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Credits Executive Producer: Ted Childs Producer: Chris Kelly Director: David Wheatley, Malcolm Mowbray Intro MONSIGNOR RENARD/Episode 3/Intro by Russell Baker As our story resumes tonight, the town of St. Josse has been under German occupation for four months. Two men have been working to keep anything terrible from happening between the conquered French and conquering Germans. And so far they've succeeded. They are Monsignor Renard, the town's spiritual leader, and the German commander of the local occupation unit. His aim is to avoid nasty confrontations that will outrage the town and, so, make his job harder. Monsignor Renard has no interest in making the Germans' job easier, but he's aware that, if provoked, the Germans can do the town terrible harm. Lately he seems troubled by his own attempts to accommodate the Germans. Last time we saw him speak passionately to the town's people about freedom. It was a daring declaration of hostility to Nazism, a speech bound to make the Germans wonder if he's become a potentially dangerous enemy. Not all Monsignor Renard's problems are political. Two intensely human problems confront him in tonight's story. One is the mental breakdown of the town druggist's wife. She believes she is to blame for the disappearance and possible death of their young son during the battle for France. The other is the despair of a young woman who has been raped. Now, third installment, Monsignor Renard. Extro MONSIGNOR RENARD/Episode 3/Extro by Russell Baker The Germans were to remain in towns like St. Josse for another three-and-a-half years. What finally ended the occupation was the Allied invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. Our fictional St. Josse lies slightly northeast of Normandy in the Pas de Calais, near the English Channel. That's where Hitler expected the Allies to land Believing the Normandy landing was just a feint, Hitler held his troops in the Pas de Calais while the allied army poured across the Normandy beaches. By the time Hitler realized he was wrong, it was too late. The Allied armies had gotten off the beach in Normandy and the road to Paris lay before them. After Hitler finally sent in his troops, the battle of northern France was bloody and terrible, but it ended in a disastrous German rout -- and the Germans' long occupation of northern France ended with it. I'm Russell Baker. Goodnight.  Episode number: 1 2 3
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