European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We had a certain amount of support in the population. In the beginning there was mostly fear.
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When we handed out leaflets, the people would scatter. Later on things changed.
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When the police arrived, they would form groups to hinder the police from passing. It made it possible for us to escape.
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In Nanterre, at the place of the current university, there was a camp called “aviation camp”,
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that had been occupied by the Germans.
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It was used to recuperate material, like pieces of downed airplanes. Soviet prisoners worked there.
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One day a comrade went to visit his wife in the hospital
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and was approached for a cigarette by a young POW speaking no French.
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Our comrade told him to come back the next day with other clothes and we helped him escape.
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It was risky, but we took risks every day.
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The young man is on that picture I showed you, along with Louis Meunier and me.
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He joined a ‘maquis’. To our great regret we never found out what happened to him.
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We had the possibility to help him escape, so we did.
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Organization, structure, persecution
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In the beginning, we all knew each other.
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When the first people were arrested we realized we needed a new form of organization.
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This was not specific for Nanterre. We were not used to working or organizing ourselves undercover.
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The instructions we got from the Communist Youth or from the Communist Party were to organize in triangles.
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We were to get together in groups of three comrades.
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In case of an arrest we could only give away two names under torture.
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