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AIX-EN-PROVENCE

Forced to walk the streets to jeers and torments, women marked for their intimate association with Nazi occupiers, struggle to maintain dignity as they are paraded by the F.F.I. most likely to prison. After the 1940 German invasion the south of France was an unoccupied zone under the French "Vichy" government. After the November 1942 Allied landings in North Africa the German army occupied all of France.