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Insurrection and Liberation

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HALL 14 - Insurrection and Liberation
April–September 1944

14. Insurrection and Liberation

Poster displaying Colonel Rol-Tanguy’s call for an uprising; he was the FFI commander for the Paris region and a member of the PCF (August 17, 1944).

Destruction of pylon No. 506 on the 1,500-kilovolt Bayet-Montluçon power line by members of the Resistance on April 13, 1944.

In May 1944, *L’Humanité* called for preparations for a national uprising.

Call from the UJRE to join the ranks of the French Internal Forces for the Liberation of France.

Sabotage carried out by the “Guignard” group on the night of August 22–23, 1944. Pierre Guignard, a communist, was a member of the FFI in the Deux-Sèvres department.

French Forces of the Interior (FFI)

FFI membership card, issued in Lyon on November 29, 1944.

UJRE Demands for “Jews to Regain a Life as Free Men in a Liberated France” (April 1944).

Official Journal of the French Republic, April 22, 1944: The Establishment of Departmental Liberation Committees.

Appeal from the Versailles Liberation Committee.

Departmental Liberation Committees (CDL)

Objectives of the Liberation Committees (Savoie, Spring 1944).

Patriotic Militias

The first page of an unpublished inspection report by Cécile Cerf from a hideout of the Patriotic Militias of Saône-et-Loire.

Cécile the Deer

A stamp attesting to the existence of the Women’s Patriotic Militias, belonging to Cécile Cerf, an organizer of the women’s Resistance.

Armband of the Women’s Patriotic Militia, belonging to Cécile Cerf.

Robert Endewelt highlights the decisive role played by the Jewish Patriotic Militia in the battles for liberation.

National Front Newsletter, June 1944: Guidelines for the Formation of Patriotic Militias.

*Notre Voix* reports on three armed attacks by the UJRE against German vehicle convoys, a train derailment, and the destruction of three high-voltage transmission towers (June 13–19, 1944).

Call by the General Union of Immigrants to join the Patriotic Militias (Limoges, summer 1944).

Summary of acts of sabotage carried out between January and August 1944 on the Montauban–Toulouse railroad line by the Louis Sabatié Maquis (a Communist member of the FTP-MOI in Montauban who was executed by the Vichy militia).

Civilians suspected of being members of the Resistance were arrested by the Vichy militia.

Mass grave from the massacres committed by the SS, a Nazi organization, from August 17 to 21, 1944 (109 victims), near Bron Airport (Lyon).