The Men from Zadig

On the morning of August 19th, alerted by the codeword "The Men from Zadig", a resistance group under the command of Andre Caillette seized the Neuilly town hall. This was to be but a small part of a much larger insurrection that was taking place in Paris, one that would …

1944-08-19

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On the morning of August 19th, alerted by the codeword "The Men from Zadig", a resistance group under the command of Andre Caillette seized the Neuilly town hall. This was to be but a small part of a much larger insurrection that was taking place in Paris, one that would hopefully culminate in liberation. The Germans reacted swiftly when warned of the seizure, and before long a Wehrmacht truck pulled to a halt outside with an officer and six men jumping out and demanding the surrender of the more than sixty partisans. Caillette's men replied with a hail of gunfire that left all seven Germans dead in the street. Other elements of the Paris garrison (the 325th Security Division) soon arrived, well-equipped with machine guns and supported by panzers

Neuilly, France

The French Resistance was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women, who, in addition to their guerrilla warfare activities, were also publishers of underground newspapers, providers of first-hand intelligence information, and maintainers of escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind enemy lines. The men and women of the Resistance came from all economic levels and political leanings of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics, Jews, liberals, anarchists and communists.

German

Partisan

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