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Dr. Christopher Thomas, Reynolds history professor, led a give-and-take on what it way to last a resistor too what it way to last a collaborator late at the Around the World through Books program at Reynolds.
Using the context of women inwards the French resistance get described inwards the mass A Train inwards Winter, past times Caroline Moorehead, physician Thomas invoked a solemn thoughtfulness amidst the audience equally he described the expiry military camp where 230 women were deported, the hierarchy of prisoners, too the hole-and-corner activities that brought almost their arrests.
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But it was particular invitee Cornelia Warmenhoeven who captivated the listeners' feelings. Mrs. Warmenhoeven, at ane time 89 too living inwards Midlothian, explained amongst repose precisely intense simplicity the duty too danger she felt equally a immature resistance worker inwards the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. She told of saving men too boys who were hunted past times the Nazis, of carrying them on her bicycle to places where they could shroud inwards safety, too of escorting Allied soldiers through dark, patrolled fields at nighttime to waiting rescuers. She told of her grief when things went wrong, too of her groovy relief when news came that an escaped soldier had gotten away safely.
World War II too German linguistic communication concentration camps may last relegated to history, precisely the ethical issues of compassion, compliance, too complicity volition ever last worth considering.