This week in the War, 18–24 August 1941: Pierre Georges fires the first shot in Nazi-occupied Paris

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German notice proclaiming that, as the result of the killing of a member of the German armed forces on 21 August [1941], Frenchmen under arrest would be considered as hostages and could be shot as a reprisal for future killings of German personal. [Public domain, wiki]

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