{"id":16926,"date":"2024-06-17T10:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/the-villeurbanne-popular-uprising\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:28:24","slug":"the-villeurbanne-popular-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/the-villeurbanne-popular-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"The Villeurbanne Popular Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In late August 1944, the city of Villeurbanne, a municipality bordering Lyon, was the scene of a full-scale popular uprising led primarily by the FTP-M.O.I. and the combat groups of the UJRE and the UJJ.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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   On the morning of August 24, 1944, Henri Krischer, \u201cCaptain Lamiral,\u201d the military commander of the FTP-M.O.I. in Lyon, was tasked with leading approximately eighty men\u2014from the \u201cCarmagnole\u201d detachment detachment as well as combat groups from the UJRE and the UJJ\u2014retrieve trucks from the police headquarters garage in Villeurbanne.<\/p>


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    Spotted by the Germans, the group came under machine-gun fire and retreated to the city center. Joined by several hundred enthusiastic residents, \u201cLamiral\u201d and his men were urged to occupy various buildings, including City Hall, the telephone exchange, and the police station\u2026 Police officers were disarmed, weapons were seized, and \u201cLamiral\u201d set off to seek advice from the head of the FTP-M.O.I.\u2019s HI4 interregional division, the Hungarian-Romanian Georges Gr\u00fcnfeld, \u201cCommander Lefort.\u201d <\/span><\/p>


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   The latter, believing that there was no turning back and that a retreat would be perceived by the population as a sign of weakness, or even betrayal, decided to set up his command post at the Villeurbanne town hall\u2014which thereby became the center of the nascent insurrection\u2014and, together with \u201cLamiral\u201d to form a command team.<\/p>


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   For three days, Villeurbanne and certain neighborhoods in northeastern Lyon were filled with barricades and remained completely beyond the reach of the Occupying Forces. Various attempts by German troops to regain the initiative and control of this part of the city failed. <\/p>


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   Fighters from all Resistance organizations took part in these events. Admittedly, it was the FTP-M.O.I. of \u201cCarmagnole\u201d that led this uprising, but they rallied numerous Resistance fighters around them, joined\u2014as is typical in any insurrectionary situation\u2014 a significant number of last-minute volunteers, who were undoubtedly sincerely ready to fight but had no military training. <\/p>


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   On August 26, 1944, an attempt to extend the uprising to other neighborhoods of Lyon failed, and since the various appeals for help from the \u201cmilitary council\u201d based at the Villeurbanne town hall had had no effect, the insurgents negotiated their withdrawal. In exchange for a German promise not to carry out reprisals against the people of Villeurbanne\u2014a promise that would be kept\u2014they released the Germans they had taken prisoner and asked the population to dismantle the barricades; the UJRE and UJJ combat groups went back into hiding. <\/p>


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   Villeurbanne is, along with Paris\u2014albeit on an infinitely smaller scale\u2014the only city in the country to have experienced a genuine popular uprising.<\/p>\n

Led by foreigners \u201cwith names that are hard to pronounce,\u201d it certainly did not end in victory, but it nonetheless represents one of the few moments of Resistance that Lyon, the \u201ccapital of the Resistance,\u201d experienced at the time of its liberation [\u2026].\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Reference:<\/strong><\/p>

Claude Collin, 2006, in *Dictionnaire historique de la R\u00e9sistance*, published by <\/em>Robert Laffont. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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