kvetchlandia: The Notorious “l’Affiche Rouge” (Red Poster), Put Out by the Nazis a
kvetchlandia: The Notorious “l’Affiche Rouge” (Red Poster), Put Out by the Nazis and Picturing Militants of the Anti-Fascist FTP-MOI Resistance Group, Led by Missak Manouchian and Comprised Largely of Leftist Immigrants to France 1944The Affiche Rouge pictures 10 of the 23 members of the Manouchian Group who had been arrested after having been betrayed by a former comrade and who would soon be executed. The Poster reads, in English: “Liberators? Liberation by the Army of Crime!” It then pictures several of the captured militants and describes them:GRZYWACZ: Juif polonais, 2 attentats (Polish Jew, 2 terrorist attacks)ELEK: Juif hongrois, 5 déraillements (Hungarian Jew, 5 derailments)WASJBROT: Juif polonais, 1 attentat, 1 déraillement (Polish Jew, 1 terrorist attack, 1 derailment)WITCHITZ: Juif polonais, 15 attentats (Polish Jew, 15 terrorist attacks) FINGERCWAJG: Juif polonais, 3 attentats, 5 déraillements (Polish Jew, 3 terrorist attacks, 5 derailments)BOCZOV: Juif hongrois, chef dérailleur, 20 attentats (Hungarian Jew, chief of derailment operations, 20 terrorist attacks)FONTANOT: Communiste italien, 12 attentats (Italian Communist, 12 terrorist attacks. His correct name was Fontano)ALFONSO: Espagnol rouge, 2 attentats (Red Spaniard, 2 terrorist attacks)RAYMAN: Juif polonais, 13 attentats (Polish Jew, 13 terrorist attacks)MANOUCHIAN: Arménien, chef de bande, 56 attentats, 150 morts, 600 blessés (Armenian, boss of the gang, 56 terrorist attacks, 150 dead, 600 wounded)Although the poster was designed to whip up anti-communism and anti-Semitism, it had the opposite effect. The public viewed the Resistance martyrs as freedom fighters and historians have documented evidence that the local population in communities where the Nazis placed the posters wrote “Morts pour la France” (They Died for France), the official language long used on memorials to military heroes who had died fighting for France, on the posters and, at great risk to themselves, placed flowers beneath the posters. -- source link
Tumblr Blog : kvetchlandia.tumblr.com