Execution of hostages

In August 1941, Artur London, a member of the Czechoslovak group and one of the national co-leaders of the M.O.I., was tasked with organizing the German Work(TA), a particularly sensitive undertaking. The organization, established by the Communist Party nine months earlier, has three main anti-Hitler objectives: intelligence gathering by infiltrating the German army (the Wehrmacht), […]

After the Occupation of Poland in 1939, the Nazis confined the Jews to ghettos. In the USSR, the systematic elimination of women, men, and children began as soon as Hitler invaded in June 1941. In the Baltic states (particularly in Lithuania), Ukraine, and Belarus, pogroms were organized by local residents. At the same time, mass […]

Following the execution of the activists Tyszelman and Gautherot, the underground newspaper *L’Humanité* called for their revenge. On August 21, 1941, Pierre Georges—a Communist member of the Resistance, military commissioner ofthe Organisation Spéciale (OS), and the future Colonel Fabien—shot and killed a German cadet in the Paris metro at the Barbès-Rochechouart station. Pierre Georges shouted: […]