European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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One of our comrades had a big garage at his parent’s house.
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There was a little pavilion where we installed our material.
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With our manual duplicator, we produced leaflets.
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Our leaders gave us these announcements for resistance and we had to reproduce leaflets and distribute them.
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We usually did that at night, which was very dangerous
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because there was a curfew from 22h00 until 6h00 in the morning.
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One was only allowed outside with an Ausweis (pass) issued by the police or by the Germans.
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It’s strange when you think about it: nowadays our mailboxes are filled with advertisement,
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