The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

Mr. Leiris: self, Former Mayor Of Combronde

Quotes 

• Himself - Former Mayor of Combronde : These admirable patriots could definitely have used the help and the leadership of the French officers, who were busy warming their feet by the fire... Don't deny it! I know many people who are guilty. That's the truth. Many people I knew just stayed home. I asked them, at the time, why they didn't follow their friends' lead. They claimed they didn't know how to get in touch with the Resistance. Somehow an old fool like me knew how, and they didn't.

• Self - Former Mayor of Combronde : Our goal, first and foremost, was to attempt to create a climate of psychological fear for the Germans, to keep them in a state of fear, to cut off communications lines, and hopefully blow everything up. That was it. The goal wasn't to kill the Germans.

• Self - Former Mayor of Combronde : There's one thing we often tend to forget. The Germans were Nazis. Fine. But were the French any better than the Nazis? I had a woman shot, a 60 year old woman who had sold me to the Gestapo. She sold me for money. So did my son. For 30 pieces of silver.

  Self - Former Head of the Auvergne Maquis : The people in Auvergne, in a county where we failed, like in Brittany, Vercors or anywhere else, who wanted to find the Resistance had no problem finding it, if that person really wanted to fight, or even to fight in the underground without necessarily going all out.