Prof. Greg Jackson
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7,804 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3d ago
Prof. Greg Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And lest the point be lost, Vichy, not the occupying Nazis, created la milice and le STO.
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Vichy did Adolf's dirty work.
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And that is how Vichy's leader, the man we first met so long ago as a hero in our World War I episodes, the Lion of Verdun, Philippe Etain, falls from his position as France's son of the morning to his own personal perdition.
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But Philippe's final tale is far ahead.
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Right now, the service du travail obligatoire has caused tens of thousands of young men to disappear into France's dense forests and expansive mountains.
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And not just to get away, but to fight back.
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Known as Le Maquis, the word for the dense Mediterranean scrubland where Corsican outlaws once vanished from the law, these young men, as well as women, take to France's forests and mountains as they turn to guerrilla warfare in their fight to liberate France from within.
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While it's exciting to see the French, or at least a sizable minority of the French, reclaim their will to fight, let us be clear, the resistance is a far cry from an organized army.
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From the predominantly communist-led franc-tireurs et partisans, to the Jewish and Zionist armée juive, the countless bands of mountain-dwelling maquis, and so many other resistance organizations, coordination is on par with herding cats.
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Yet, as the emerging leader of France in the eyes of the Allies, Charles de Gaulle wants to bring them into his fold.
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Needs to, in fact, if he's going to join FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at the big boys' table and completely edge out his remaining competitor, Henri Giraud.
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But how does one convince the independently-minded, politically divided French people, a reality that Charles himself will allegedly quip about decades from now by asking, how can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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To pull together now, well, the general has a lot of help, most memorably from Jean Moulin.
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Born and raised not far from southern France's Mediterranean coast, handsome and talented Jean Moulin was a likable if lackadaisical student who grew up to become an effective civil servant, serving as France's youngest prefect in history.
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He was serving in this influential and connective position in Chartres when the Nazis arrived in 1940 and immediately his resolve as a French official was put to the test.
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The Germans wanted him to sign a protocol condemning colonial troops for massacres and atrocities.
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But Jean knew they weren't guilty.
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That these brave tirailleurs were guilty of nothing save defending the Third Republic.
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Jean was locked in a room with a dismembered corpse.
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A woman's corpse, he believed.
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