2024-02-21 06:06:33
Shot by the German army on February 21, 1944, Missak Manouchian, a 37-year-old Armenian, entered the Pantheon “accompanied by Mélinée”, his wife, of Armenian origin and resistant like him. Missak Manouchian was one of the military leaders of a group of foreign resistance fighters in the Paris region commanded by the Communist Party: the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans – Immigrant workforce.
A survivor of the Armenian genocide, he arrived in France without identity papers in the mid-1920s. Faced with the rise of xenophobia and fascism throughout Europe, he joined the ranks of the Party in the early 1930s. Communist.
At the end of 1943, French police officers in the service of the German occupiers ended up arresting this foreigner at war against the Nazi invader. Tortured by the French police then tried by a German court martial, he and a little more than twenty resistance fighters were sentenced to death. At the same time as this speedy trial, the Nazi propaganda service distributed a poster calling these fighters an “army of crime”. It is The Red Poster that the poet Aragon immortalized a few years after the end of the war.
Sources :
Foreigners in the ResistanceDenis Peschanski (Editions de l’atelier, 2013)
The role of foreigners in the ResistanceThe meetings of history (2002)
Foreigners and persecuted in times of warImmigration Museum
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