The German general who impregnated three imprisoned sisters…
The German general who impregnated three imprisoned sisters… and what he did to them afterward I was 18 when I learned that a woman's body can turn into a battlefield. Not in books, not as a real metaphor. On the skin, in the belly, in the silence that comes afterwards. My name is Mais duoc. I was born in 192 in a village called Saint-Rémy sur Loire, so small that it didn't even appear on military maps. I grew up between vineyards and wheat fields, between Sunday laughter and sung masses. My mother baked bread every morning. My father repaired clocks. My sisters, Aurore and Séverine, were all I knew of unconditional love. Aurore was 19 years old and dreamed of becoming a schoolteacher. Séverine, 21, embroidered wedding dresses that she never wore. I simply wanted time to stop, for the war everyone was talking about to never reach us. But she arrived in June 1942. They came to get us. Not because we were criminals,...