I wouldn't normally buy a stamp with a swastica on, but these are of interest to me. Toulon on the French Mediterranean coast was the headquarters of the French navy during the war. In 1944 Toulon, like most of France, was occupied by the Nazis. Among the French resistance in Toulon, my hero Jacques-Yves Cousteau. His brother Pierre-Antoine on the other hand was a Nazi sympathiser, who was imprisoned and narrowly escaped being executed for his allegiance. The fact these little bits of paper were in that city at that defining time gives me the shivers .
