European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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who was responsible for the resistance of the railroad workers.
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He had organized the insurrection-strike of the railroad workers on August 10th, 1944, sparking the nation-wide insurrection.
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I was responsible for his safety, as still collaborators and other dangers were lurking.
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I myself went up to the fort on August 28th, August 29th.
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We were organized militarily
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and I had obtained the rank of lieutenant in the resistance and was given a section of 50 resistance fighters.
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We called it the Louis Meunier section in his memory.
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What I felt at the liberation? Well, a lot of joy!
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It was like a big party.
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Even those who hadn’t done anything or maybe taken advantage of the situation now called themselves resistance fighters.
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It was a huge joy to have liberated France, even though it wasn’t quite over.
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Alsace-Lorraine was still occupied; there was still the submarine basis in the enclave of La Rochelle.
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But really it was liberation.
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We had the satisfaction of saying that we had won.
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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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