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Madeleine Pauliac

Madeleine Pauliac was a French doctor, Resistance member and medical officer who organised rescue and repatriation missi...

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The Escadron bleu

The Escadron bleu was a mobile women’s unit of the French Red Cross, deployed in 1945 to search for, care for and repatr...

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James Stagg

James Stagg was a Scottish meteorologist whose weather forecasts helped determine the timing of Operation Overlord and t...

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Joseph Storck

Joseph Storck war Französischlehrer und Schulleiter in Limoges, der während der deutschen Besatzung jüdische Schüler sow...

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Germaine Ribière

Germaine Ribière, ein prominentes Mitglied der Résistance aus Limoges, trug während der deutschen Besatzung Frankreichs ...

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Gaston Guigouin

Georges Guingouin war eine der führenden Persönlichkeiten der französischen Résistance; er organisierte und befehligte d...

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Gaston Lévy

Gaston Lévy war ein französisch-jüdischer Arzt und Mitglied der Résistance, der während des Zweiten Weltkriegs eine Schl...

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August Meier

August Meier war ein deutscher Nazi-Offizier. Als Mitglied der SS (Schutzstaffel) befehligte er Einsatzkommando-Einheite...

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Eugene Bullard

Eugene Bullard was an American-born veteran who served France in both world wars and returned to combat in 1940 during t...

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The Liberation of Pistoia

After a year of German occupation, Pistoia was liberated on 8 September 1944. This followed a major operation by partisa...

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Father Libero Raglianti

Father Libero Raglianti was a Tuscan priest and partisan who was active in the Resistance in Versilia, where he distingu...

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Antonio Giuriolo

Antonio Giurolo was born in San Pietro a Castello di Arzignano (Vicenza) on 12 February 1912. He was known as “Capitano ...

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Mario Nanni

Mario Nanni was a partisan in the hills around Bologna. After the Second World War, he became a renowned artist. Towards...

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Gino Costantini

Gino Costantini, a railway worker from Vergato, was a valiant commander in the Reno Valley, working alongside the Modena...

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Father Luigi Tommasini

Father Luigi Tommasini, parish priest of Burzanella, was an opponent of fascism, chaplain to Italian workers in Germany,...

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Jean Moulin

Jean Moulin was a French prefect and Resistance leader who worked to unite the main Resistance movements under the autho...

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Peter Gingold

Peter Gingold was a German Jewish communist and anti-Nazi resistance member who was active in exile in France and fought...

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Ben Ferencz

Ben Ferencz was a Nuremberg prosecutor and one of the last surviving figures of the postwar trials, who dedicated his li...

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Frank Meier

Frank Meier was an Austrian-born barman who became a central figure at the Ritz in Paris, navigating the complex realiti...

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Jean Luchaire

Jean Luchaire was a French journalist and collaborationist figure during World War II, known for his early pro-Nazi stan...

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Total War in Maresca

Maresca was one of the most devastated towns in the entire province of Pistoia during the Second World War. Total war pr...

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Resistance, Deportation, and Massacres in Sambuca Pistoiese

During the Second World War, Sambuca Pistoiese was affected by roundups, deportations, massacres, and anti-partisan oper...

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Leone Ginzburg & Natalia Ginzburg

Leone Ginzburg, an anti-fascist intellectual and proponent of the Italian political idea of liberal socialism, was kille...

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General Stanisław "Sosab" Sosabowski

This well-known Polish soldier was born in 1892 in Galicia under Austrian rule. He quickly became the main provider for ...

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