Organisation de résistance de l'armée

The Organisation de résistance de l' armée ( ORA ) ( resistance organization of the Army) was a French paramilitary resistance organization during the Second World War.

Foundation

After the German invasion of the zone libre ( free zone ) in November 1942, the ORA was on 31 January 1943 - founded organization - even so-called apolitical. However, they united former French military personnel in the resistance against the German occupation, Charles de Gaulle's leadership not appreciatively. The ORA was founded by General Aubert Frère. Brother was at that time was President of the Tribunal, which de Gaulle had sentenced in August 1940 in Clermont- Ferrand to death.

Leadership

General Aubert Brother led the ORA from the founding in 1940 until his arrest and deportation to a concentration camp Struthof 1943, where he died on 13 June 1944.

After Brother led General Jean -Edouard Verneau the ORA. He was arrested on 23 October 1943 and died during his deportation to Buchenwald on 14 September 1944.

After he took over General Georges Revers the lead, with General Pierre Brisac as his deputy.

In the zone sud, which was not occupied by Germans, who ORA grew rapidly, due to the recruitment of officers and on arms supplies from the Vichy army. In 1944 she joined with two other major Résistance organizations, the Armée secrète ( AS) and the Francs- tireurs et partisans (FTP) to the Forces françaises de l' intérieur (FFI ), but kept within the FFI their autonomy.