European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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We knew each other from the times of the Communist Youth Movement.
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Our group did not only consist of young communists, but of young Catholics as well,
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or of people that hadn’t been affiliated to any group.
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His death affected me enormously.
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The day he was arrested by the Nazis, along with his father, we had separated just a quarter of an hour earlier.
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The collaborating government, the mayor of the municipality, had already been arrested by the resistance
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and we were supposed to organize the take-over of the City Hall
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and the establishment of the Liberation Committee for the following day.
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This all happened on August 20th 1944. The Germans were still in Nanterre.
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Louis Meunier, his father and I had met to ensure the security of the event.
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