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Salle 14 - Insurrection et Libération

April–September 1944

Children from the “Children’s Colony” in Izieu (summer 1943). On April 6, 1944, following a tip-off, Gestapo troops under the command of Klaus Barbie arrested the 44 children living there and 7 adults.

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Photo, June–August 1943, Izieu © USHMM, Washington_D. Popowski Fenster_30194 (DR)

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14.2 The Final Flickerings of Collaboration and Nazism

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