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Newspapers

Anti-Semitic article in *Le Matin*, a collaborationist newspaper.

La Croix has published a list of senators and representatives who were removed from office because they are Jews.

Unzer Wort, Nov. 1, 1941, headline: “The heroic Soviet Resistance thwarts Nazi plans. The colossal front of the Soviet Union, England, and America, and of all peoples […] will crush the Hitlerite beast.”

Following the execution of 100 hostages by the German authorities, the underground edition of *L’Humanité* dated December 19, 1941, called for resistance against the invader.

The December 9, 1941, edition of *La Croix* reports on the Japanese attacks in the Far East.

On December 15, 1941, *Le Matin*, a collaborationist newspaper, reported on the reprisals ordered by the commander of the German Occupation forces in response to attacks by the Communist Resistance.

The December 16, 1941, issue of *La Croix* reported on the retaliatory measures ordered by Otto von Stülpnagel in response to the attacks carried out by the Communist Resistance.

The collaborationist newspaper *Le Matin*, in its March 5, 1942, edition, reported on the “trial” at the Palais-Bourbon of the young Communist Resistance fighters from the “Bataillons de la Jeunesse.”

First issue (April 1942) of the underground newspaper *J’accuse*, denouncing anti-Semitism and Nazi crimes in Drancy and Compiègne (Fontstalag 122).

On June 1, 1942, the collaborationist newspaper *Le Matin* announced that Jews would be required to wear the yellow star starting on June 7.

The underground newspaper *L’Université libre* (June 11, 1942) denounced anti-Semitism and called on teachers to join the National Liberation Front.

*Pitiwye Zaytung*, a Yiddish newspaper published by the internees at the Pithiviers camp, June 1942.

Fraternité, “a liaison organ for French forces fighting against racist barbarism,” an underground publication in the southern zone. Issue No. 1, February 1942.

First issue (April 1942) of *J’accuse*, an underground newspaper “fighting against racism,” denouncing Nazi barbarism and the arrests and murders of Jews.

Issue No. 61 (June 25, 1942) of *L’Université libre*, an underground newspaper published by the communists G. Politzer, J. Decour, and J. Solomon, calls for the struggle for liberation.

The October 10, 1942, issue of *J’accuse*, “the liaison organ of the French forces against racist barbarism,” published in the Northern Zone by the Mouvement National contre le Racisme (MNCR).

The October 20, 1942, issue of *J’accuse* reported on the reality of the extermination camps and called for “mobilization against forced deportations.”

Unzer Wort condemns the extermination and calls for people to take up arms: “11,000 Jews—men, women, and children—were gassed to death by the Nazi thugs, who used them as test subjects.”

Excerpts from the newspaper *Notre Voix* dated June 20, 1943, denouncing the “traitors of the UGIF.”

“A liberated France will destroy all traces of racial hatred,” reads the headline of *Fraternité*, the official publication of the Mouvement National contre le Racisme, dated November 15, 1943.

Special issue of the underground newspaper *La Vie Ouvrière* (CGT) dated June 8, 1941, praising the miners’ struggle.

In a leaflet, sports leaders denounce the Nazification of sports in France (1941).

On July 14, 1941, the underground newspaper *L’Humanité* called for demonstrations and for people to express their solidarity with the USSR.

The August 21, 1941, issue of *L’Humanité clandestine* urges readers to tune in to Radio Moscow and Radio France.