Main d’Oeuvre Immigrée

• FTP - French Fighters and Partisans
• FTP

• EHRI Corporate Bodies
• Corporate Body
• Updated 8 years ago

1942/1944-02

The Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, set up in the spring of 1942, resulted from the merger of three militant communist groups: the Organisation Spéciale, formed in 1940 to protect communist leaders; the group of young communists, the first to attack German soldiers; and the fighters of the Main-d’Oeuvre Immigrée. The FTP was the military arm of the communist Front National, which decided that about 20 per cent of its members would take part in it. With the introduction of the abhorred Service du Travail Obligatoire, non-communists joined the FTP for self-protection to avoid work in Germany, as...

• National Movement against Racism
• MNCR

• EHRI Corporate Bodies
• Corporate Body
• Updated 1 decade ago

Founded in 1940

In the spring of 1940 the Communists created Mouvement National Contre le Racisme, though officially non-partisan, was in fact under the absolute control of the Jewish section of the Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée. It started two papers, J'accuse (in the occupied zones) and Fraternité (in the southern zone). Through them the 'French people' expressed their solidarity with the persecuted Jews.