![]() The German High Command was frustrated trying to unmask this soldier. They created a disgruntled soldier with his own signature and identity.Der Soldat Ohne Namen-The Soldier With No Name. By contrast, Lucy and Suzanne spoke directly to the soldiers themselves appealing to them in their native language as good German men, hoping to divide the soldiers from their leaders so that the rank and file would desert or even mutiny". The goal of these authors was to keep up morale. Arguably, "most writers in occupied territories targeted civilians. When Germans became the occupiers, Lucy and Suzanne used the written word as a form of resistance. The island's towns offered a blend of English and French culture. The two women chose to move to Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. In 1922, conversations were becoming more political, tensions were rising.īy 1937, war was coming. They worked with surrealists to push artistic boundaries. Lucy was a writer, Suzanne an illustrator. Each was artistic with a common love of photography. Suzanne was calm, down to earth and Lucy's caregiver. Lucy was painfully introverted and sickly. ![]() ![]() Lucy & Suzanne were lovers, however, well practiced in the art of secrecy. Lively discussions of arts and ideology prevailed. ![]() ![]() Beach & Monnier and Gertrude Stein & Alice B. They were frequent visitors to evenings hosted by Sylvia Beach, an English language bookstore and its counterpart, the French language bookstore owned by Adrienne Monnier where "literary lights" could meet. Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe were step-sisters, wealthy bourgeois, bank-rolled by their families so they could embrace life in bohemian Paris. Paper Bullets is a compelling World War II story that has not been told before, about the galvanizing power of art, and of resistance.ġ920's Paris was "a place for women to be more independent than they had been before ". Ultimately they survived, but even in jail, they continued to fight the Nazis by reaching out to other prisoners and spreading a message of hope.īetter remembered today by their artist names, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, the couple’s actions were even more courageous because of who they were: lesbian partners known for cross-dressing and creating the kind of gender-bending work that the Nazis would come to call “degenerate art.” In addition, Lucy was half Jewish, and they had communist affiliations in Paris, where they attended political rallies with Surrealists and socialized with artists like Gertrude Stein. Hunted by the secret field police, Lucy and Suzanne were finally betrayed in 1944, when the Germans imprisoned them, and tried them in a court martial, sentencing them to death for their actions. Devising their own PSYOPS campaign, they slipped their notes into soldier’s pockets or tucked them inside newsstand magazines. Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women, Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute “paper bullets”-wicked insults against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive fictional dialogues designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home on the British Channel Island of Jersey. ![]()
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