European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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It might seem pretentious but we think we have not finished our work.
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We need to talk to young people, guide them for the future, show them the importance of being brotherly.
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I don’t answer all questions. When they ask me how many Germans I killed I won’t answer.
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I don’t think it is interesting.
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During war there is one essential rule:
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If I don’t shoot first, he will shoot me. He didn’t do anything to me and I didn’t do anything to him.
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I don’t know him. He has a family; I have a family as well. Why then, do we kill each other?
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Why? Because the ones that decide on war are not the ones that fight it.
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Liberation; Exchange of prisoners
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Nanterre was liberated on the following day, August 21st, 1944.
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The German officers all left for Mont Valérien, the only place they felt safe.
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The Liberation Committee was installed.
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Mont Valérien is a fort from the time before the Paris Commune.
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There the resistance fighters were shot. Each time the resistance attacked the German troops.
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General Stüplinen ordered for every killed German, one hundred resistance fighters should be executed.
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We identified 1015 corpses of people who had been shot between 1941 and 1944.
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It was an execution place.
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The Germans couldn’t move anymore, as all the streets leading there were barricaded by the resistance.
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Some Germans were in the Paris water works. They had intended to blow up the water basins, but they were caught.
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So there was a prisoner exchange between those Germans
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