Liberation North

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Liberation-Nord was one of the most important resistance organizations in the northern occupied zone of France during the Second World War . It was one of the eight large networks that formed the National Council of the Resistance ( Conseil national de la Résistance ).

history

Originally an underground newspaper, Liberation-Nord gradually developed into a resistance movement between December 1940 and November 1941. It emerged from the non-communist trade union movements of the CGT ( Confédération générale du travail ) , the CFTC ( Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens ) and the SFIO ( Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière ) and was formed around Christian Pineau and the group of the Manifesto des douze ( Manifesto of the Twelve ).

In 1942 two networks of the resistance movement were founded, which emerged from the Liberation-Nord under the command of the Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action :

In early 1943, under the impetus of the philosopher Jean Cavaillès and Colonel Zarapoff , Liberation-Nord began to organize isolated armed resistance groups under their roof. Represented by the Conseil national de la Résistance , where the latter was able to exercise the influence of the SFIO, the Liberation-Nord refused to participate in the Mouvements unis de la Résistance (MUR) in December 1943 .

With the organization civile et militaire (OCM) remaining in the nymph stage , the Liberation-Nord did not succeed after the war in creating a large workers' party out of the Resistance together with the SFIO.

Important members

  • Robert Duterque
  • Jean-Baptiste Daviais
  • Pierre Boursicot
  • Jean Cavaillès
  • Michel Collinet
  • Marcel Mérigonde
  • Christian Pineau
  • François Tanguy-Prigent
  • Colonel Zarapoff
  • Jean Aimé Caillau

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