Did Ernest Hemingway fight against the nazis?

Question

Did earnest Hemingway hold up in a bar in France during the middle of the occupation during World War II?

Answer 1

The most direct answer is yes and no. Context is everything here. 

In the larger sense of the question, yes, he did work for less than a year in France as a civilian war correspondent (for Collier’s) during WWII (1944-45) but because civilian correspondents weren’t supposed to engage in combat his military record, so to speak, never published any combat accounts despite the fact that his personal correspondence and articles written during that time detailed many combat scenarios in which he was very involved. But most of the time he was an interpreter, someone who knew Paris well and who provided patrol objective guidance to the Maquis. The Maquis (formally Maquis du Mont Mouchet) were civilian “armed resistance fighters” who had been operating in France before the Allied invasion at Normandy in 1944.   

The no part of the answer has more to do with the fact that he didn’t actually take part in any military actions directly related to the liberation of Paris, preceded by a battle that raged from 08.19.44 thru 08.25.44 when the Germans surrendered their primary forces stationed there since June 1940. 

During Hemingway’s time in France during WWII there isn’t any evidence he killed any Germans. He left France 03.06.45 and returned to Cuba via the U.S. 

In December 1948 Hemingway wrote Alfred Rice and said, “I was decorated with the Bronze Star which was the highest piece of junk they could give a civilian and an irregular and was proposed for various worthwhile things which could not be given due to my irregular status and the fact they would contravene the Geneva Convention.” He was awarded the medal at the American Embassy in Havana in June 1947.