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France: Miscellaneous Publications, 1939-1944 (continued)
Folder 28: Vive le 11 Novembre Les Mouvements de Résistance Unis, Front National Parti, et Jeunesses Communistes. A flyer saluting the French sailors who scuttled their ships at Toulon on Nov. 27, 1942 to prevent their seizure by the Germans when they occupied Vichy France. (2 copies) (Undated)
Folder 29: Vive l’Union de la Nation Française! Le Parti Communiste Français. A leaflet proclaiming that only the Communist Party can be trusted to fight the Vichy collaborators. (Undated)
Folder 30: Voir. An English pamphlet which offers accounts of the American capture of Cherbourg, and other activities of Allied forces in Normandy. 3 pp. (Undated)
Folder 31: Voix d’Outre-Tombe. A leaflet presenting quoted criticisms of German barbarism made by Georges Clemençeau during World War I which are still relevant during the current conflict. (Undated)
Folder 32: Le Vrai Chef du Gouvernement, Pierre Laval.... Le Parti Communiste Français. Le Parti Communiste Français A small flyer calling for the removal of Laval. (Undated)
Folder 33: : Unidentified fragments, miscellany. Includes 15 page typescript list of LC French underground holdings: xD802.F8 (30 items)
BOX 72 Folder 1: Après Deux Années de "Révolution Nationale" Le Parti Communiste Français. A leaflet complaining about that France has a shortage of farm workers who are underpaid, but they are still being forced to by the Nazis to work on farms in Germany. 2 pp. (Undated)
Folder 2: Cheminots Français! La Confédération Générale des Travailleurs des Chemins de Fer. See also size box 2, folder 6 for other copies. A flyer urging railroad (Undated)
Folder 3: Le Comité départemental de la libération à la population du Nord. Le Comité départemental de la libération. See also Box 23, Folder 16 for other copies. A leaflet urging young workers to continue to resist German attempts to deport them to work in factories and on farms in Germany. (Undated) 2 pages.
Folder 4: Le Comité français en séance. A flyer presenting a photograph of a liberation committee listing the members names during a meeting in Algeria.
Folder 5: Comité parisien de libération (C.P.L.) Conseil national de la Résistance. Flyer issued by a committee of the C.N.R. and distributed to the people of Paris shortly after the Normandy invasion. It offers suggestions of acts of sabotage they can commit against the Germans when the Allies approach the city.
June 15, 1944.
Folder 6: La Corse délivrée. A flyer displaying photographs of the Allied liberation of the island of Corsica. (Undated)
Folder 7: La déportation des travailleurs français. A flyer appealing to the French people to resist efforts by the Germans to deport large numbers to work in Germany and to hide those who have been ordered to report for deportation. (Undated)
Folder 8: Deux voix françaises: Charles Péguy, Gabriel Péri. Paris. A pamphlet of selected writings of two French resistance patriots.
June 30, 1944. 8 pages.
Folder 9: Entrevue Laval-Hitler / La première défaite de la Wehrmacht. A flyer containing two articles about a meeting between Hitler and Laval in Dec. 1941, and announcing the first defeat of the Germany army in Russia (Undated)
Folder 10: L’Exemple de la Corse. Le Parti communiste français. A leaflet declaring that the Communist resistance on the island of Corsica provides a heroic example to the rest of France. (Undated) 2 pages.
Folder 11: Fête nationale du 11 novembre. Grenoble. A flyer asking the people of Grenoble to leave work on Nov. 11, 1943, and to assemble at the Place de la Bastille to celebrate the victory over Germany in 1918. (Undated)
Folder 12: Une flagrante injustice! Le Parti communiste français. A leaflet attacking the Vichy regime for its ruinous agriculture policies. (Undated) 2 pages.
Folder 13: La France au vombat. A flyer with photographs of French paratroopers and sailors assembling in Morocco after the Allied victory in North Africa. (Undated)
Folder 14: Instructions pour la main-d’oeuvre embauchée pour l’Allemagne. L’Office de placement. A list of instructions to be issued to French workers who are being deported to Germany. (2 pages) Also nine documents that must be filled out by a worker before leaving for Germany, including the results of a physical examination. (Undated)
Folder 15: Jeunes des Chantiers, alerte! Les Forces unies de la jeunesse. A flyer warning the young people of France of the danger presented to them by forced deportation to German munitions factories and urges them to join the underground resistance. (2 copies)
Folder 16: Les jours heureux. Conseil national de la Résistance. See also Box 28, Folder 48 for other copies. A pamphlet urging the creation of committees in every town in France to demand better living conditions from the Vichy regime. 9 pp. (Undated)
Folder 17: Lettre attribuée a de Menzie à Pétain. Leaflet claims that Pétain’s regime has ruined France. He should convene the National Assembly and restore a divided France to its pre-war Republic.
Nov. 5, 1943. 2 pages.
Folder 18: M. Leaflet presents a parody of the death, funeral, and last will of Adolf Hitler, who was still alive at the time. 2 pp. (Undated)
Folder 18: M. Leaflet presents a parody of the death, funeral, and last will of Adolf Hitler, who was still alive at the time. 2 pp. (Undated)
Folder 19: Memorandum sur l’organisation de la résistance et les réfractaires. Leaflet urges French citizens to attack collaborators who assist the Germans who arrest and deport French countrymen to work in Germany. (Undated) 2 pages.
BOX 73 Folder 1: Messieurs et chers compatriotes. Comité paysan du Front nationale de lutte pour l’indépendence de la France. See also Box 24, Folder 65 for other copies. A leaflet urging the mayors of French rural towns to resist the efforts of the regime in the attempt to deport French farm workers to Germany. (Undated) 2 pages. (11 copies)
Folder 2: 1942: Tournant de la guerre. Flyer describes Allied defeats in early 1942, mostly in the Pacific, and then lists the victories at Stalingrad, in North Africa, and the new bombing campaign against Germany by the Allied air forces. (Undated) 2 pages.
Folder 3: 1943 Doit être un nouveau 1918. Le Parti communiste français. Leaflet describes how the Italians threw out Mussolini in 1943 and took up arms against the German occupation and urges the French to do the same. (Undated) 2 pages.
Folder 4: Nouvelle composition du Comité français de la libération nationale. Leaflet bearing a photograph of the French Committee for National Liberation with a list of names of the officials, including General de Gaulle. (Undated)
Folder 5: Programme d’action. Défense de la France. Flyer issued by a group calling itself “Défense de la France” lists political and social reforms the new Fourth Republic should undertake after the end of the war. (Undated) (7 copies)
Folder 6: La promotion “Pour la Libération de la France”. Le Parti communiste français. Leaflet gives an account of how many French Communist party members died fighting the German occupation of France, and how the party has tried to unite all factions in the country to resist. (Undated) 2 pages. (3 copies; 1 mutilated)
Folder 7: 14 juillet 1944, tous au combat! Le Front nationale de lutte pour l’indépendence de la France. Flyer urges Parisians not to report to work on July 14, 1944 but instead arm themselves and sabotage rail transportation and German Army communication systems. (Undated)
Folder 8: République française 11 november 1943. Le Front nationale de lutte pour l’indépendence de la France. Département de Saône-et-Loire. Flyer claims that France is not vanquished and she will triumph over Germany as she did in 1918. Lists Free French forces fighting with the Allies. (Undated)
Folder 9: Les usines Renault travaillaient pour l’armée allemande. Leaflet with photographs shows the damage done by the R.A.F. raid to a Renault factory that was producing vehicles for the German Army. (Undated) 2 pages.
Folder 10: Voleurs de terre! Le Parti communiste français. Leaflet proclaims the efforts of Communists in Russia and France to return farmland to the peasants/farmers and that the German Army in both countries has seized farm land and produce for its own needs. (Undated) 2 pages.
BOX 26 and box 74 France: French Territories: World War II Underground Serials and Miscellaneous Publications, 1941-1944
Algerian, Moroccan, St. Pierre et Miquelon and West Indian serial publications on the topic of the underground movements in Europe During World War II. Includes
Arranged alphabetically by geographical area, then sub-arranged alphabetically by title.
BOX 26 Algeria
Folder 34: Le courrier d’Alger
Jan. 19, 1944
Feb. 1944 (2 copies)
Mar. 1944 (3 copies)
Mar. 25, 1944 (2 copies)
Apr. 12, 1944
Folder 35: El ʹHayat, L’Avenir Nord-Africain
June 1944
Folder 36: Il y a des juges à Alger Le témoin des martyrs.
A leaflet addressed to the judges of Algeria asking why a collaborator in prison has not been brought to trial for betraying 27 patriots to the Germans. [1943?] (6 copies)
Morocco
Folder 37: Libération, Le Front national libération
Communiqué Nrs. 3, 4 (undated)
Communiqué Nrs. 6, Mar. 24; Bis 6, Mar. 25, 1943
Communiqué Nrs. 8-12, Apr. 19-May 18, 1943
Communiqué Nr. 16, July 1943
Folder 38: Liberté, Port-Lyautey/Kenitra
Nr. 8, July 25, 1941
St. Pierre et Miquelon
Folder 39: Tracts clandestins qui circulaient aux Îles St. Pierre et Miquelon ... Le Service de l’information France libre. Ottawa A pamphlet containing anti-Vichy writings that were distributed on the island of St. Pierre and Miquelon off the coast of Newfoundland before the territory was seized by de Gaulle Free French fordes. (Undated) 21 pages.
West Indies
Les cahiers de la libération
Nr. 45, Aug. 11, 1944
BOX 74 Folder 1: France: Miscellany. (4 items) Illustrated matter, fragments.
Folder 2: France: Miscellany (18 items) Illustrated matter, front covers of 2 books, fragments of newsletters, poster and Photostat fragments.
Algeria.
Folder 3: Combat
3. année, Nr. 76, Sept. 18, 1943 (2 copies)
BOX 27 and box 75 Germany: Serial Publications, 1943-1945
German serials on the topic of the underground movements in Europe During World War II. Resistance Publications Addressed to German Soldiers and Civilians
Arranged alphabetically by publications of standard size and then by oversize.
BOX 27 Folder 1: Der Klabautermann
Jahrg.2, Nr. 6, Apr. 1943 (2 copies)
Folder 2: Unser Vaterland* Komitee der Bewegung Freies Deutschland in Sued-Frankreich
*Issue has notice above title” Ce journal est destiné aux soldats allemands”. See also oversize Box 15, Folder 1 for other issue.
Nr. 18, Sept. 1944
Folder 3: Volk und Vaterland Nationalkomitee “Freies Deutschland”. See also oversize Box 1, Folder 2 for other issues.
Nr. 1, Aug. 1943
Nr. 61, Aug. 1944
Nr. 64, Sept. 1944
Nr. 2, Dec. 1944
Jahrg. 2, Nr. 4, Jan.1945
BOX 75 Folder 1: Unser Vaterland Komitee der Bewegung Freies Deutschland in Sued-Frankreich. See also Box 1, Folder 2 for other issue.
2. Jahrg., Nr. 21 (Undated)
Folder 2: Volk und Vaterland* Komitee der Bewegung Freies Deutschland fuer Den Westen
*Feb. issues have notice above title: “Diffuse this anti-nazi paper among German War Prisoners”. See also Box 1, Folder 3 for other issues.
2. Jahrg., Nr. 1 (Undated)
Nrs. 5, 6, Feb. (Both) 1945
Folder 3: An alle deutschen Christen! A leaflet containing excerpts from sermons given in German churches criticizing the Nazi regime. (Undated)
BOX 27 Germany: Miscellaneous Publications, 1944
German miscellaneous materials on the topic Underground Movements in Europe During World War II. Includes: Leaflets, Letters, Memos, etc.
Arranged alphabetically by title. oversize items in separate series organized geographically in alphabetical order and then alphabetically by serial title and then by date.
Folder 4: A Tous les Officiers Allemands ... L’Union des Officiers Allemands du Camp de Vernet Rattachée au “Allemagne Libre” pour l’Ouest. A leaflet addressed to German prisoners of war urging them to reject the authority of the Nazi regime in order to prepare for the reconstruction of post-war Germany. In French. (Undated)
Folder 5: Aachen ruft zum Kampf gegen Hitler. Komitee der Bewegung Freies Deutschland für den Westen. A flyer urging German resistance to Hitler after a German army general was removed from command because he wished to surrender the city of Aachen to the Americans in order to prevent civilian casualties and the destruction of historical sites. (Undated)
Folder 6: Alle Waffen gegen Hitler! = Toutes les armes contre Hitler! Komitee des “Freies Deutschland” für den Westen. A pamphlet of the first conference of the “Freies Deutschland” committee in Paris on Nov. 13, 1944. (Undated) 24 pages.
Folder 7: An Alle Deutschen in Gross-Paris Der Komitee “Freies Deutschland”. A leaflet announcing to German soldiers that with the uprising in Paris commanded by the F.F.I., their position in France has become more perilous. Hitler has betrayed them to their enemies, justifying their desertion.
Folder 8: An die Männer der Wehrmacht an der Westfront! Das Komitee der Bewegung “Freies Deutschland”. A leaflet appealing to German soldiers that after the surrender of Gen. Cholditz in Paris they should hasten the end of a lost war by deserting.
Sept. 4, 1944.
Folder 9: An die Wehrmachtsangehörigen im Kessel von St. Nazaire und Lorient Das Komitee der Bewegung “Freies Deutschland”. A leaflet urging German soldiers to surrender to the Allies because further resistance endangers their families at home. (Undated)
Folder 10: Appel aux Mineurs, Cheminors, Forgerons et Métallurgistes de l’Allemagne de l’Ouest Le Comite “Allemagne Libre” pour l’Ouest. A leaflet appealing to German civilians working in German factories to commit acts of sabotage since victory over the Nazis is eminent. In French.
Jan. 28, 1944. 3 pages.
Folder 11: Deutscher Soldat III Division der Nationalarmee ELLAS. A Communist leaflet apparently distributed to German soldiers in occupied Greece urging them to surrender.
July 14, 1944.
Folder 12: “Deux (2) Lettres de Soldats Allemands de Côtes de France”. Manuscript. Two letters written by a German wife to her husband at the front in France.
October 17, 1944 and Nov. 13, [1944?] (Both mutilated)
Folder 13: Du bist nicht allein-Du kannst was tun! A brief pamphlet urging German civilians, especially those whose family members have been imprisoned, to organize resistance groups. (Undated) 4 pages.
Folder 14: Folgt dem Heldenhaften Beispiel des Hauptfeldwebels Fischer! Komitee der Bewegung “Freies Deutschland” für den Westen. A leaflet urging German soldiers to follow the example of Captain Fischer who detoured the shipment of 4,000 grenades on Aug. 8, [194?] who was subsequently captured and shot. Also attached is a free pass to safely enter Allied lines as a prisoner. (Undated)
Folder 15: Die Heimat im Kampf gegen die Gewaltherrschaft Himmlers. Komitee der Bewegung “Freies Deutschland” für den Westen. A leaflet urging German soldiers and civilians to form small resistance cells to oppose the Gestapo. A “peace” rally of 70,000 people in Munich is mentioned. (Undated)
Folder 16: Hitler trägt den Krieg nach Deutschland A leaflet describing the surrender of 26 generals on the Russian front and the punishment German soldiers under A. Kesselring are receiving in Italy. It offers suggestions for continued resistance to the Hitler war machine. (Undated)
Folder 17: Kameraden, der Hitler Krieg ist verloren ... Die Bewegung “Freies Deutschland.” Abschnitt Lorient und St. Nazaire. A leaflet urging German soldiers to use their weapons against the Hitler regime because has led them into a trap.
Folder 18: Kameraden, Macht Schluss mit den Kriegsverlängern! Komitee der Bewegung “Freies Deutschland” für den Westen. A leaflet with a published letter dated Oct. 14, 1944 to a German officer asking him to surrender his unit to the Allies who will treat them according to the terms of the Geneva Convention. The letter’s offer was rejected by this officer and the leaflet urges his men to desert. (Undated)
Folder 19: Der Katastrophe entgegen. A leaflet containing the text of a message issued by Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at the Tehran conference. (Undated) (2 copies)
Folder 20: Macht Schluss, ehe es zu spät ist! Komitee der Bewegung “Freies Deutschland” für den Westen. A leaflet urging German soldiers to surrender because it is their responsibility to stop the deployment of the “Volkssturm” which will allow the murder of the very young and old among their countrymen. (Undated)
Folder 21: Manifest des Nationalkomitees “Freies Deutschland” an die Wehrmacht und an das deustche Volk. A pamphlet urging resitance to Hitler, Germany’s greatest enemy. (Undated)
Folder 23: Officiers et Soldats! Le Comité “Allemagne Libre” pour l”Ouest. A leaflet advising German soldiers to desert Hitler in order to spare their wives and children further suffering from the war. In French.
Dec. 1944.
Folder 24: Officiers et Soldats du Groupe d’Armée de l’Ouest. A leaflet urging German soldiers to desert the Army and form resistance groups to fight the S.S. and the Gestapo. In French. (Undated)
Folder 25: Offiziere und Soldaten! A leaflet urging German soldiers to stop the war in order to spare their children further suffering. Issued by “Frauen aus den westdeutschen Kampfgebieten.” (Undated)
Folder 25: Offiziere und Soldaten! A leaflet urging German soldiers to stop the war in order to spare their children further suffering. Issued by “Frauen aus den westdeutschen Kampfgebieten.” (Undated)
Folder 26: Proklamation Nr. 1 an das deutsche Volk! Militärregierung-Deutschland. An official order from General Eisenhower proclaiming that with the entry of his forces into Germany all Nazi government agencies are stripped of their authority, and all courts and educational institutions are suspended. Military and Party leaders, Gestapo and others accused of atrocities will face trial. Resistance to Allied forces will be ruthlessly crushed. On the verso are comments issued by Roosevelt and Churchill. In German and English. (Undated) 2 pages.
Folder 27: Verweigert dem Selbstmordbefehl Models den Gehorsam! Komitee der Bewegung “Freies Deutschland” für den Westen. A leaflet addressed to German soldiers in small pockets bypassed by the Allied forces that their resistance is useless and they should disobey Hitler and surrender. (Undated)
Folder 28: Die Yorkschen und Luetzowschen sind mit uns! Komitee der Bewegung “Freies Deutschland” für den Westen. A leaflet comparing the qualities of Prussian generals who abandoned the tyrant Napoleon to those German generals who have deserted the present day tyrant Hitler. (Undated)
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