David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

refused. The director of the camp came
up to them in disbelief. Most of the
people in the camp would end up dead
in a gas chamber. In exchange for signing
their names on a piece of paper, to a bit
of patriotic boilerplate, the two men
were getting a free ticket home.
“What is this?” the camp director
shouted at them. “This oath has nothing
in it contrary to your conscience! The
marshal wishes only the good of
France!”
“On at least one point we disagree
with the marshal,” Trocmé replied. “He
delivers the Jews to the Germans....
When we get home we shall certainly
continue to be opposed, and we shall