European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The city was almost empty at the time.
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It was July and Nanterre had been occupied on June 14th, 1940.
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There were very few working factories.
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I got back in touch with my comrades from the Communist Youth Movement and we started…
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how could I best describe it? The people did not understand anything.
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They were suddenly imprisoned instead of in a free country.
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This happened in less than a month.
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The Nazis crossed the French border on May 10th, 1940 and on June 10th they were in Paris.
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Everybody was scared and tried to leave.
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We did not understand how in this country of freedom,
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where we had everything we wanted, self-sufficient country
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(its agriculture and its industry), suddenly nothing was left.
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Ration tickets,
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we were hungry, cold.
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So we felt the need to explain to the people why we were in this situation.
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With this group of young people we were able to assemble, those who had stayed in Nanterre or had come back,
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we produced posters with a children’s printing set. We then pasted them onto the walls.
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They would say: “Out With the Invaders.”
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When we were able to get a duplicator, we started producing leaflets.
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The resistance started to organize itself.
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