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* [[Shown Their Work]]: About drink on at least one instance. There was a real cocktail called a "French 75" once fashionable in allied officer's clubs in WWI. It is made of gin, lemon juice, and sugar over ice, with champagne on top, garnished with cherry and lemon peel. It is named after the 75mil piece that was once the standby of the French artillery.
**Ironically it is ordered by a German officer despite the fact that some of his party were likely on the business end of the other kind of French 75 in the previous war. No accounting for taste.
***Not only was it a [[Crazy Prepared|good idea]] for someone like a Jew to stock up on jewelry if they might end up having to go on the lam in the turbulent and poisonous ideological politics before [[World War 2]] but Jews were forbidden by German law to take money with them across the borders. Jewelry is easy to hide and carries a lot of cash in a tiny mass and a quick visit to a money changer(if need be an illegal one) could get a lot. Thus the point about inflation in jewelry that the smuggler makes to a refugee trying to negotiate a passage is well taken.
***The local government was miserly with work permits for protectionistic reasons. Refugees did spend a disproportionate amount of time crowding the [[Local Hangout|Local Hangouts]] because there was not much else to do.
**[[Reality Is Unrealistic|It is perfectly possible]] for Gestapo agents to be roaming round Paris giving instructions before the German army arrived. Paris was an open city(see [[The Laws and Customs of War]]).
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