Tag: French Resistance
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The Liberation of Broglie, France: A Triumph of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division
Guest Post by M. Raoul Boyer Video Description: The machine-gunner/assistant driver of a Sherman tank belonging to the 22nd Armoured Regiment (The Canadian Grenadier Guards) is given a glass of wine to drink by a Frenchwoman during a pause in the advance. FFI volunteers and townspeople gather in small groups in the rain to greet…
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Andrée De Jongh – To Fight Without Killing
With Brussels now liberated, we look back at a woman who played a role in resisting the German occupation and helping downed Allied airmen. Andrée was born in 1916 in Schaerbeek, a suburb of Brussels in German occupied Belgium. When Belgium capitulated on 28 May 1940, she volunteered to work in a Bruges hospital where…
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Massacre at Buchères. August 24, 1944.
Massacre at Buchères. August 24, 1944. With German forces withdrawing in France, and Paris on the cusp of liberation, the Nazis continue their brutal treatment of the civilian population. On August 24, 1944, the village of Buchères (10800) near Troyes was to experience a day of horror. The previous evening, FFI fighters set up a…
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Russian-born Princess Véra Obolensky Guillotined by the Nazis in Berlin. August 4, 1944.
On August 4, 1944, Russian-born Princess Véra Obolensky was guillotined by the Nazis at Ploetzensee prison in Berlin. She began working for the French Resistance in late 1940. Arrested in Paris in late 43, she was sentenced to death in Arras in May 1944 and then deported to Germany.
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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…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 