- general Alarm with the horn. The man of day before to the link howls in the gate voice: " Swing-Low! the guy! Fritz are in the Arsenal! Swing-Low! Swing-Low! Schleus are there! They are everywhere! They mitraillent all! Swing-Low! Name of God! that pète at the Base! that pète with the short-nap cloth of the bottom of Venus! Swing-Low the guy! Swing-Low the guy! ".
They are Waffen SS of armoured Division Das Reich which invests the Base. (same Division Das Reich including/understanding a certain number of " In spite of us " French who will go celebrates two years later by the massacre of Oradour on Glane).
05h30.
The transmitter short waves of Strasborg repeats without wearying the message: " Scuttle the fleet "... " Scuttle the fleet "...
La Galissonnière
At the time of the " suicide " of the Fleet of open sea based in Toulon, 75 ships are scuttled (3 buildings of line, 7 cruisers, 30 destroyers and destroyers, 16 submarines, 1 transport of plane and 18 auxiliary buildings).
France, before the beginning of the war, had the most beautiful navy of the world! France could be proud of its " Royal ".
