Outwitting the Gestapo

Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007), of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the Resistance movement in opposition to the Nazis and their collaborators. Outwitting the Gestapo is Lucie's harrowing account of her participation in the Resistance: of the months when, though pregnant, she planned and took part in raids to free comrades--including her husband, under Nazi death sentence--from the prisons of Klaus Barbie, the infamous Butcher of Lyon. Her book is also the basis for the 1997 French movie, Lucie Aubrac, which was released in the United States in 1999. Purchase the audio edition.

Author: Lucie Aubrac
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 11/01/1994
Pages: 241
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.30w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9780803259232
ISBN10: 0803259239
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust

About the Author
The translator, Konrad Bieber, is an emeritus professor of French and comparative literature at SUNY, Stony Brook, and a survivor of Nazi Terror. The introducer is Margaret Collins Weitz, professor of humanities and languages at Suffolk University in Boston.