Phi's article...

Hi guys!

Today I speak about when I would like to go back in time… 

It's special but I wanted to be present during  World War II, it depends where because I would have been terrified knowing that I'm a big coward.

But I've always wondered what side I would have been, collaborator or resistant. 

It is on the living conditions were very complicated with extermination, occupation… 

It’s terrifying. 

I think I would have been a tough penny but the pressure and the danger of war, perhaps I would have been obliged to give in.

 I wish I was there to resist and help to change things to change the world and the course  history… as in Quentin Tarantino's film Inglorious Bastard, it takes place  in 1940.

Shosanna  witnessed the execution of her family and escapes, she takes refuge in Paris and becomes the owner of a cinema and she will decide to establish a very personal revenge. 

I love this film and I wanted to implement such actions and be that kind of hero if I had lived during this period but I don’t know if I'd have the courage.

There are no real advantages to live during this time; it's just the desire to make a difference that is present.

It’s very hard to live a war but I would have liked to be here to help and change things.

I would be a hero of the resistance but not live during all the war, it must have been a traumatic time.

I wanted to help people like Lucie Aubrac, she joined the Liberation-sud resistance group in Lyon after its formation by her husband.

On 21 October 1943 she attacked the German truck with her comrades, it was transporting the prisoners back to German command and they released members of the Resistance who were being held.

Lucie Aubrac was a great heroine and it’s a woman; if I had been in her time I would myself join  this cause. 

A second person I wanted to meet and which this time is a man is Johan Georg Elser, it was a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler: he constructed and placed a time bomb near the speaking platform but the bomb failed to kill Hitler but killed eight people and injured over sixty two others.

A film is also released in October 2015 on this man who is a hero despite the failure of the assassination of Hitler. The film is Elser, an ordinary hero.

                                

So I wish I lived during World War II. It is a tragic time but this is a time when men fought for this freedom!

By PHI.