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PDS Fr 5 Collaborat
Vichy - Collaboration Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| un ancien combattant | veteran |
| le gaz | (natural) gas |
| un casse-croûte | a snack |
| un ticket | a ration card |
| un chiffre | a number |
| la croix gammée | the iron cross (swastika) |
| les uniformes vertes | German soldiers |
| les bêtes | domesticated animals |
| un vélo | a bicycle |
| une brouette | a wheelbarrow |
| mentir | to tell a lie |
| les Boches | "Krauts" (pejorative) |
| demi-tour | a U-turn |
| orgueilleux/orgueilleuse | overly proud |
| la débrouillardise | the managing/getting along |
| se chauffer | to warm oneself |
| rationné(e) | rationed |
| suffire | to be sufficient, enough |
| la farine | the flour |
| moudre | to grind (flour) |
| une machine à laver | a washing machine |
| un moulin à farine | a flour mill |
| le savon | the soap |
| la gâle | scabies (a skin parasite) |
| un chirugien | a surgeon |
| un écolier | a student |
| la trahison | the treason |
| la rafle | the round-up |
| la Zone occupée | Occupied Zone |
| la Zone non occupée (la Zone nono) | Unoccupied Zone (also Zone libre) |
| une étoile | a star |
| demeurer (habiter) | to live |
| un cesser le feu | a cease-fire |
| le marché noir | the black market |
| la propagande | the propaganda |
| dénoncer | to denounce |
| la dénonciation | the denunciation |
| un camp d’internement | an internment camp (holding camp) |
| un camp de concentration | a concentration camp (death camp) |
| la déportation | the deportation |
| un(e) déport(e) | a deportee |
| un convoi | a convoy (describes trains used to transport prisonners) |
| un wagon | (train) car |
| la paille | straw |
| un fusil | a rifle |
| aboyer | to bark |
| épouvantable | horrible |
| une baraque | barrack |
| se ranger | to line up |
| tant de | so many |
| le quai | the train platform |
| fin d'un rail | end of the line |
| les barbelés | barbed wire |
| un rang | a row |
| las/lasse | weary |
| une châle | shawl |
| un baluchon | headscarf |
| chauve | bald |
| un marié/une mariée | groom/bride |
| un pensionnat | a boarding school |
| un tailleur | tailor |
| inépuisable | inexhaustable |
| s'entretuer | to kill each other |
| un poupée | doll |
| tant pis | too bad |
| les bois | the woods |
| un rabbin | a rabbi |
| un/e chef de block | block leader |
| un/e kapo | prisoner who worked inside camp |
| la poussière | dust |
| un os | a bone |
| assécher | to dry out |
| une meule | haystack |
| le poil | hair (everything that is not on your head) |
| insuffisant(e) | insufficient |
| soigner | to care for (medically) |
| l’antisémitisme | anti-Semitism |
| la xénophobie | xenophobia |
| la collaboration | the collaboration (working with the Germans) |
| collaborer | to collaborate |
| un collaborateur | a collaborator |
| un collabo | a collaborator (pej.) |
| le recensement | the census |
| la paix | the peace |
| la traité | the treaty |
| un convoi | the convoy |
| le génocide | the genocide |
| l’Aryen | Arian |
| kasher | kosher |
| l’hébreu | Hebrew |
| un Juif / une Juive | a Jew |
| dépouiller | to strip (of goods) |
| expulser | to expel |
| la gare | the train station |
| emporter | to take/carry away |
| l’enfer | hell |
| affronter | to face |
| un coup | a blow |
| la boue | mud |
| une tzigane | gypsy |
| un oeil | an eye |
| le cil | eyelash |
| une patte | leg (animal) |
| la gueule | mouth (animal) |
| une rayure | a stripe |
| un buvard | a drunk |
| une tache | a stain |
| les crocs | jaws/teeth |
| raceler | to drag |
| les manches | sleeves |
| trâiner | to drag |
| les reins | small of the back |
| les fesses | buttocks |
| un caillou | a rock |
| la nuque | nape of the neck |
| la foule | the crowd |
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