![]() He also preserves the memory of that day. At 98, Réveil greets visitors standing, walks up and down stairs and maintains an enviable physique. Did they feel any regret? “A little, but that’s life,” says Edmond Réveil in the first-floor living room of his small house in Meymac, a village of 2,500 inhabitants in the rural, mountainous region of inland France. ![]() Some did not even tell their wives or children. Those who participated in or were present at the execution of 47 unarmed German soldiers, at the end of World War II in the Massif Central in southern France, kept silent all their lives. ![]() It was nothing to be proud of it was better to forget it had ever happened. The secret remained hidden for almost 80 years. ![]()
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