European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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While I was undercover, we had very few weapons, a few hand arms.
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My task was to organize an armed group to protect the people who would go to some public place to distribute leaflets or hold a speech.
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The only entertainment that was allowed at the time was going to the movies.
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Before the film itself they showed news/information edited by the Nazis, the French police, the French government.
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That was when we intervened. We occupied the projectionists´ cabin and the directors’ office,
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so that he couldn’t call the police, and one of our comrades, usually Louis Meunier, would get up and speak.
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Our task was to ensure his safety.
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While distributing leaflets, there was always an armed squadron to protect the comrades from the police.
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Slowly the population itself started doing the protecting.
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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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