講到這裡我想起那個遙遠的Marc Bloch (1939) (1942) (1886-1944)

In 1939 France declared war on Germany after its invasion and occupation of Poland. As France mobilized its troops, Marc Bloch left his position at the Sorbonne and took up his reserve status as a captain in the French Army at the age of 52. He was encouraged at the time by colleagues both in France and abroad to leave the country. He said it was his personal obligation to stand for the moral imperative.

"I was born in France, I have drunk the waters of her culture. I have made her past my own. I breathe freely only in her climate, and I have done my best, with others, to defend her interests."^[8]

His memoir of the first days of World War II, Strange Defeat, written in 1940 but not published until 1946, blamed the sudden total military defeat on the French military establishment, along with her social and political culture, and helped after the war to neutralize the traumatic memory of France's failure, and to build a new French identity.^[9]

Bloch joined the French Resistance in late 1942 (56 y/o), driven by ardent patriotism, identification with his Jewish roots and a conception of France as the champion of liberty. His code name was "Narbonne". He was eventually captured in Lyon by Vichy police in March 1944 and turned over to the Gestapo. He was then imprisoned in Montluc prison, and was tortured by the Gestapo at their headquarters. He was interrogated by Klaus Barbie who was in charge of interrogations at the prison. Under such treatment Bloch remained "calm and stoic" throughout, according to his biographer Carole Fink, reportedly providing no other information to his captors than his real name.^[10]

At around 8pm on the night of 16 June 1944, ten days after D-Day, Marc Bloch was among twenty-eight Resistance prisoners taken by German troops in a camionette (an open truck) along the River Saone to a place called La Rousille just before the village of Saint-Didier-de-Formans in the Ain department. Here, shortly after 10.00 pm in a meadow surrounded by high bushes, Bloch was executed by firing squad, one of the first group of four of the twenty-eight,^[11] handcuffed in pairs, to face the machine guns, and one of twenty-six men to be murdered that night in a period of twenty minutes.^[12] The victims were stripped of all means of identification and left by the Germans in the field. The following day they were found by Marcel Pouveret, a schoolmaster, who informed the mayor of St Didier, to whom he was assistant, and the mayor called in the gendarmerie of Trevoux to bury the bodies.^{[13] [3]} There is today a memorial to those killed in the meadow near where they were shot.

As Bloch had spent his final days in prison, he left unfinished one of his most intimate works and a classic of historiography, "The Historian's Craft" (Apologie pour l'histoire ou Métier d'historien), which was edited and published posthumously, by which time Marc Bloch had become a national martyr following the Allied liberation.<sup>[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bloch#Execution</sup>



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我說過我會死在台灣講到這裡我點起紙菸看著窗外風雨飄搖想起那個遙遠的死在路邊的Marc Bloch