European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

They would let us in. We’d arrive at different times.

But then there was also the need to hide the material, the mimeograph, the typewriter etc…

We had to be careful with all of that.

There were various newspaper publications in the Rouen region,

talking about the number of political activists being arrested. One had to be very careful.

We had a certain amount of support in the population.

Some people said we shouldn’t do that, or when we were arrested, they’d say:

“They shouldn’t have done that”, but others did support us, some of them very quietly because they were afraid.

If the police detected a connection between a person and well-known political activist, you could be arrested.

It was dangerous for us as well as for the people we’d give the material to - if they were caught by the police etc. It was very difficult.