she had a husband, sumner jackson, and a 15-year-old son, philip jackson. by deciding to use 11 avenue foch as a place where the resistance can meet, she was risking not only her life, but her husband and her son's life. but she was still prepared to do so. august 1944, this is a photograph taken at number 72 avenue foch. it was taken by the great french photographer, one of the founding members of magnum. he was in paris on the 25th of august, 1944 when it was liberated by french second armored division and americans. let's not forget that, the fourth infantry division that fought in the heart of paris on the 25th of august, 1944. armored --ue, what where armored tanks rolled, he went into the offices of the gestapo and he took a shot of the polished boots of the senior ss officials. and it shows the papers been discarded, the haste with which the gestapo had left paris after 150 days and nights of occupation. in late may of 1944, literally just a couple weeks before d-day, there is a knock on the front door. the knock on the front door from -- finally cam

he was in sumner jackson's office. he took him back to his home at july 1943.oche in it appears jackson helped several other down allied fliers to return to spain. this is the only documented evidence i can find of joe manos. he was part of the escape line that helped many others to spain. summer 1943, the war against the ssn -- of the ss and gestapo war against the resistance, they know the major aid from france at health for any an hour -- any allied invasion would come from the french resistance. come atw it's going to some point. maybe even in the fall of 1943. the gestapo and ss were determined to keep the french resistance from helping them so they went to war with the resistance. anybody that was involved in the resistance and use all kinds of tactics to do so. here you have number 84. summer 1943, his empire has grown from number 72 to number 74 and also number 76. you have here a senior ss officer who becomes one of the most successful spies of the third reich. capturing sotain agents, special operation executi

now, in 1941, when sumner jackson became involved helping downed allied airmen, when he became a resistant, though he didn't join the resistance, even in 1944, on the eve of d-day, there was a very small percentage of french people who were in the resistance. after the war, the mythology, the popular stories are that everybody i knew was in the resistance. it's not true. it's absolutely not true. there is a very large grey area that people occupied during occupation. they did not want to actively support the nazis, especially when things were going in the germans' way at the beginning of the war. but even in the eve of liberation, there were still very few frenchmen and women involved in the resistance. when they were, they were violent and effective to some extent. but they had no weapons. the reason why they had no weapons is, we made damn sure that they had no weapons. the communists were the ones who would walk up behind you, who were german on the metro, take a single pistol and shoot you. you are a communist if you did that. you are ideologically motivated. we didn't want those guys

now, in 1941, when sumner jackson became involved helping downed allied airmen, when he became a resistant who were in the resistance. after the war, the mythology, the popular stories are that everybody i knew was in the resistance. it's not true. it's absolutely not true. there is a very large grey area that people occupied during occupation. they did not want to actively support the nazis, especially when things were going in the germans' way at the beginning of the war. but even in the eve of liberation, there were still very few frenchmen and women involved in the resistance. when they were, they were violent and effective to some extent. but they had no weapons. the reason why they had no weapons is, we made damn sure that they had no weapons. the communists were the ones who would walk up behind you, who were german on the metro, take a single pistol and shoot you. you are a communist if you did that. you are ideologically motivated. we didn't want those guys running france. in fact, when i went to paris, people couldn't believe it when i said, you know, can you imagine normandy, 50