Georges Blind, a French resistance fighter, famously smiled at a German firing squad in 1944. This was not a real execution but a staged attempt to break his r

Georges Blind, a French resistance fighter, famously smiled at a German firing squad in 1944. This was not a real execution but a staged attempt to break his resolve and force him to reveal information. It failed , Blind gave them nothing. The choice of location is striking: he was positioned at t…