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Not all of the comrades that had been in the group with us joined the army afterwards.
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But we had committed ourselves through the entire war.
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I continued because I wanted to avenge Louis. At his funeral we had sworn that we would avenge him.
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That meant to fight the Nazis until the end.
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Preparation of the Liberation day
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Louis Meunier and I were very close. I was also very close to his family.
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We knew each other from the times of the Communist Youth Movement.
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Our group did not only consist of young communists, but of young Catholics as well,
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or of people that hadn’t been affiliated to any group.
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His death affected me enormously.
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The day he was arrested by the Nazis, along with his father, we had separated just a quarter of an hour earlier.
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The collaborating government, the mayor of the municipality, had already been arrested by the resistance
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and we were supposed to organize the take-over of the City Hall
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and the establishment of the Liberation Committee for the following day.
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This all happened on August 20th 1944. The Germans were still in Nanterre.
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Louis Meunier, his father and I had met to ensure the security of the event.
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As I said, we split.
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I went to meet comrades, with whom I went to Pont Neuilly to meet the old mayor of Nanterre,
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Raymond Bardet, who was in the Résistance – he was one of the leaders of the resistance of the railroad workers.
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We were to protect him during his return to the City Hall for the Council of the Liberation Committee next day.
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