1975
invading armies and rang out a warning. On a plaque behing the Town Hall one reads 'in the course of its glorious liberation
by the Allies, this town was 90 percent destroyed'.
That's fairly typical, too.
| Béthune 1975 |
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| Béthune is a fairly typical town of the mining area of
Northern France, with its bell-tower from which the townsfolk watched for invading armies and rang out a warning. On a plaque behing the Town Hall one reads 'in the course of its glorious liberation by the Allies, this town was 90 percent destroyed'. That's fairly typical, too. |
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