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

certainly continue to disobey orders
from the government. How could we
sign this now?”
Finally the prison officials gave up
and sent them home.
Later in the war, when the Gestapo
stepped up their scrutiny of Le Chambon,
Trocmé and Theis were forced to flee.
Theis joined up with the underground
and spent the remainder of the war
ferrying Jews across the Alps to the
safety of Switzerland. (“It was not
reasonable,” he explained to Hallie of
his decision. “But you know, I had to do
it, anyway.”) Trocmé moved from town
to town, carrying false papers. Despite
his precautions, he was arrested in a
police roundup at the Lyon railway