Front national (Resistance)

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The Front national (Nationale Front) or Front national de l'indépendance de la France (National Front of the Independence of France) was a French organization of the resistance movement of the Second World War . The organization took its name from the Popular Front (Front Populaire) , a political association of left-wing parties in the late 1930s .

Founded on May 15, 1941 by the French Communist Party ( Jacques Duclos , Pierre Villon ), it became the "political" representative of the armed resistance. They were mainly devoted to propaganda, the production of forged papers, the care of illegal immigrants, but also sabotage . The National Front participated in the National Council of the Resistance Movement (Conseil national de la résistance, CNR) .

During the war the name "Front national" was used for:

• An organ of the "National Front" directorate commission
• Various magazines from the illegal immigrants associated with the resistance movement.
• The name was used by various resistance groups, including ecclesiastical ones, throughout France who resisted the Germans .