European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Nanterre was liberated on the following day, August 21st, 1944.
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The German officers all left for Mont Valérien, the only place they felt safe.
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The Liberation Committee was installed.
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Mont Valérien is a fort from the time before the Paris Commune.
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There the resistance fighters were shot. Each time the resistance attacked the German troops.
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General Stüplinen ordered for every killed German, one hundred resistance fighters should be executed.
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We identified 1015 corpses of people who had been shot between 1941 and 1944.
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It was an execution place.
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The Germans couldn’t move anymore, as all the streets leading there were barricaded by the resistance.
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Some Germans were in the Paris water works. They had intended to blow up the water basins, but they were caught.
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So there was a prisoner exchange between those Germans
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and the last prisoners the Germans had taken, and had no nerve to shoot.
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That is how we found out exactly what had happened to Louis Meunier.
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Back to the Nazis in Mont Valérien: They refused to give themselves up to the resistance.
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One of them said they would only give themselves up to the regular army.
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Our commander went to see Colonel Rémy from the Leclerc Division,
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who had been quarantined in the Bois de Boulogne with his brigade.
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Colonel Rémy went up to the fort and they gave themselves in.
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I didn’t have much time to enjoy the liberation.
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During the transition period, I was responsible for the security of Raymond Barbet,
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