Combat (Resistance)

Combat (German fight ) was a French Resistance group that emerged in 1941 from the merger of two older Resistance groups: In July 1940, Henri Frenay founded the group “ Vérité ” (Truth) in Marseille , which published an underground magazine and Undertook raids. The other " Liberté " (dt. Freedom) was founded by university professors of the political right: François de Menthon , Pierre-Henri Teitgen and Coste-Floret . You also belonged to Georges Bidault .

In 1941 Henri Frenay took over the leadership of the Combat movement. For a time it became the most important Resistance group in urban France. From December 1941, she published the underground newspaper Combat at her secret headquarters in Lyon , to which Albert Camus also played a key role. This underground newspaper last had a circulation of 300,000 copies.

Although Frenay initially rejected Jean Moulin sent by General Charles de Gaulle as authoritarian, Moulin was able to

Henri Frenay's Combat Movement
Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie from the Liberation movement and
Jean-Pierre Lévy from the Franc Tireur

To prepare for the landing of the Allies, convince them of the necessity of unification in the Mouvements unis de la Résistance (MUR; German United Movements of the Resistance).

Later, in May 1943, Moulin joined the Mouvements Unis de Resistance with

Pierre Villons Movement Front National

Pierre Brossolette's Comité d'action socialiste

Charles Delestraint's Armée Secrète

the organization civile et militaire

of the Libération Nord movement

of the Ceux de la Resistance movement

of the Ceux de la Liberation movement

to create the Conseil national de la Résistance CNR, the National Council of Resistance.

literature

François Marcot, Bruno Leroux, Christine Levisse-Touze (eds.): Dictionnaire historique de la Résistance. Resistance intérieure et France libre. Robert Laffont, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-221-09997-4 , pp. 117 ff.

Web links

Combat on gedenkorte-europa.eu, the homepage of Gedenkorte Europa 1939–1945 , accessed on April 15, 2016