While in Paris we went to Les Invalides, which houses an army museum, including a fantastic exhibit on the Second World War (the years 1939-1945—notice anything different from a similar museum in America?). I'm pretty familiar with places like this, having visited similar museums in the U.S. and Britain, but here the focus, obviously, was on the French involvement and occupation (though not to the exclusion of the rest of the war). It was like looking at the Atlantic from the other side: same ocean, different direction.
I learned the German occupiers referred to the French freedom fighters as "terrorists." I guess one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist.
I also just finished reading a thriller, where the bad guys were terrorists. Terrorists who tortured and murdered babies in front of their mothers.
It occurred to me that freedom fighters would never have done anything like this, even in fiction. Not even one dimensional freedom fighters.
