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

[Mike Rechtman]

On 12/08/12 18:35, Dirk Munk wrote:
> MG wrote:
>> On 9-8-2012 21:00, Paul Sture wrote:
>>> FWIW when I was in Holland in 1981/2 I was often bought beers by total
>>> strangers who on learning that I was English wanted to thank me for
>>> rescuing them or a relative from a German PoW camp. "But I wasn't born
>>> then" was met with "Well your father rescued us/them then".
>>
>> How old were they, around 50~60?
>>
>>
>>> It made me realise that those of us whose countries weren't occupied
>>> don't fully understand what occupied countries went through.
>>
>> There's a joke: After 1945, everybody was in 'the resistance'!
>>
>>   - MG
>
> That is true. As an example I recently heard the story of a resistance group in
> the North of the province of North Holland. During the war the group consisted
> out of appr. 15 men and women, after the war ended more than a hundred claimed
> to have been a member.

Apparently there were more members of the French Resistance than were resident 
in France at the relevant times...


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