A Tree note: The following few chapters are illustrations posted by Laetitia. I’m not sure of the artist’s name. Your help is welcomed…
Wednesday, June 7, 1944…
It is early in the morning. Messaline is sleeping in and Judith is starting to get dressed. She has only her bra, panties, and stocking on when a German officer and a soldier burst into her room. They bind her wrists behind her back and lead her out to the town’s square. Judith sees the gallows and realizes they have something besides rough sex in mind for her.
“What is this about” Judith demands. Her voice covers the fear inside her.
“What does it look like” the officer asks. “We have it on strong sources that you are a member of the French Resistance. So let us see how bravely you die for a free France!”
They know about Messa and me! I hesitate but the two men push me towards the gallows!
On faltering legs I am led to the gallows and the noose is placed around my neck. The coarse rope scratches my skin as I am pushed up the ladder. The officer paws me as he forces me up the ladder while the soldier pulls the rope.
“You cannot do this to me! I have not been charged with a crime and I have not been tried” I cry desperately.
“You have been tried, convicted, and condemned to hang to death. You should be happy to die for your lost cause!”
I have slept with both of these men but it was for my cause. Now the disgusting krauts are groping my breasts and bottom as they force me up the ladder as they ready to hang me!
I am nearly naked with my lace lingerie hardly covering my privates. I am on the third step of the rickety ladder when I beg them not to hang me.
The officer laughs and says “I am in no hurry to see you hanged. You stand on the ladder as long as you can.”
Beneath my stockings I feel the rough rungs of the ladder tearing at the soles of my feet. I begin to fall back and the ladder shifts.
My goddess, I am about to hang!
-Judith
Wednesday, June 7, 1944…
It is early in the morning. Messaline is sleeping in and Judith is starting to get dressed. She has only her bra, panties, and stocking on when a German officer and a soldier burst into her room. They bind her wrists behind her back and lead her out to the town’s square. Judith sees the gallows and realizes they have something besides rough sex in mind for her.
“What is this about” Judith demands. Her voice covers the fear inside her.
“What does it look like” the officer asks. “We have it on strong sources that you are a member of the French Resistance. So let us see how bravely you die for a free France!”
They know about Messa and me! I hesitate but the two men push me towards the gallows!
On faltering legs I am led to the gallows and the noose is placed around my neck. The coarse rope scratches my skin as I am pushed up the ladder. The officer paws me as he forces me up the ladder while the soldier pulls the rope.
“You cannot do this to me! I have not been charged with a crime and I have not been tried” I cry desperately.
“You have been tried, convicted, and condemned to hang to death. You should be happy to die for your lost cause!”
I have slept with both of these men but it was for my cause. Now the disgusting krauts are groping my breasts and bottom as they force me up the ladder as they ready to hang me!
I am nearly naked with my lace lingerie hardly covering my privates. I am on the third step of the rickety ladder when I beg them not to hang me.
The officer laughs and says “I am in no hurry to see you hanged. You stand on the ladder as long as you can.”
Beneath my stockings I feel the rough rungs of the ladder tearing at the soles of my feet. I begin to fall back and the ladder shifts.
My goddess, I am about to hang!
-Judith