-Richard found in their house in La Mérigotte in Poitou. With the help of the Soviet embassy, the couple Bloch left France for the Soviet Union April 15, 1941, he returned to France a few years later.

"On the road with the people of France. 12 to 20 June 1940 "Simply

originally signed" A French , "the story of Marguerite Bloch just been published. "Claire Paulhan , great editor of untraceable, unearthed this manuscript in the archives of his grandfather, Jean Paulhan, the boss of the NRF, which had also found "poignant" and "sober". But he never appeared. [...]. History is a model line, "writes Jerome Garcin.

"The story these days is chaotic confirmed by historical studies Marc Bloch (the Strange Defeat), Claude Willard, Robert O. Paxton or Olivier Wieviorka, "says historian Peter Largesse.
For her part, Irene Nemirovsky paints a touching portrait and realistic, this exodus of June 1940 in his novel "French Suite" which upset me deeply.

Here are some excerpts from the book by Marguerite Bloch.

"Orleans was still far away. But we were anxious to get there. When I say we, I mean all of us, these thousands and thousands of people who, like us, hoping to find a job, trains, supplies, and without doubt - an idea less clear but perhaps dominant - the army assembled on the Loire and finally forming wall between the enemy rushing at full speed of his motorized forces and the people of France, driven from their homes. "

"Without fear of the bombing, that no longer find anything to eat, mothers, old people would not have begun to flee, often without knowing where to go ... It has created a complete disorganization ... Incapacity, of course, but will be separated especially. Deliver the army of the enemy probably was not enough, he also had to deliver the people and in a state of moral and material abandonment that left him totally helpless. How many of these poor fugitives thought to Spain? They think only the present moment. From, away from the fire area, take refuge in a quiet corner. A young woman in front of a bakery wants to death and passion to Daladier in Munich ... I agree with his sense for Czechoslovakia. It's about time! Running the day, running at night under the sun and the airplanes; with children, old people, dogs and caged birds, yes, all that you can endure, but we must regain strength. The military authorities could not supply it at the same time, the retreating soldiers and civilians caught up in this retreat? No, nothing. Their chorus was all: there has not been beaten, there was very keep well, we were betrayed if one has folded, is in order, our defeat was due. "

"To say we have seen so many films of refugees on the roads ... but nothing, not anything that was approaching. Not only the road but the aisles are filled and the sidewalk. Large commercial trucks, mid-military trucks, hitches peasants, passenger cars of all models, all ages, and motorcyclists, and bicyclists, strollers and a collection of the most improbable; handcarts pulled by man and supporting furniture , children, the grandmother's legs dangling, Small cars containing children up to three children and packages most crooked, or no children at all and all the riches of the family - but mostly pedestrians loaded, crushed beneath the bags, bales, bags and forcing a passage through the vehicles, tense crowd, who only thinks ahead, only to flee, head down, and, most impressive, completely silent. "

The exodus of the Belgians, in May 1940, will precede that of French in June 1940.
testimony that engage women and men as children, but now older winces, and the images that accompany their stories we live are its painful moments of the Second World War. At
heart-wrenching. This old man who tells it was 10 years old in 1940 - have seen the smile of a bomber pilot just before he drops the bomb on him and his father. His father was beheaded and he was sucked in and found himself in the crater of the bomb. Badly wounded, a German doctor and took care saved his life ...
All evidence is not as pathetic, but witnesses abound in the same direction: it is at this tender age they lost their childhood, they have become adults ...

Haro on life thieves, thieves of childhood!

Thus in addition to my post, I invite you to see this documentary in 10 episodes on YouTube, entitled:

"May 1940, children of the exodus" .

is the first episode. A touching story page.


The book ... . to read flawlessly: an essential.

" On the road with the people of France. June 12 to June 29, 1940 , Marguerite Bloch. Edition established and annotated by Philip Niogret & Claire Paulhan. Foreword by Daniel Milhaud-Cappe. Biographical and afterword by Philip Niogret.
Notes on the text by Claire Paulhan. 18 photographs and facsimiles in black. and white. 9 illustrations by Frans Masereel, Editions Claire Paulhan, 2010, 192 pages.

Sources:
(1) On the road to Poitiers by Jerome Garcin, on BiblioObs .
(2) Marguerite Bloch on the roads of the exodus by Pierre Largesse, historian, in Humanity .
(3) Spring where people were thrown on the roads , The World books .