{"id":17082,"date":"2024-06-17T10:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/georges-pierre\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:40:51","slug":"georges-pierre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/georges-pierre\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges Pierre"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Pierre Georges was born on January 21, 1919, in Paris. He began working at a very young age and, like the rest of his family, joined the Communist Party. <\/p>

In October 1936, he enlisted in the International Brigades to come to the aid of the Spanish Republic, which was in danger; he was wounded on the Aragon front.<\/p>

Upon his return to France, he trained to become an aircraft mechanic.<\/p>

He was elected to the National Council of the Communist Youth and, on July 8, 1939, he married Andr\u00e9e Coudrier, a Parisian activist. After the signing of the German-Soviet Pact, the French Communist Party was dissolved. Pierre Georges and his wife were arrested in December 1939. He escaped in June 1940. <\/p>

Living in hiding under the pseudonym Fr\u00e9do, he stayed in several cities and then, in the fall, took over as head of the Communist Youth for the entire Southeast.<\/p>

Fr\u00e9do moved to Paris in the spring of 1941 to join the national leadership of the Communist Youth. As a member of the Organisation Sp\u00e9ciale (OS), which fought against the occupying forces, he became Albert Ouzoulias\u2019s deputy in 1941, with Ouzoulias heading the Youth Battalions. <\/p>

On August 21, 1941, he shot a German naval cadet, Alfons Moser, at the Barb\u00e8s-Rochechouart metro station in Paris. This act marked a symbolic break with the doctrine of the Communist Party, which had, until then, opposed terrorist attacks. <\/p>

This first action against the occupying forces marked the beginning of the PCF\u2019s new strategy: direct confrontation with the enemy.<\/p>

Pierre Georges then took part in numerous operations. Narrowly escaping arrest, he left the Paris region for Franche-Comt\u00e9, where he organized one of the first FTP resistance groups under the new alias of Captain Henri. <\/p>

On October 25, 1942, after being betrayed and wounded, he managed to escape, but he was arrested in November 1942 in Paris by the French police, who handed him over to the Germans.<\/p>

After being interrogated by the Nazi police, the Gestapo, tortured, and imprisoned in Fresnes\u2014before being transferred to Dijon and then to Fort Romainville\u2014he managed to escape in May 1943.<\/p>

He helped organize the resistance groups and led military operations in several regions of France under the pseudonym \u201cColonel Fabien,\u201d which he would retain until his death.<\/p>

Recalled to the Paris region, he was appointed FTP commander for the Seine-Sud sector. His men took part in the uprising and the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Colonel Fabien hoped to make his fighters the core of a new army, mobilized until the Nazis were defeated. <\/p>

In September 1944, he set out with his brigade of volunteers, the Fabiens, in pursuit of the Germans. Initially fighting alongside Patton\u2019s division, the unit was later incorporated into the First French Army, which was fighting in eastern France. <\/p>

On December 27, 1944, at the age of 25, Colonel Fabien was killed when a mine exploded at his command post in Habsheim (Haut-Rhin).<\/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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References:<\/strong><\/p>

– Bourderon, Roger, 1996, \u201cThe PCF in the Armed Struggle: Concepts and Organizations<\/em>,\u201d in *The Resistance and the French: Armed Struggle and the Maquis*. Besan\u00e7on Symposium. <\/em>*Literary Annals <\/em>of the University of Franche-Comt\u00e9*.<\/p>

– Diamant, <\/em>David, 1971 <\/em>, *The Jews in the French Resistance, 1940\u20131944: With or Without Weapons*. Le <\/em>Pavillon Roger Maria \u00c9diteur.<\/p>

– Photo: Le Maitron (DR).<\/p>

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