European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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One out of the three was responsible.
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We formed a sort of spider web, with these triangles, on all levels of the organization.
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That was the structure of the clandestine organization of the Communist Party, which then applied to the French snipers and partisans.
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We structured ourselves by regions and sectors.
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The regions were numbered (I was in region 7) and then there were the sectors.
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Our sector comprised three or four municipalities around Nanterre.
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