Liberation Sud

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The Resistance Group Liberation , known as Liberation Sud to distinguish it from the completely independent Resistance Group Libération Nord , was made up of people of different origins in 1941 after the German occupation during the Second World War in the initially unoccupied southern zone of France - under the puppet government of the Vichy regime founded by Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie , Lucie and Raymond Aubrac . Some were close to the former Popular Front or belonged to the trade unions .

The Liberation included the CGT members Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont and Alfred Malleret-Joinville or the CFTC member Yvon Morandat . Intellectuals like Jean Cavaillès also joined the group. With the support of Daniel Mayer and SFIO , who went underground , the Liberation Sud group grew rapidly. Although the group existed in seven regions of the South Zone, its regional focus was in Lyon and Toulouse .

It began with the publication of the underground newspaper Liberation in July 1941 . In the beginning, besides the production of the newspaper, the focus was on organizing false papers, social welfare and political actions. Later, at the suggestion of Raymond Aubrac, the military organization with Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont was added. While the first edition of the underground newspaper started with 10,000 copies, it grew over time to 200,000 per edition and became one of the most important underground newspapers next to the Combat of the resistance group of the same name . From 1942 until his arrest in 1944, Louis Martin-Chauffier was the editor-in-chief of the paper. From August 21, 1944, it was published daily until it was discontinued in 1964.
The writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July took over its title for the magazine Liberation, which they founded in 1973 .

In February 1942, Emmanuel d'Astier traveled to London to establish ties with the Free France Charles de Gaulle and the rest of the Resistance. De Gaulle urged that the negotiations led by Jean Moulin on his behalf to unite the three groups operating in the southern zone,

resulted in the establishment of the Mouvements Unis de Résistance (MUR).

In May 1943 Jean Moulin finally achieved that in addition to the three groups mentioned above

together with the Resistance groups from the northern zone

the Conseil national de la Résistance (CNR; dt National Resistance Council), a kind of resistance parliament in the underground.

In doing so, they documented the will that the internal Resistance and the external France libre committee formed the "France combattante", the fighting France, in contrast to the collaborating France of the Vichy regime .

At the same time, this underground parliament strengthened de Gaulle politically by accepting his supreme command and refusing to subordinate General Henri Giraud . With the admission of Emmanuel d'Astiers to the Comitée français pour la Liberation National (CFLN) in November 1943 in Algiers as Commissioner for Home Affairs, the importance of liberation was recognized.

Some other members of the Liberation Sud resistance group

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