if you are going to make a film,
be sure to tell the local population, in this case the
southern French city of Nice that when they wake up the town had not been taken
over by Nazis,
on Monday passersby were left speechless when an enormous
Nazi banner was draped over the Palais de la Prefecture, a government building
in Nice's Old Town, a witness said that people were unsure if it was intended
as a joke or to deliberately provoke the bystanders, ‘as soon as two men
appeared on the roof to unfurl the banner, a crowd started to shout,’ the
bystander told the Nice-Matin newspaper, ‘obviously it caused some strong
feelings’, still it was not without at least some humour as German tourist
Mathias and his son Tobias later sent pictures of it to their friends back home
joking: "We are back!" later in the day, local authorities were
forced to issue a statement to reassure locals that the banner was nothing more
than a prop for a film being made in the area, which is based on World War Two
and directed by Canadian Christian Dugay, the film, entitled "Le sac de
billes" (A Bag of Marbles), is based on the memoirs of Joseph Joffo who
fled Nazi-occupied Paris as a child, the Palais de la Prefecture in Nice was
being used as a replacement for the nearby Hotel Excelsior, so note to
filmmakers, put the sign up first!
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