Meeting of the LVF at Vel'd'Hiv'

Meeting of the LVF at Vel'd'Hiv'

The music of the Legion of French Volunteers parades in a street;VG of the crowd that enters the vel' d'Hiv' where LVF personalities speak in front of 20,000 people. - The Commander of MESSINE: - "Taillez, jostle, crush, knock out the people who are falling asleep with the truth. Cinglez, scold, thunder this insane youth". - General PUAUD: "-"... What are we now in France? Little, a poor country that has no army, no navy, no colonies. Where is the duty?" Rebuild an armed force. We will rebuild our colonial army, we will rebuild the foreign Legion, we will rebuild the tirailleurs, we will rebuild the colonial troops". - Captain BASSOMPIERRE: - "... You can imagine my emotion and my joy at seeing in Russia, in a territory as big as a French department, above our thirty-two points of support that we occupied then, flying our flag that every morning, our legionaries hoisted with love". - Lieutenant GAUCHER: "... The public authorities can certainly do a lot, but it is still up to the young people of France to make the gesture that will decide everything". "Monsignor MAYOL DE LUPÉ: "It is a beautiful mystery, a song of gesture, written by our boys at the tip of their ba.onnette, with the ink of their blood on this immense white page of the Russian steppe snow." Youth of France, will you understand the spiritual of the French Legion?" - -Lieutenant Jacques DORIOT: "... I want to salute these first pioneers who faced the risks of combat as early as 1941, and the harsher rigours of the terrible winter of 1941/1942. Thanks to the Legion, France has the possibility to reconstitute the only military force that can be accepted in Europe, since it contributes to the common defence.... Does she not know, our youth, that if she does not fight, the young people of Europe who give their blood on the Eastern Front, will have nothing but contempt for her? To be 20 years old, to live in the greatest time in human history and to do the "Zazou" physically, morally... What decay, what decay!" -Various views of the public during the speeches of the speakers:GP by Joseph DARNAND,President of the LVF,Fernand de BRINON;young people of the Legion;journalists;VG of the audience saluting the outstretched arm.

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File : Collaboration, Vichy’s France

Publication date : 21 April 1944