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Witness to an Execution
On August 25, 1944, Allied forces and French Resistance fighters liberated Paris after four desperate years of German control and a week of intense street battles. French citizens celebrated like never before ... but they also doggedly hunted down those who had collaborated with the Nazis. On September 2, 1944, legendary LIFE photographer Carl Mydans and John Obsborne, a war correspondent for LIFE and Time, were in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps, when they witnessed a grim, bloody proceeding: A group of Resistance fighters (known as Maquis) gathered to execute a half-dozen Nazi collaborators who had worked for the despised, feared Milice -- the Vichy police. Mydans' unflinching photos and Osborne's haunting description of the event -- some of which is excerpted here -- ran in the October 2, 1944 issue of LIFE. Pictured: Armed Resistance fighters march to the execution site. WARNING: The photos that follow are graphic and disturbing.
2/17：
A Nazi Collaborator Is Bound to a Post
In this photograph, the first of six members of the ruthless Milice -- who served as the police force for the Nazi collaborationist Vichy government -- is tied to a post by guards moments before being shot to death by a firing squad. Carl Mydans' lens is one of the last things he will see. As John Osborne, LIFE's on-the-scene writer, described the moment: "The place chosen for these first legal executions in Southern France was an open lot beside a brick factory in Grenoble's extreme outskirt. In the same lot, the Germans had shot 23 [French] patriots in July and it was deliberately selected for the Milice's executions. But, said the morning paper, Les Allobroges, they were to be shot in a different part of the lot. It would not be fitting for the blood of traitors to sully the ground hallowed by partriots' blood."
3/17：
One Last Look
"Six posts had been driven into the ground in front of the factory wall," Osborne wrote. "Just south of them, while the crowd massed and the rain drenched the ground, stood a squad of Maquis selected to carry out the execution." And then the prisoners arrived. "The van door opened," wrote Osborne, "and the six doomed [collaborators] stepped out, each accompanied by a Maquis with a hand on the prisoner's arm."
4/17：
Awaiting His Fate
Osborne described the crowd that was gathering: "They might have been hurrying to a circus. They laughed, shouted greetings, raced each other and, at the execution spot, good-naturedly elbowed and jammed each other aside as they struggled for a vantage point."
5/17：
A Kind of Courage
The collaborators knew what awaited them but, as Osborne describes it, "All six of the doomed walked straight to the posts without help or a struggle, wheeled and stood with their backs to the posts while the Maquis tied their hands, securely at kidney level. The youngest of them was 19, the oldest was 26, and the two youngest had been assigned the ends of the post row. They were anything but heroes; they had served against France and some of them had been caught bearing arms against Frenchmen on liberation day, but none could deny that they bore death well. Not one slumped, not one head wavered or turned from the firing squad."
6/17：
Out of Time
"When I first saw the 10 men and boys in the courtroom dock at this trial," Osborne remembered, "I wanted to cry. They looked so young, wretched, unshaven, yet at the same time evil in their dirt and misery."
7/17：
The Youngest Collaborater, Tied up and Waiting
"I particularly watched the 19-year-old. . . [T]his boy looked toward the sky, just above the heads of the firing squad, as though he would never get his fill of the rain and the Alpine hills looming beyond the town. He was standing so when, without audible warning or signal, the executioners fired. They all seemed to be aiming at the chest or heart, but I couldn't be certain. They fired two volleys. The boy I was particuarly watching heaved upward, fell against the post, head down at last."
8/17：
The Moment of Their Death
All at once, each member of the firing squad pulled his trigger twice. LIFE photographer Carl Mydans reported that the blasts caused his camera to shake.
9/17：
And Then it Was Done
"At that instant," Osborne wrote, referring to the two volleys of shots, "the first five bodies, looking north from where I stood, seemed to fall slowly, slowly, slowly in dreadful unison. One still stood erect -- the boy at the other end. His hands must have been tied very tightly to the pole because his back was straight and his head had barely nodded toward his killers."
10/17：
The Youngest Collaborator, Now Dead
11/17：
Fallen
12/17：
All Over
13/17：
Crime and Punishment
Osborne describes how the six who were executed were tried in a courtroom as a group of 10; the other four were released for lack of evidence.
14/17：
Rough Justice
Osborne: "It was easy to agree with the [collaborators'] chief defender, Pierre Guy, that France would be harming only herself if she killed them now."
15/17：
Coup de Grace
Osborne details the final violent act: "Actually in the instant of the last volley but seemingly after an eternity, Maquis officers ran with long strides toward the stakes, fired one pistol shot into each head. By then the boy at my end was almost on the ground, his still-tied hands just off the ground. The next four sagged far down their stakes, and the body at the extreme northern stake had at last begun its slow slide to earth. Within a minute after the coup de grace the hands had been cut free from the stakes and the bodies were prone. From a truck, men brought six plain wooden coffins which looked like pine." Pictured: A Maquis officer gives the coup de grace to the head of the third Nazi collaborationist.
16/17：
A Plain Pine Coffin
Only seven minutes after the collaborators stepped out of the van that transported them from the jail, they are laid in their coffins.
17/17：
After the Execution, the Crowd Surges
Immediately after the bodies were put in the coffins, the crowd surged, yelling "Beast! Scum!" while the soldiers tried to hold them back. Osborne's final words on the executions he and photographer Mydans witnessed were reflective: "What you have here and elsewhere," Osborne wrote, "are little people trapped by fate and their own failings, very few of the big shots. Everyone in France understands that the first grabbed are the first killed, if there is reasonable evidence of personal guilt. I think the test will come when the really responsible collaborators and police heads are caught. France and her new rulers will be under awful blame if only the little ones are killed."
1/17：
Witness to an Execution
On August 25, 1944, Allied forces and French Resistance fighters liberated Paris after four desperate years of German control and a week of intense street battles. French citizens celebrated like never before ... but they also doggedly hunted down those who had collaborated with the Nazis. On September 2, 1944, legendary LIFE photographer Carl Mydans and John Obsborne, a war correspondent for LIFE and Time, were in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps, when they witnessed a grim, bloody proceeding: A group of Resistance fighters (known as Maquis) gathered to execute a half-dozen Nazi collaborators who had worked for the despised, feared Milice -- the Vichy police. Mydans' unflinching photos and Osborne's haunting description of the event -- some of which is excerpted here -- ran in the October 2, 1944 issue of LIFE. Pictured: Armed Resistance fighters march to the execution site. WARNING: The photos that follow are graphic and disturbing.
2/17：
A Nazi Collaborator Is Bound to a Post
In this photograph, the first of six members of the ruthless Milice -- who served as the police force for the Nazi collaborationist Vichy government -- is tied to a post by guards moments before being shot to death by a firing squad. Carl Mydans' lens is one of the last things he will see. As John Osborne, LIFE's on-the-scene writer, described the moment: "The place chosen for these first legal executions in Southern France was an open lot beside a brick factory in Grenoble's extreme outskirt. In the same lot, the Germans had shot 23 [French] patriots in July and it was deliberately selected for the Milice's executions. But, said the morning paper, Les Allobroges, they were to be shot in a different part of the lot. It would not be fitting for the blood of traitors to sully the ground hallowed by partriots' blood."
3/17：
One Last Look
"Six posts had been driven into the ground in front of the factory wall," Osborne wrote. "Just south of them, while the crowd massed and the rain drenched the ground, stood a squad of Maquis selected to carry out the execution." And then the prisoners arrived. "The van door opened," wrote Osborne, "and the six doomed [collaborators] stepped out, each accompanied by a Maquis with a hand on the prisoner's arm."
4/17：
Awaiting His Fate
Osborne described the crowd that was gathering: "They might have been hurrying to a circus. They laughed, shouted greetings, raced each other and, at the execution spot, good-naturedly elbowed and jammed each other aside as they struggled for a vantage point."
5/17：
A Kind of Courage
The collaborators knew what awaited them but, as Osborne describes it, "All six of the doomed walked straight to the posts without help or a struggle, wheeled and stood with their backs to the posts while the Maquis tied their hands, securely at kidney level. The youngest of them was 19, the oldest was 26, and the two youngest had been assigned the ends of the post row. They were anything but heroes; they had served against France and some of them had been caught bearing arms against Frenchmen on liberation day, but none could deny that they bore death well. Not one slumped, not one head wavered or turned from the firing squad."
6/17：
Out of Time
"When I first saw the 10 men and boys in the courtroom dock at this trial," Osborne remembered, "I wanted to cry. They looked so young, wretched, unshaven, yet at the same time evil in their dirt and misery."
7/17：
The Youngest Collaborater, Tied up and Waiting
"I particularly watched the 19-year-old. . . [T]his boy looked toward the sky, just above the heads of the firing squad, as though he would never get his fill of the rain and the Alpine hills looming beyond the town. He was standing so when, without audible warning or signal, the executioners fired. They all seemed to be aiming at the chest or heart, but I couldn't be certain. They fired two volleys. The boy I was particuarly watching heaved upward, fell against the post, head down at last."
8/17：
The Moment of Their Death
All at once, each member of the firing squad pulled his trigger twice. LIFE photographer Carl Mydans reported that the blasts caused his camera to shake.
9/17：
And Then it Was Done
"At that instant," Osborne wrote, referring to the two volleys of shots, "the first five bodies, looking north from where I stood, seemed to fall slowly, slowly, slowly in dreadful unison. One still stood erect -- the boy at the other end. His hands must have been tied very tightly to the pole because his back was straight and his head had barely nodded toward his killers."
10/17：
The Youngest Collaborator, Now Dead
11/17：
Fallen
12/17：
All Over
13/17：
Crime and Punishment
Osborne describes how the six who were executed were tried in a courtroom as a group of 10; the other four were released for lack of evidence.
14/17：
Rough Justice
Osborne: "It was easy to agree with the [collaborators'] chief defender, Pierre Guy, that France would be harming only herself if she killed them now."
15/17：
Coup de Grace
Osborne details the final violent act: "Actually in the instant of the last volley but seemingly after an eternity, Maquis officers ran with long strides toward the stakes, fired one pistol shot into each head. By then the boy at my end was almost on the ground, his still-tied hands just off the ground. The next four sagged far down their stakes, and the body at the extreme northern stake had at last begun its slow slide to earth. Within a minute after the coup de grace the hands had been cut free from the stakes and the bodies were prone. From a truck, men brought six plain wooden coffins which looked like pine." Pictured: A Maquis officer gives the coup de grace to the head of the third Nazi collaborationist.
16/17：
A Plain Pine Coffin
Only seven minutes after the collaborators stepped out of the van that transported them from the jail, they are laid in their coffins.
17/17：
After the Execution, the Crowd Surges
Immediately after the bodies were put in the coffins, the crowd surged, yelling "Beast! Scum!" while the soldiers tried to hold them back. Osborne's final words on the executions he and photographer Mydans witnessed were reflective: "What you have here and elsewhere," Osborne wrote, "are little people trapped by fate and their own failings, very few of the big shots. Everyone in France understands that the first grabbed are the first killed, if there is reasonable evidence of personal guilt. I think the test will come when the really responsible collaborators and police heads are caught. France and her new rulers will be under awful blame if only the little ones are killed."
