Klarinet Archive - Posting 000537.txt from 2003/09

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] RE: Is LeBlanc burning?
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:05:58 -0400

From: "Jamie Shifflett"

<<<Sorry about the wrong history, but I did hear about the LeBlanc
factory burning at some point during the war.>>>

You may be exactly right about that. I guess I know less about the
history of LeBlanc than about World War II.

But, another small correction - I picked up the date 1943 from the
original post, but it actually wasn't then but rather in August of 1944
that Paris was liberated. And, I finally remembered the name of the
military commandant of Paris who disobeyed Hitler's orders to burn the
city to the ground. He was General Dietrich von Choltitz.

Finally, I wish that instead of saying that "Paris escaped the war
essentially unscathed" I had said that PHYSICALLY the city was
unscathed. There were plenty of effects of the war that were
detrimental to Paris, including the little-known fact that there were
deportations of Jews and others from Paris to various slave labor camps
and extermination camps, just as there were in nearly every other
central and eastern European city.

OK, I won't say any more about this, as it is getting too far removed
from clarinet related issues.

Ed Lacy
University of Evansville

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