{"id":17029,"date":"2024-06-17T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/ftp-m-o-i-southern-zone-marcel-langer-brigade-carmagnole-detachment-etc\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:35:47","slug":"ftp-m-o-i-southern-zone-marcel-langer-brigade-carmagnole-detachment-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/ftp-m-o-i-southern-zone-marcel-langer-brigade-carmagnole-detachment-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"FTP-M.O.I. Southern Zone: Marcel Langer Brigade, Carmagnole Detachment, etc…"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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   Several FTP-M.O.I. groups were formed in the southern zone, but some were particularly active. In Lyon, in the summer of 1942, a few former members of the Spanish Civil War brigades and activists from the Communist Youth League came together. All were foreign Jews. They formed the \u201cCarmagnole\u201d detachment. <\/p>


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   In addition to \u201cCarmagnole,\u201d a second detachment was formed, known as \u201cSimon-Frid,\u201d named after a fighter who was guillotined in December 1943; however, this detachment would never reach full strength.<\/p>\n

In Grenoble, the \u201cLibert\u00e9\u201d detachment (30 men) was formed in the spring of 1943.<\/p>\n

There were numerous acts of resistance in the Lyon and Grenoble regions against the occupying forces and the Vichy regime.<\/span><\/p>


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   Following the D-Day landings, the \u201cCarmagnole\u201d and \u201cLibert\u00e9\u201d detachments each formed a maquis; each group comprised more than a hundred fighters and included Italians, Polish miners, and young French people fleeing the STO.<\/p>\n

The list of \u201cThe Hundred Dead of Carmagnole\u201d and \u201cLibert\u00e9\u201d from 1942 to 1944 reveals that the organization relied primarily on Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.<\/p>


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   In Toulouse, the 35th Brigade, known as the \u201cMarcel Langer Brigade,\u201d is named after its commander, a Polish Jew and former member of the Brigades, who was assassinated by the Vichy regime. It is a mixed unit, composed of 60 members, mainly Jews from Eastern Europe. <\/p>\n

The women, who are deeply involved, carry the weapons, track down targets, and make the bombs.<\/p>\n

   The \u201cBrigade\u2019s\u201d record is impressive: sabotage of railroads, factories, and German supply depots; attacks on German convoys; and the execution of collaborating magistrates and militiamen\u2026 The fighters succeeded in creating a climate of constant insecurity for the enemy.<\/p>


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   In Marseille, the Marat detachment\u2014which later became the Maurice Korzec Company, named after its young Jewish commander, who was murdered by the Nazis at the age of 19\u2014was also very active. On November 11, 1942, as German troops entered Marseille, a bomb destroyed a German truck right in the city center. Numerous other attacks would follow. <\/p>


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   Generally speaking, despite their small numbers, the FTP-M.O.I. Resistance fighters\u2014both in Paris and in the South\u2014were highly effective in their fight against Nazism and for freedom. They all took part in the battles for the Liberation. <\/p>\n

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\u2014 Collin, Claude, in: F. Marcot (ed.), 2006, *Historical Dictionary of the Resistance*<\/em>: Robert Laffont. <\/p>

\u2014 Ravine, Jacques (1973) *The Organized Jewish Resistance in France, 1940\u20131944*: <\/em> Julliard <\/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":"

After the Nazis invaded the southern zone in November 1942, FTP-M.O.I. groups\u2014some more organized than others\u2014rapidly sprang up. Among them, the \u201cCarmagnole\u201d detachment in Lyon, the \u201cLibert\u00e9\u201d detachment in Grenoble, the 35th Brigade in Toulouse, and the Maurice Korzec Company in Marseille were particularly active.    Several FTP-M.O.I. groups were formed in the southern zone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"salle":[211],"source":[],"zone-geo":[],"class_list":["post-17029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","salle-11-2-battle-of-the-ftp-m-o-i-in-the-south"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17031,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17029\/revisions\/17031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17029"},{"taxonomy":"salle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/salle?post=17029"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=17029"},{"taxonomy":"zone-geo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zone-geo?post=17029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}