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Encyclopedia > Affiche Rouge
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The Affiche Rouge.

The Affiche Rouge ("Red poster") was a famous Nazi propanganda poster during the Occupation of France.


The 23 members of the urban guerrilla Manouchian Group, part of the communist Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée (FTP-MOI) was arrested by the French police on November 16th 1943 and executed by the Nazis on 21st February 1944. Distinguish from the type of ape called a gorilla. ... The Affiche Rouge. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...


The goup was made of 8 Polish, 5 Italians, 3 Hungarians, 2 Armenians, a Spaniard, a Roumanian and three French. Nine were Jew. Romanian is: Of or pertaining to Romania The Romanian people The Romanian language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...


The Nazis made the propaganda poster Affiche Rouge [1] ("red poster") to portrait the Resistance as terrorists and foreign criminals. Some sources estimate 150000 Affiche Rouge were posted. Resistance can mean one of: electrical resistance inner resistance antibiotic resistance resistance to a disease (see related subject immunology) a political or military resistance movement against foreign occupation, or more rarely, against ones own government geological resistance fluid resistance thermal resistance This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid...


The poster reads:

Des libérateurs ? La libération par l'armée du crime !
"Liberators ? A liberation by the army of Crime !"

From left to right, and top to bottom, individual portaits are labeled:

  • GRZYWACZ: Juif polonais, 2 attentats (Polish Jew, 2 terrorist attacks)
  • ELEK: Juif hongrois, 5 déraillements (Hungarian Jew, 5 derailments)
  • WASIRROT: Juif polonais, 1 attentat, 1 déraillement (Polish Jew, 1 terrorist attack, 1 derailment)
  • WITCHITZ: Juif hongrois, 15 attentats (Hungarian Jew, 15 terrorist attacks)
  • TINGERWESG: 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)
  • ALFONSO: Espagnol rouge, 2 attentats (Red Spaniard, 2 terrorist attacks)
  • RATMAN: Juif polonais, 13 attentats (Polish Jew, 13 terrorist attacks)
  • MANOUCHIAN: Arménien, chef de bande, 56 attentats, 150 morts, 600 blessés (Aremnian, chief of gang, 56 terrorist attacks, 150 dead, 600 wounded)

At the bottom are featured photographs of

  • a dead body torso featuring several bullet impacts
  • a dead body lying on the ground
  • a derailed locomotive
  • a derailed train
  • a table with small firearms
  • a derailed train

The poster became one of the symbols of French Resistance. Louis Aragon wrote a eulogy: L'affiche rouge in Le roman inachevé (1956). Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 - December 24, 1982), French historian, poet and novelist. ...


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Affiche Rouge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (310 words)
The Affiche Rouge ("Red Poster") was a famous Nazi propaganda poster during the Occupation regime in France.
The twenty-three members of an urban guerrilla group led by Missak Manouchian, a part of the communist Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée (FTP-MOI), were arrested by the French police on November 16, 1943 and executed by the Nazis on February 21, 1944.
In 1956, Louis Aragon wrote the eulogy L'affiche rouge in Le roman inachevé.
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