The Resistance in the Pantheon
Alan Clinton considers the legendary Resistance fighter Jean Moulin, the memory of whose fate still makes waves in France today.
Fifty years ago, on June 21st, 1945 a gang of gestapo policemen led by the infamous Klaus Barbie raided a doctor's surgery at Caluire on the northern outskirts of Lyons. Among captured Resistance leaders they identified the president of the recently established CNR, the National Resistance Council and personal representative of General de Gaulle, Jean Moulin. Moulin was led away to be horribly tortured and he died, probably on July 8th on a train bound for Berlin. His sister Laure said that his death came 'at the limits of human suffering, without revealing a single secret, and he knew them all'.
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