Libération-Sud
Front Page of Libération Newspaper, May 1944
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| Motto | Un Seul Chef: De Gaulle - Une Seul Lutte: Pour Notre Patrie (One leader: De Gaulle - One struggle: for our homeland) |
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| Formation | December 1940 |
| Extinction | 1944 |
| Purpose | Armed resistance and organised propaganda |
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| Leader | Emmanuel d'Astier, Raymond Aubrac |
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Key people
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Jean Cavaillès, Pierre Kaan, Lucie Aubrac |
Libération-sud (French for "Liberation-South") was a resistance group active between 1940-1944 and created in the Free Zone of France during the Second World War in order to fight against the Nazi occupation through coordinated sabotage and propaganda operations.
Libération-Sud was established in the Free Zone of Clermont-Ferrand by an assortment of French intellectuals and activists including Emmanuel d'Astier, Pierre Kaan, Jean Cavaillès, Lucie Aubrac and Raymond Aubrac. The first important Resistant group to emerge after the German occupation, it began publishing Libération in July 1941. With the support of Daniel Mayer and the clandestine French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO, socialist party), the Libération-sud group grew rapidly.
In 1942 Emmanuel d'Astier entered talks with Jean Moulin about the possibility of uniting all the resistance groups working in France. After much discussion Moulin persuaded the eight major resistance groups to form the Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR, National Council of Resistance). This included D'Astier's Libération-Sud as well as Combat (Henri Frenay), Franc-Tireur (Jean-Pierre Lévy), National Front (Pierre Villon), Comité d'Action Socialiste (Pierre Brossolette) and the Armée secrète (Charles Delestraint).
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