Claude Bourdet, son of the dramatic author Édouard Bourdet, was a writer, journalist, polemist, and a militant French politician, who was born in 1909 and died in 1996 in Paris. He was a son of the poet Catherine Pozzi. Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ...

He left the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with an engineering diploma in technical physics in 1933. After his military service in the Artillerie de Montagne, he was put in charge of a mission for the Economy Ministry, during the government of the Front populaire. ETH Zurich (from its German name Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ) is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

He was very active in French Resistance movements. He participated in the foundation of the resistance newspaper Combat along with Frenay, of which he was a member of the management committee, until the departure of Frenay to London and later Algeria in 1943, when he was made its representative. From 1942 he took part in the creation and development of the newspaper with the task of dividing the public administrations. The French Resistance is the name used for resistance movements during World War II which fought the German occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy regime, and was a vital and some say decisive factor in the defeat of Hitler and the Nazi revolution. ... Combate Naval de Iquique - oil on canvas painting by Thomas Somerscales, XIX century Combat, or fighting, is purposeful violent conflict between one or more persons or organizations, often intended to establish dominance over the opposition. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...

In 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo, and was deported to many concentration camps (Neuengamme, Sachsenhausen et Buchenwald). Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... The   (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei; Secret State Police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ... Neuengamme was a concentration camp near Hamburg, Germany during World War 2 [1]. The site is one of the few concentration camps in Germany where most of the buildings have been conserved and serves as a memorial today. ... Sachsenhausen may refer to a quarter of Oranienburg in Germany, see Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg), and a detention facility here a quarter of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, see Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt am Main) a municipality of Weimarer Land, see Sachsenhausen (Thüringen) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which... Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp (Elie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left). ...

After the war, he continued to write in Combat, but his conflict with the owner of the newspaper, Henri Smadja, returned. He left the newspaper in 1950. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

With Gilles Martinet and Roger Stéphane in 1950 he formed L’Observateur, which became L’Observateur Aujourd’hui in 1953, and then the France-Observateur in 1954. Claude Bourdet defended the union of the left and social justice. He supported the anti-colonial fight, denouncing repression in Madagascarand torture in Algeria. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: Tanindrazana, Fahafahana, Fandrosoana(Malagasy) Ancestral-land, Liberty, Progress Anthem: Ry Tanindraza nay malala ô Oh, Our Beloved Ancestral-land Capital (and largest city) Antananarivo Official languages Malagasy, French[1] Government Republic  - President Marc Ravalomanana  - Prime Minister Charles Rabemananjara Independence from France   - Date 26 June 1960  Area  - Total 587,041 km...

In 1961 he investigated and denounced the prefect of the police force Maurice Papon in connection with the shootings of Algerian FLN demonstrators on October 17 of that year, in the Paris massacre of 1961. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Maurice Papon (September 3, 1910 – February 17, 2007) was a former official of the French Vichy government who collaborated with Nazi Germany in World War II and was in charge of the Paris police during the Paris massacre of 1961. ... The National Liberation Front (French: Front de libération nationale, Arabic: Jabhah al-Taḩrīr al-Waţanī) is a socialist political party in Algeria. ... October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

He also supported the Stalinist dictatorship in its worst demonstrations (Repression of the alleged plot of the Jewish general doctors of the Red Army). Also, his excessive political militancy created tensions which led to a major rupture of the France-Observateur team in 1963, and his subsequent departure from the newspaper. The Workers and Peasants Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия, Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya; RKKA or usually simply the Red Army) were the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and that in 1922 became the army of the Soviet Union. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...

He continued to publish articles in Témoignage chrétien, Politique Hebdo or Politis, and took part in the special numbers of the Nouvel Observateur.

Bibliography

• Le Schisme Yougoslave, 1950 (Editions de Minuit)
• Les Chemins de l'Unité, 1964 (Maspero)
• A qui appartient Paris, 1972 (Le Seuil)
• L'Aventure incertaine, de la résistance à la restauration, 1975 (Stock)
• L’Europe truquée. Supranationaliste, pacte atlantique, force de frappe, 1977 (Seghers)
• Mes batailles, 1993 (In fine)
• L'Afrique, l’aventure d’Albarka, Jean Suret-Canal et Claude Bourdet, 1973 (éd. du Burin-Martinsart)