Practice question · True or false
Marc Bloch was shot by the Gestapo for his work in the French Resistance.
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- How did the founder of the Annales school die?
- 1944, near Lyon.
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True
Why
True. Bloch joined the Resistance in his fifties, was captured, tortured and shot in June 1944. The Historian's Craft was left unfinished on his desk, which is why the book that argues most carefully for history as a patient science breaks off mid-sentence.
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