France (newspaper)
France ( French. , Dt. : France ) was a French exile - daily newspaper that during the Second World War in London was issued.
The paper was founded after the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht in June 1940 by the French exiles Pierre Comert and Georges Gombault . Editor-in-chief was Louis Lévy , who was also the French representative at the Socialist Vanguard Group . Through Philippe Barrès , the son of Maurice Barrès , the editor-in-chief of Le Matin and Paris-Soir who died in 1923, Stéphane Roussel also joined the group in the same year and subsequently worked as a journalist for France . Roussel, France's first foreign correspondent, was head of the Le Matin correspondent's office in the German capital from 1934 to 1938 . On the occasion of a private stay in London, she was surprised by the start of the war on September 1, 1939. The newspaper, financially supported by the British government, was socialist oriented and took an anti- Gaullist stance. France appeared until the liberation of Paris in the second half of August 1944.
Former Employees
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Wächter: The myth of Gaullism: Heidenkult, historical politics and ideology 1940-1958. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006. ISBN 9783835300231 . P. 149
- ↑ Julian Jackson: France. The Dark Years. 1940-1944 . Oxford University Press 2003, ISBN 978-0191622885 , Chapter 16 The Free French 1940-1942, subsection The National Committee
- ↑ Frédéric Stephan: The concept of Europe in the German and French resistance to National Socialism 1933/40 to 1945 . Dissertation, Historical Institute of the University of Stuttgart, 2002, pp. 91–92. On: uni-stuttgart.de, accessed on March 25, 2017 (PDF file; 1.0 MB)
- ↑ Stéphane Roussel: Les collines de Berlin - Un regard sur l'Allemagne . Éditions Mazarine, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-86374-130-6 . P. 219 ff.
- ↑ Kerstin Pokorny: Stéphane Roussel: From Berlin via London to Bonn ( memento of the original from March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The French foreign correspondents in Bonn and Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer 1949-1963 . Inaugural dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2009. pp. 62–64. From: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on March 25, 2017 (PDF file; 2.6 MB)
