Category: Gestapo

• “Miss Dior:” Member of the French Resistance During World War II

  November 26, 2024

  1940s, Buchenwald, Catherine Dior, Christian Dior, Concentration Camps, Croix de Guerre, espionage, event & history, F2 Franco-Polish Resistance network, French Resistance, French Women, Gestapo, Hervé des Charbonneries, History Daily, Legion of Honour, Nazi, Paris, Spies, Trolley de Prévaux, World War II

  1940s, Buchenwald, Catherine Dior, Christian Dior, Concentration Camps, Croix de Guerre, espionage, event & history, F2 Franco-Polish Resistance network, French Resistance, French Women, Gestapo, Hervé des Charbonneries, History Daily, Legion of Honour, Nazi, Paris, spy, Trolley de Prévaux, World War II

• Madeleine Riffaud – July 23, 1944.

  “Resistance is attacking those that are stronger than you. Terrorism is for the weak.” 80 years ago, on July 23, 1944. “I had to shoot a German NCO on the Solférino bridge in Paris.Well, he went down like a sack of wheat. He uttered no cry. Maybe he was a good guy, maybe he was…

  July 23, 2024

  1940s, France, Gestapo, History Daily, Madeleine Riffaud, Uncategorized, World War II

  1940s, France, Gestapo, History Daily, Madeleine Riffaud, World War II

• Ariadna Scriabina: French Resistance Hero

  Toulouse, France – Saturday, 22 July 1944 Ariadna Scriabina (Knout) and two other French Resistance members go to 11 rue de la Pomme, an apartment used as a dead drop in the city of Toulouse. She is carrying false identification papers for other Resistance members. What they do not know is that French Milice is…

  July 22, 2024

  1940s, Ariadna Scriabina, French Resistance, Gestapo, History Daily, Spies, World War II

  1940s, Ariadna Scriabina, French Resistance, Gestapo, History Daily, Spies, World War II