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Newspapers

Excerpt from the newspaper L’Humanité, July 25, 1941, calling for sabotage as a way to fulfill one’s patriotic duty.

The newspaper *Unzer Wort*, dated August 8, 1941, calling for “unity among the Jewish masses and brotherhood with the French people within the National Front for the Independence of France.”

In September–October 1941, the Université libre called on intellectuals and academics to join the National Front.

The first issue of *La France libre*, an underground Resistance newspaper (August 1941).

La Relève, the underground publication of communist high school and college students, calls for resistance against the invader and honors the memory of the fighters executed by the Nazis (August 19, 1941)

The August 21, 1941, issue of*L’Humanité clandestine*, following the execution of Tyszelman and Gautherot: “The blood of these martyrs cries out for vengeance!”

The August 21, 1941, issue of *Le Matin*, a collaborationist newspaper, reports on the roundup of Jews in Paris’s 11th arrondissement and justifies it on the grounds of their communist activities.

Our *Parole* of September 1, 1941, and *Unzer Wort* of September 1, 1941, published the appeal issued by Soviet Jewish leaders on August 24.

On October 23, 1941, *Le Matin*, a collaborationist newspaper, published Pétain’s call for denunciation.

The October 24, 1941, edition of *L’Ouest-Éclair* published the list of the 48 Communist hostages who were shot in Châteaubriant on the 22nd.

Statement made to *Paris-Soir* on April 5, 1941, by Xavier Vallat, Commissioner General for Jewish Affairs (CGQJ).

A newspaper article aimed at preparing the French public for the racial measures imposed during the German Occupation.

The collaborationist newspaper *Le Matin*, in its June 23, 1941, edition, described the invasion of the USSR as “a war against Bolshevism.”

The underground Yiddish newspaper *Unzer Wort* of June 25, 1941, and *Notre Parole* denounced Operation Barbarossa: “Long live the Soviet Union! The enemy will be crushed and annihilated.”

On January 22, 1943, *Le Matin*, a collaborationist newspaper, published a map of the 14 departments off-limits to Jews.

The February 15, 1943, issue of *Notre Voix* condemns the deportation of Jews from Marseille to the Compiègne camp and to “an unknown destination.”

Mendel (Marcel) Langer, commander of the 35th FTP-M.O.I. Brigade (Toulouse), was sentenced to death for transporting explosives, following the closing argument by Attorney General Lespinasse (March 1943).

The August 15, 1943, issue of *La Voix de la Femme Juive* carries the headline “We Will Avenge Mendel Langer.”

*La Dépêche du Midi* (Oct. 11, 1943) reported that the Resistance had executed Prosecutor Lespinasse, who had sought the death penalty for Marcel Langer.

*La Marseillaise* No. 1 (Dec. 1, 1943), the underground newspaper of the National Front for Provence, celebrates the liberation of Corsica (September–October 1943).

Issue No. 2 of *Jeune Combat*, dated July 5, 1943, calls for making July 16, 1942, a day of mobilization against Nazism, in commemoration of the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup.

*Jeune Combat*, the UJJ’s official publication dated September 4, 1943, denounced the Milice and the census and called on people to join the STO draft dodgers.

The February 17, 1943, issue of *Paris-Soir* announced the second law on the SOT (February 16), which, one week later, became the STO (Compulsory Labor Service).

The February 20, 1944, issue of *Le Matin*, a collaborationist newspaper, reports on the trial of the members of the “Manouchian Group.”