From Louis Menard’s “From the Ashes: A new history of Europe since 1945″ (The New Yorker [28 November 2005]: 168):
[Tony Judt, author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945] notes that France, a country with a population of some forty million, was administered by fifteen hundred Nazis, plus six thousand Germen policemen. A skeleton team sufficed in the Netherlands as well.
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Posted on October 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
Categories: Commonplace Book, history, law, politics
Tags: control, france, germany, government, history, law, politics, security, war
