René Sentuc

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René Alphonse Camille Sentuc alias Capitaine Bernard (born August 20, 1900 in Paris ; † December 27, 1984 ) was a French taxi driver , participant in the French Resistance , member of the communist trade union movement and chairman of a people's tribunal , tribunal populaire where he participated in arbitrary trials ( Commission d'Épuration ) in Paris ( Institut dentaire George-Eastman ) made judgments.

Life

Since 1925 he had been a member of the French communist trade union movement , Confédération Générale du Travail Unitaire (CGTU) and the Section française de l'Internationale communiste (SFIC). So he arranged for the coachmen and chauffeurs, cochers, chauffeurs in a union . In 1929 he was a councilor, conseiller municipal of the French city of Malakoff . On May 1, 1941, he was arrested and detained in the internment camps of Châteaubriant and Voves . He managed to escape from the internment camp in Voves on January 9, 1943 disguised as a gendarme. Captured again, he finally escaped through a tunnel on May 5, 1944. For this purpose, prisoners dug a 148 m long tunnel from February 19, 1944, which enabled 42 prisoners to escape on the night of May 5 to 6, 1944. Afterwards the Schutzstaffel (SS) took over the management of the Voves camp. The remaining 406 prisoners were then transported by the SS via Compiègne ( Royallieu concentration camp ) to Neuengamme concentration camp . Only a few survivors came back after the war.

After his escape he joined the Francs-tireurs et partisans (FTPF) and became an assistant to Pierre Georges , known as "Colonel Fabien". He fought against the German occupation of France during the Second World War by the National Socialist Third Reich . After the liberation , La Liberation , he became one of the leaders of the Association of Chateaubriant, l'Amicale de Châteaubriant .

In Paris he carried out many death sentences without observing the rule of law . His actions showed brutal and unscrupulous features. In 1944, a series of arbitrary judgments were pronounced in the former military hospital Institut dentaire George-Eastman and carried out on the spot. More precisely, in the short period between August 20 and September 15, 1944, a large number of people, between 40 and 44 people, were tried in arbitrary trials and fusilated in Paris . Names of the wrongly accused and executed persons include: a. Madeleine Goa, Berthe Verley, Lucienne Cordier, Pierre Pescadère. A criminal prosecution in the Fourth French Republic to clarify the circumstances was initiated on July 7, 1955 but not pursued further.

The Institute dentaire George-Eastman in Paris (contemporary picture) ( Parc de Choisy ).

Sentuc was later deputy mayor , Adjoint au maire of Malakoff. An office that he held until 1971. He remained active in the trade union and stood up for the concerns of taxi drivers.

literature

  • Jean-Marc Berlière, Franck Liaigre: Ainsi finissent les salauds. Séquestrations et executions clandestines dans Paris libéré. Robert Laffont, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-221-12998-2
  • Jean-Marc Berlière, F. Le Goarant de Tromelin: Liaisons dangereuses: miliciens, truands et résistants (été 1944). Librairie académique Perrin, 2013
  • Henri Amouroux : Collabos, Heroes and Traitors, Spiegel 23/1990 [5]
  • Matthew Cobb: Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944. Simon & Schuster UK, London / New York / Sydney / Toronto 2013, ISBN 978-0-85720-317-5 , p. 353

Web links

  • Malakoff: Resistance et Liberation, deux récits [6]
  • Eleven Days in August, by Matthew Cobb - Lewis Jones review, 4. May 2013 The Spectator [7]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amicale Châteaubriant-Voves-Rouillé-Aincourt, amicale-chateaubriant.fr [1]
  2. ↑ (German: French Section of the Communist International); which became the Parti communiste français (German Communist Party of France) in 1922
  3. ↑ Communisme, Edition 90, L'AGE D'HOMME, 2007, ISSN 0751-3496, p. 172
  4. ↑ Jean-Marc Berlière, Franck Liaigre: Ainsi finissent les Salauds. Séquestrations et exécutions clandestines dans Paris libéré Robert Laffont, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-221-12998-2
  5. ^ Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins: Paris brule t'il. Pocket, 2001, ISBN 978-2-266-11501-8
  6. ↑ Nicolas Jacquard: Les purges aveugles de la Libération. Le Parisien , September 15, 2013. [2]
  7. ↑ Les purges aveugles de la Liberation, Le Parisien, September 15, 2013 [3]
  8. ↑ Dominique Richard: Une balle dans la tête et une corde de soie au cou. SUDOUEST, www.sudouest.fr, May 5, 2012 [4]
personal data
SURNAME Sentuc, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sentuc, René Alphonse Camille (full name); Bernard, Capitaine (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French resistance fighter (Résistance), city councilor, tribunal chairman
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1984