[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <mm9ff9-ebk2.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>,
	Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:21:28 +0200, MG wrote:
> 
>> On 10-8-2012 3:16, David Froble wrote:
>>> Bad joke.
>> 
>> Actually, it was a very truthful one.  Many people didn't care about the
>> occupation, life went on.
>> 
>> Months ago (or a few years possibly by now) a French photo exhibition
>> was cancelled and 'banned', because it didn't show how "horrible life
>> was back then", just people smiling and going about their daily lives.
>> That didn't meet the requirements of what is usually shown in the
>> novelized lecture, TV series and films, I guess.
>> 
> 
> In the same vein a French colleague told me about piece of newsreel which 
> was only rarely shown on French TV because it didn't paint the right 
> picture.  It showed large crowds of French welcoming the Germans as they 
> entered Paris.   Life has to go on and I imagine there were plenty of 
> restaurants and hotels who benefited from the trade.

Have you never seen the famous editorial cartoon from that period (it was
in some history book I had back in my school days) that shown the French
lining the streets of Paris waving American flags as the Americans drive
in while holding Nazi flags behind their backs.  Even as a child I got
the point.

And on a more personal note.  One of the parents of a friend of mine when
I was in Germany in the very early 70's had been part of the German Army
that occipied France during the war. He was a very low ranking soldier
and lived pretty much the same way I was living in Germany.  He had a
French girlfriend and often was invited home for dinner.  History is
seldom what you see coming out of Hollywood.

bill
 

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