“Taken for delinquents”: The French fishermen refused to act in World War II

During the Second World War, almost 30,000 tons of ammunition in and around Brest Harbor were dropped in western France, and the risk of not exploding ammunition was constant for the fishing boats that work in the surrounding waters. The fishermen should collect and report all the shells they find, but in the past two years most have thrown them directly into the water – the result of a bitter argument with the authorities.



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