European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I had a hernia, which in reality didn’t bother me.
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But I arrived there as if in pain, saying that my doctor had told me I needed to be operated on immediately.
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The major answered: “Don’t worry. We have very good surgeons in Germany, go ahead.”
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I then got in touch with my superiors.
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It was decided that I would be sent to a ‘maquis’ in Corèse.
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Upon arrival in Brives, I was to contact the comrades.
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When I passed the demarcation line, I was not able to establish contact.
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The ‘maquis’ was under siege, after having derailed a German train filled with deportees.
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I had already been controlled several times by the police with my false identification documents
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and realized that the situation was getting dangerous.
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So I returned to Nanterre and then was sent to work in a factory in the department of the Marne.
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One day a few comrades and I – we were producing concrete platforms – sent a concrete wagon into a German barrack.
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We did not wait for our wages… We left immediately and I returned to Nanterre where I stayed undercover.
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I had a little basement room. My father did not know where I was.
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He thought I had left for Germany, because when the Nazis and Pétain police
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did not find the person they were looking for, they took their family along.
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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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