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Much later, he would go down in history as the President of France. At just 23 years old, Mitterrand served as a sergent-chef (staff sergeant) on the French Maginot Line during World War II. Mitterrand was taken prisoner by the Germans just a few weeks after Hitler’s Germany invaded France, on June 18, 1940.  \nFRANÇOIS MITTERRAND  \nI was a member of Commando 1515 in the village of Schaala. It was a very diverse group. It was made up of people who were considered intellectuals, strangely enough: Spanish refugees, volunteers from the French army, Jews, priests, teachers, and so on. I have fond memories of that commando in Schaala; there was a spirit of brotherhood there.  \nNARRATOR  \nDespite the relatively decent conditions in Schaala, Mitterrand had only one thing on his mind from day one: escape.  \nFRANÇOIS MITTERRAND  \nTo escape! It was almost an obsession. I could not bear to be constrained by blind forces. Linking my fate to the vagaries of a war whose duration I could not influence went against one of my deepest convictions: that a door should always be open to the unpredictable. I suffered the loss of my freedom as if it were a physical ailment. Yes, it was an affliction of the body just as much asan affliction of the soul.  \nI believe that freedom is like the air we breathe. I had to breathe. I missed  \nFrance.  \nNARRATOR  \nMitterrand spent nearly six months preparing for his first escape. In a corridor through which he had to pass regularly, several large maps of Germany were hanging. Every time he passed by them, he copied one or two square centimeters of the maps onto a piece of paper. From these fragments, he created a road map showing him the way to the Swiss border. Freedom lay 620 kilometers away.  \nIn the early morning of March 5, 1941, Mitterrand and a fellow prisoner named Xavier Leclerc slipped through a section of the barbed wire fence where the mesh gave way slightly—and vanished into the countryside.  \nThe fact that the Germans did not immediately notice their absence was thanks to two men in the camp: the work supervisor Bernard Finifter and the interpreter Jean Munier. Both men ensured that the fugitives’ absence went unnoticed until the evening. This gave the two escapees a twelve-hour head start—a precious window of opportunity.  \nSince Mitterrand and Leclerc hardly spoke any German, they tried to avoid encountering anyone along the way.  \nFRANÇOIS MITTERRAND  \nFor the first three days, we walked across fields and hills. This was no easy task, as the terrain was steep and the ground was drenched. We marched only at night and hid in the woods during the day. We lived like this for three weeks.  \nNARRATOR  \nWhen the men made the mistake of venturing out during the day, they were caught—just a few kilometers from the Swiss border.  \nFRANÇOIS MITTERRAND  \nIt was Sunday morning, and we passed by the church in Egesheim, a small village in southern Württemberg. A few parishioners were making their way there. At that point, we took a wrong turn. After two kilometers, we turned back and once again passed the same village and the same church.  \nDaybreak had come by then. The worshippers, who were just leaving the service, were puzzled by our back-and-forth. Their curiosity grew when they  \nsaw us climbing the hill, covered with snow and leafless trees, that towered over the village. The villagers were seized by a commotion, the reason for which we understood. People armed with sticks gathered and began chasing us. It was an uneven struggle. We were tired; they were not.They quickly closed in on us. Xavier Leclerc began fighting with the first of the pursuers who was trying to stop him. He called out to me: “Wait, let’s give it a try. We’ll see. We’re almost at the border; all is lost yet.” In fact, though, we were lost indeed.  \nNARRATOR  \nMitterrand and Leclerc were arrested and taken to","cbCaik0QGktnxleZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik0QGktnxleZ","pdf",123339,"English","# Freedom is the air you breathe\n## Mitterrand’s capture and preparation\n## First escape attempt and recapture\n## Second and third escape attempts","[{\"question\":\"What motivated Mitterrand to escape German captivity?\",\"answer\":\"He treated freedom as something essential, like air to breathe, and experienced captivity as a physical and spiritual affliction. From the first day, he focused on escape.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Mitterrand prepare for his first escape?\",\"answer\":\"Over nearly six months, he copied small sections from large maps of Germany onto paper during regular corridor passes. He used these fragments to build a route to the Swiss border.\"},{\"question\":\"What role did civilians and others play in Mitterrand’s later escape attempts?\",\"answer\":\"The text notes camp helpers whose actions delayed recognition of the fugitives. For the third attempt, French civilians helped him return to occupied France and then reach the unoccupied part of the country.\"}]","Rudolstadt - Freedom is the air you breathe | PDF"]