Franc-Tireur (movement)

The Résistancegruppe Franc- Shooter was founded in 1941 in Lyon by Jean -Pierre Lévy and Antoine Avinin in the initially unoccupied southern zone of France.

Organization

The group was led by Lévy and consisted of Socialists, Communists and Liberals, who had been prescribed from abhorrence of the Vichy regime to the ideal of an independent French Republic.

In December 1941, the group began publishing the underground newspaper Franc- Shooter, which appeared regularly on a monthly basis and at the beginning of a print run of 5,000 copies, in August 1944 reached a print run of 150,000 copies. Among the persons who were involved in this underground newspaper, was also the famous historian Marc Bloch.

Even if the group in Lyon had their center of gravity, they possessed in the Auvergne, Limousin and in the Mediterranean through members.

In February 1942, Levy took Jean Moulin talks about the unification of the three operating in the South Zone of resistance groups,

  • The Franc- Shooter,
  • Henri Frenay and the Combat
  • Libération Sud by Emmanuel d' Astier de la Vigerie on,

In the establishment of the Movements Unis de Résistance (MUR ) resulted.

In May 1943, Jean Moulin finally reached, that besides the three above -mentioned groups

  • The Front National of Pierre Villon,
  • The Comité d'action Socialiste by Pierre Brossolette and
  • The Armée secrète by Charles Delestraints

Together with the Résistancegruppen from the North Zone

  • Organisation civile et militaire OCM
  • Libération Nord
  • Ceux de la Résistance
  • Ceux de la Libération

The Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR; German National Council of Resistance ), a kind of underground resistance Parliament formed. They documented so that the will, the internal Resistance and the external committee France France libre the combat tande, battling France formed in contrast to the collaborationist Vichy France regime. At the same time this underground Parliament Charles de Gaulle politically strengthened the back, in which it accepted his supreme command and subordination under General Henri Giraud refused.

Some other members of the resistance group, Franc- Shooter

  • Édouard Alexander
  • Georges Altman
  • Eugène Claudius -Petit
  • Noël Clavier
  • Yves Farge
  • André Ferrat
  • Elie Peju
  • Auguste Pinton
  • Albert Rohmer
  • Henri Romans- Petit
  • Jean -Jacques Soudeille
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