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18-year-old French beautiful girl praised submachine guns, killing 2 people and taking 25 prisoners. A group of photos touched millions of people.

In the second world war, the French resistance on the western front only lasted for a month, and this powerful country, which was then known as the world's first army, was defeated. In a hurry? Surrender, men can't defend their country, women bow and scrape to the Nazis, but there is a special individual in it. She only had 1944, but she still shouldered the heavy responsibility of rejuvenating the country, boasting that submachine guns rushed to the front line, and once her bravery was exposed, it became a symbol of women's resistance movement all over the world at that time.

She's Simone? Simon Seguin. 1925 10 She was born in a rural family only 55 kilometers away from the French capital. As the only daughter of three children, Simone was raised as a boy.

A Frenchman shot by the Nazis.

1940, 15 years old, she witnessed the defeat of France in the war in only 1 month, and personally experienced the taste of the conquered nation. On the premise of national identity, she joined a local guerrilla and began to resist the Nazi government. In her later years, someone asked her why she joined the guerrillas at that time. Her answer was simple and direct: Germans are our enemies, and I am French, that's all. ?

Simone's first anti-Nazi action was actually insignificant. She stole a bicycle from the Nazi government to send information to the guerrillas. Later, Simone became more and more courageous. She began to capture the Germans with weapons, blow up bridges and tear up railways. Although young and a daughter, she also became an excellent guerrilla, and the P-40 bullet in her hand was also seized from the Germans.

By this time, the allied forces had landed on the western front, and the German war situation on the eastern front had made no progress at all. The war seems to have reached a major turning point. Only two months later, the Allies arrived in Enemy at the Gates. The Free French Army rushed to its old capital with a large number of local French guerrillas. With the help of the Fourth Infantry Division of the US Army and the local people, the Nazi legion was losing ground, and Simone rushed into Paris as a member of the French guerrillas.

Just before and after the Paris Liberation War, Simone also contributed his strength as a French guerrilla.

1On July 4th, 944, she and two of her comrades-in-arms ambushed, and two German soldiers just entered their ambush circle. She and her comrades shot and killed two Nazi officers, and then she and her team captured 25 Nazi elite soldiers. George, a famous photographer and Hollywood director at that time? As a member of the US Army, Stevens also went to Paris, France to witness and follow this 18-year-old girl. The girl is wearing blue shorts, a black and white coat, a red belt and a khaki hat. Her beautiful appearance complements the P-40 submachine gun in her hand.

George? Stevens took two sets of photos in France, one with this beautiful girl of 18 as the background, and the other in Paris after the war. Shave off your long hair? Dear woman, once these two sets of photos are compared, there is a strong contrast and shock. A set of photos shows a girl of 18 years old defending her country, and a set of photos shows the last fate of a servile French woman, George? Stevens immediately discovered the contradiction.

French women were liquidated after the war.

1 month later, these two sets of photos were published in Life magazine, and millions of people were deeply moved by these photos, which made Simone immediately become a world-class celebrity. Simone didn't expect photographers and editors to handle this. Although she was happy with her reputation, she was still worried during the war? Wrong team? 25% women expressed sympathy and thought that these women should not be treated so cruelly.

Since then, Simone has been promoted to lieutenant and awarded the Hero Cross in recognition of her outstanding achievements in the liberation campaign in Paris. Her troops were also organized as the domestic army (FFI), which was temporarily responsible for the security work of General De Gaulle.

After the war, Simone chose to leave the army and become a gentle pediatric nurse, and she also deeply understood that the proportion of women in the guerrillas may be less than 10%, and the strength of women may not meet the needs of the war. But it is precisely because of this typical image of Simone that it has brought great help to the French feminist movement after World War II.

Simone in his later years

1On April 29th, 945, French women cast their glorious votes as voters for the first time. There is also a street named after Simone near the town where he lives.

In 20 18, the woman who once represented French women in resisting Nazi occupation died at the age of 93.