{"id":16493,"date":"2024-05-17T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T10:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/musee\/repression-the-major-surveillance-operations\/1-compulsory-labor-and-propaganda-department\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:22:46","slug":"1-compulsory-labor-and-propaganda-department","status":"publish","type":"musee","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/musee\/repression-the-major-surveillance-operations\/1-compulsory-labor-and-propaganda-department\/","title":{"rendered":"1 &#8211; Compulsory Labor and Propaganda Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"16493\" class=\"elementor elementor-16493 elementor-2556\" data-elementor-post-type=\"musee\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-735ebd0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"735ebd0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e911607 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e911607\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0cc8de elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f0cc8de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In January 1943, the <a href=\"#\" data-note=\"16983\">French Militia<\/a> (known simply as the \u201cMilice\u201d), the Vichy regime\u2019s formidable political police force, was established.<\/p><p>In February, the Occupying Forces imposed the <a href=\"#\" data-note=\"17008\">Compulsory Labor Service ( <\/a>STO) on young French people in Germany. They were expected to boost German agriculture and industry, which were facing labor shortages. Many men, fleeing the STO, went <a href=\"#\" data-note=\"16732\">underground<\/a> and joined the <a href=\"#\" data-note=\"17038\">maquis<\/a>.  <\/p><p> <\/p><p>The <a href=\"#\" data-note=\"16711\">FTP-M.O.I.<\/a> continued and stepped up their armed actions (throwing grenades, planting bombs in hotels frequented by Germans, setting military trucks on fire, etc.) despite increased surveillance by the occupying authorities.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>For Vichy, the Resistance was nothing more than a conspiracy by \u201canti-France.\u201d This was the terminology used by Hitler\u2019s propaganda machine to frighten the French population and turn it away from the Resistance. In 1943, freedom fighters were labeled \u201cterrorists\u201d by the Nazis and by <a href=\"#\" data-note=\"16833\">P\u00e9tain\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"#\" data-note=\"16840\">collaborationist<\/a> French government.  <\/p><p>The goal, according to the Nazis and their collaborators, was to portray resistance groups as criminal gangs organized to subject France to \u201ccosmopolitan Judeo-Communist terror.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d52b6ad e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d52b6ad\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1e37d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-child-list\" data-id=\"c1e37d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"child-list.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-c1e37d9 .eap-child-list:not(.eap-child-list-style-2) .icon {bottom:-30px} .elementor-element-c1e37d9 .eap-child-list.eap-child-list-style-2 .icon {right:-30px} @media screen and (max-width: 1024px) {.elementor-element-c1e37d9 .eap-child-list.eap-child-list-style-2 .icon {bottom: -30px; 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In February, the Occupying Forces imposed the Compulsory Labor Service ( STO) on young French people in Germany. They were expected to boost German agriculture and industry, which were facing labor shortages. 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