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specialized French workers to Germany,
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in exchange for the release
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of French prisoners of war from 1940--ha ha.
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But now they say, "well, you got to go," and they'll
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show up into your village and you better be ready to go.
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650,000 workers were sent to Germany as conscript labor.
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This also contributes to discredit further the Vichy regime
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vis-à-vis its population, and the grumbling about
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Pétain, the grumbling about shortages and
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the grumbling about the German soldiers give way now to
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more open resentment.
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The Bishop of Lille, a guy called Cardinale