The address must bear the person's name, surname,
and the number of his identification card.
It is very necessary for each person to provide himself with
utensils for eating and drinking, also with a woolen blanket
and some good shoes and some linen. Each person must have on
his person his identification card. Whoever shall attempt to
evade deportation shall be punished without mercy.
ETAPPEN--KOMMANDANTUR
The threat contained in the notice cited here was carried out to the
letter. Here is an account of it from the communication addressed by
M. D----, formerly the _receveur particulier_ of Lille, to M. Cambon,
formerly the French Ambassador to Berlin:
On Good Friday night at three o'clock the troops who were
going to occupy the designated section, Fives, came through
our houses. It was dreadful. An officer passed by, pointing
out the men and women whom he chose, leaving them a space of
time amounting to an hour in some cases and ten minutes in
others, to prepare themselves for their journey.
Antoine D. ... and his sister, twenty-two years of age, were
taken away. The Germans did not want to leave behind the
younger daughter in the family, who was not fourteen.
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