#occupiedfrance — Public Fediverse posts

#WarStory: #OccupiedFrance - a quite challenging great #solo #wargame. With a little irony, #FightingFantasy next level. I dig it. #boardgames #games #ww2 #wargames

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Lee Miller, FFI worker, liberated Paris, 1944.

The FFI were the Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, resistance fighters who helped liberate France in the final years of WWII. They wore civilian clothing, armed themselves, and identified themselves with armbands.

For FFI and civilian women in occupied Paris, elaborate hair, pretty dresses and lipstick became a form of resistance and subversion. It was a way to fight back against the Nazi ideal of "natural" and "unpainted" Aryan femininity.

There was a scarcity of lipstick ingredients during occupation, so French women invented their own replacements, mixing together things like beeswax and beetroot to keep their lips red, a symbol of defiance against the Nazis.

#WWII #leemiller #FFI #occupiedfrance #photography #history #resistance #france #paris

Lee Miller, FFI worker, liberated Paris, 1944.

The FFI were the Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, resistance fighters who helped liberate France in the final years of WWII. They wore civilian clothing, armed themselves, and identified themselves with armbands.

For FFI and civilian women in occupied Paris, elaborate hair, pretty dresses and lipstick became a form of resistance and subversion. It was a way to fight back against the Nazi ideal of "natural" and "unpainted" Aryan femininity.

There was a scarcity of lipstick ingredients during occupation, so French women invented their own replacements, mixing together things like beeswax and beetroot to keep their lips red, a symbol of defiance against the Nazis.

#WWII #leemiller #FFI #occupiedfrance #photography #history #resistance #france #paris

Lee Miller, FFI worker, liberated Paris, 1944.

The FFI were the Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, resistance fighters who helped liberate France in the final years of WWII. They wore civilian clothing, armed themselves, and identified themselves with armbands.

For FFI and civilian women in occupied Paris, elaborate hair, pretty dresses and lipstick became a form of resistance and subversion. It was a way to fight back against the Nazi ideal of "natural" and "unpainted" Aryan femininity.

There was a scarcity of lipstick ingredients during occupation, so French women invented their own replacements, mixing together things like beeswax and beetroot to keep their lips red, a symbol of defiance against the Nazis.

#WWII #leemiller #FFI #occupiedfrance #photography #history #resistance #france #paris

Wishing a wonderful birthday to #WAAF #PippaLatour, the last surviving female #WW2 #SOE special agent. 
#MBE #legiondhonneur 
#botd 1921, Pippa joined the SOE following her godmother’s suicide after being imprisoned. 
She parachuted into #OccupiedFrance before #DDay, hiding strips of coding silk inside her shoe laces & to tie up her hair. 
Chatting to German soldiers she learnt then encoded military intelligence which helped guide bombing missions.
@histodons #histodons #history #WW2 #agent #women

Wishing a wonderful birthday to #WAAF #PippaLatour, the last surviving female #WW2 #SOE special agent. 
#MBE #legiondhonneur 
#botd 1921, Pippa joined the SOE following her godmother’s suicide after being imprisoned. 
She parachuted into #OccupiedFrance before #DDay, hiding strips of coding silk inside her shoe laces & to tie up her hair. 
Chatting to German soldiers she learnt then encoded military intelligence which helped guide bombing missions.
@histodons #histodons #history #WW2 #agent #women

Wishing a wonderful birthday to #WAAF #PippaLatour, the last surviving female #WW2 #SOE special agent. 
#MBE #legiondhonneur 
#botd 1921, Pippa joined the SOE following her godmother’s suicide after being imprisoned. 
She parachuted into #OccupiedFrance before #DDay, hiding strips of coding silk inside her shoe laces & to tie up her hair. 
Chatting to German soldiers she learnt then encoded military intelligence which helped guide bombing missions.
@histodons #histodons #history #WW2 #agent #women

Wishing a wonderful birthday to #WAAF #PippaLatour, the last surviving female #WW2 #SOE special agent. 
#MBE #legiondhonneur 
#botd 1921, Pippa joined the SOE following her godmother’s suicide after being imprisoned. 
She parachuted into #OccupiedFrance before #DDay, hiding strips of coding silk inside her shoe laces & to tie up her hair. 
Chatting to German soldiers she learnt then encoded military intelligence which helped guide bombing missions.
@histodons #histodons #history #WW2 #agent #women

Wishing a wonderful birthday to #WAAF #PippaLatour, the last surviving female #WW2 #SOE special agent.
#MBE #legiondhonneur
#botd 1921, Pippa joined the SOE following her godmother’s suicide after being imprisoned.
She parachuted into #OccupiedFrance before #DDay, hiding strips of coding silk inside her shoe laces & to tie up her hair.
Chatting to German soldiers she learnt then encoded military intelligence which helped guide bombing missions.
@histodons #histodons #history #WW2 #agent #women

Sorry to learn of the death, age 102, of the last man from in #SOE’s French section. RIP #MarcelJaurantSinger, #WirelessOperator & #resistance organizer, parachuted to #OccupiedFrance 3.3.1944. Below remembering lost colleagues in #Valençay on 6.5.2016, with SOE’s #NoreenRiols.
@histodons #histodons #WW2 #lestweforget

Sorry to learn of the death, age 102, of the last man from in #SOE’s French section. RIP #MarcelJaurantSinger, #WirelessOperator & #resistance organizer, parachuted to #OccupiedFrance 3.3.1944. Below remembering lost colleagues in #Valençay on 6.5.2016, with SOE’s #NoreenRiols.
@histodons #histodons #WW2 #lestweforget

Sorry to learn of the death, age 102, of the last man from in #SOE’s French section. RIP #MarcelJaurantSinger, #WirelessOperator & #resistance organizer, parachuted to #OccupiedFrance 3.3.1944. Below remembering lost colleagues in #Valençay on 6.5.2016, with SOE’s #NoreenRiols.
@histodons #histodons #WW2 #lestweforget

Sorry to learn of the death, age 102, of the last man from in #SOE’s French section. RIP #MarcelJaurantSinger, #WirelessOperator & #resistance organizer, parachuted to #OccupiedFrance 3.3.1944. Below remembering lost colleagues in #Valençay on 6.5.2016, with SOE’s #NoreenRiols.
@histodons #histodons #WW2 #lestweforget