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This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by Graham Lewis for Three Counties Action on behalf of Madame Aline Audibert and has been added to the site with her permission. Mme Audibert fully understands the site鈥檚 terms and conditions.

As so many men had been called up to the army in 1939 and 1940, there was a shortage of labour everywhere in France. When the armistice was signed with Germany, the baker in our village of Les Vans was made a prisoner of war in Germany and his wife was unable to make bread for their shop. She was able to sell bread but not make it, and needed a man for this. She was unable to find anyone. At the request of this lady the German army unit occupying the area sent her one of its soldiers who was a baker by trade. His name was Willi. He worked in the bakery of Les Vans until almost the end of the war when he became a prisoner of war himself.

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