Service du Travail Obligatoire (Compulsory Work Service)− A parenthesis of several months
Louis Pesnel was born in 1922. He was still at school when the war started. When the Germans arrived in Normandy in 1940 the young man went back to his family’s in Montfarville. He then worked at sea with his father, and in the fields with his mother. The first part of this testimony is the result of an inquiry conducted in 1995 about the STO.