08-21-1944:
The Collaborator's Punishment
“At 0830 hrs we crossed the Siene River
at Rosity on the West bank and Guernes
on the East. We crossed on a pontoon bridge the engineers
had built. There was some enemy air activity, but our anti-aircraft
fire held them off. We proceeded upriver and made camp near
Dennenton.
As the executive officer of the Battalion, I was usually
the last man to leave the old position when on the offense.
So it was today. As I crossed, at the East end of the bridge,
a crowd of people was in the process of cutting a woman’s
hair and stripping her of her clothes. This was her punishment
for fraternizing with the Germans during the occupation
period. The Germans had left rather suddenly. The mayor
of the town was a German appointee and had been killed by
the townspeople.”
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Location on this day: GUERNES, Île-De-France, FRANCE
311th Command Post in an open field
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this day in World War II: |
| (till 9 October). Conference of Dumbarton
Oaks, between USA, Great-Britain, Sowjet-Union and China.
Allied representatives meet at Dumbarton Oaks, near Washington,
D.C., in a conference to discuss postwar security. An agreement
is signed to create an assembly of all nations, a council
of leading states, and an International Court of Justice.
Among those attending are Edward Stettinius (U.S.), Sir
Alexander Cadogan (British) and Andrei Gromyko (Soviet Union).
This assembly is to be known as the United Nations.
German forces of Heeresgruppe Mitte retake Tukkum in Estonia,
reestablishing contact with Heeresgruppe Nord (Schoerner).
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