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Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2004 15: 56
To: foroporlamemoria@pce.es
Subject: Cemeteries French.
Dear colleagues: I was recently part of the French Pyrenees. We were surprised how beautiful they were the cemeteries, so we went to verlos.Sobre the tombstones had multiple plates framed reminders of the dead for having fought in the resistance. We were warming to see this and continue looking. What was our surprise when the most neglected of individual tombstones cemetery names Castilians, Basques, Catalans etc. In some of these headstones had warnings that had happened within the tenant's occupation and if anyone came back to pay the rent were available to hold someone back. The date of many deaths (of birth was not) coincided with the war, some of them put workers chantier ¨ ¨. I guess you know all this already. But just in case I mention you. Having discovered this repeated in several cemeteries, all from small towns and the tone was repeated but not as often as we buscabamos.De should still be a daunting task, track all the cemeteries in France. We knew that the south of France had been liberated from the Nazis by the guerrillas Iberian, which we think that maybe there are busque.Port missing if someone serves you something, I went to France for parallel Somport and walked across the border to leave by the Vall d'Aran. I did not enter any cemetery in major towns such as Lourdes, Pau or Luchon, only small cemeteries easier to comb.
The third of the great feats of Cristino was the battle of the Madeleine, famous throughout France. This was one of the most important actions of the guerrillas of the 21 th Brigade, 3rd Division, commanded by Cristino.
mid-August 1944, and made the Allied landing in Normandy, the fighters are ordered to hinder the German maneuvers designed maximum to accumulate reserves in areas close to the landing. Cristino is reported that a column in the output of Toulouse Wehrmacht march to Paris. Has been seen in Albi and Beziers and the world seems nothing will hinder his march towards the area where you will enter combat.
The column, from Saint-Hyppolite, will be forced through the junction of the Madeleine, near Tornac, near the castle of the same name, in the direction of Anduze or Nimes. Caracoles The narrow road through a dense forest, cross the railroad bridge Lezana-Anduze and continues for a stretch of straight and clear.
On August 24, 1944, at dawn, a detachment of thirty-four guerrillas 21 Brigade under Commander Gabriel Perez, arrive there. Then do four FTPF French in the battle hardened men and experts familiar with that field, advising them in detail where to locate. Take a stand on the heights surrounding Tornac Castle, which overlooks the road and the railway embankment, while specialists in handling dynamite tracks placed explosive charges under the two bridges: the road and rail.
seem to be willing to surrender and fifteen German officers come to parley with the English command. As a prerequisite say only surrender to the Regular Army officers and soldiers not to hand. By the guerrillas will propose that, if they come with two or three of its senior officers will accompany you to see the gendarmerie commander French Anduze, the nearest place where they are.
I say agree and is committed to a truce of two hours. Two officers were taken to enemies I went to negotiate with the English leaders in the presence of the French Gendarmerie, represented by the post commander, the only regular representation of the region. The Germans insist that they allow free passage, promising in return not to attack the guerrillas. Cristino, according to the commander of the Gendarmerie, proposes, instead, to surrender unconditionally.
Germans before the end of the bargain, thinking to surprise the besiegers, breaking the truce by launching a furious attack on guerrilla positions with artillery, tanks, mortars and automatic weapons, which extends over two hours. While they fight, they get a little boost of several dozen rebels and French gendarmes, who had repeatedly asked the command post of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). This allows them to strengthen lines of defense, filling the gaps in their positions and close a little better the siege of the attacking forces.
Halfway through the morning, you see a German soldier waving a white flag, one of the officers gets up and goes to him. Just a few steps, restart the massive shooting, followed by a strong attack against guerrilla positions. Given the difficulties faced to penetrate our line of defense, desperate and powerless, stormed forward in a third attack, willing to break the ram that prevents them from moving, and perhaps had achieved had not intervened in time, as "falling from the sky "British aviation, flying at ground level so as not to miss the mark, start throwing fire and dropping bombs on German lines, causing panic, confusion, and left on the ground dozens and dozens of dead and wounded Germans . Demoralized by the unexpected attack aviation English at noon raise the white flag and surrender, this time without conditions. A few hundred Germans
are taken prisoner, also left to French guerrilla large quantities of arms and ammunition, more machine guns, anti-tanks, trucks and light armored. His chief Konrad A. Nietzsche Martin is naked, burning clothing and documents, fuel is sprayed, glued fire and shoot the wall, unable to cope with the panic of falling into the hands of a handful of guerrillas and ashamed for having capitulated so insignificant forces. Consummated the surrender, his own colleagues come to collect the wounded and sick, approximate number two hundred, to evacuate the French hospitals, while the dead are buried in the vicinity of which had been the battlefield. From the English side, there are only three bullet wounds, fortunately without serious any of them.
The names of the fighters who participated in the contest were: Gabriel Pérez, Gregorio Izquierdo, Antonio Fernández, Joaquín Arasanz, Pedro Vicente, Angel Suarez, Francisco Carranque, Antonio Espada, Francisco Estévez, Luis Fernández, Joaquín Almazón, Alejandro Moreno, Eduardo Fuertes, José Sanz, Sabino Encina, Eduardo Puente, Victoriano Huerta, Severo Ferrials, Pascual Fernández, Julio Béjar, Francisco Esteban, Julio Rodriguez. For his part in the battle of the Madeleine, they were all named in the General Order 35, by General Ollería division, commander of Military Region IX, which involves the award of the Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, in Marseille, on October 25, 1946. This memorable battle won the German army put an end to the participation of English guerrillas in the fight against Germanic occupation troops in France. For many of them were, however, the beginning of another page, actually continuing the fight against the Franco dictatorship that ended six years after the English Civil War in the years 1936-39, was persecuting, torturing and shooting at our country by the mere fact of having political ideas and try to organize for better able to defend them. This time, the fight would be in the homeland against the oppressive regime and in defense of freedom and democracy in Spain. -------------------------------------------------
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chantier Workers ¨ ¨. English forest factories where organized resistance began under the banner of the Communist Party. Chantier hundreds of workers from French cemeteries scattered . On the date of death were fighting the Nazis, except for die another death. Muertos out of memory, which forgets Franco seems normal, very normal. But what about Democracy ¨ ¨? No interest, no died against Franco. They are not media. They have their Garzón. They were just some guys who died after take years to war against an enemy who changed his name, but for them it was always the same. Some guys who by now probably have lost their piece of land, unmarked, unnamed at the end of the concession. Some guys who, unlike the French who died for his country, had no flowers, no one cared for their graves and had to strain his eyes to distinguish between the dirt, his name on the headstone insctrito. Some guys that one day they fought for a better world and were lucky to die, sword in hand, not knowing the shit that would become communism. Chantier only were workers with a English name. They are just forgotten and neglected history of his country.
that someday I would write something about it. I've done.
To learn more about this fascinating history of the liberation of Southern France, the best thing I know is ¨ last quest. Republicans who defeated Hitler. ¨ Secundino of Serrano.
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2004 15: 56
To: foroporlamemoria@pce.es
Subject: Cemeteries French.
Dear colleagues: I was recently part of the French Pyrenees. We were surprised how beautiful they were the cemeteries, so we went to verlos.Sobre the tombstones had multiple plates framed reminders of the dead for having fought in the resistance. We were warming to see this and continue looking. What was our surprise when the most neglected of individual tombstones cemetery names Castilians, Basques, Catalans etc. In some of these headstones had warnings that had happened within the tenant's occupation and if anyone came back to pay the rent were available to hold someone back. The date of many deaths (of birth was not) coincided with the war, some of them put workers chantier ¨ ¨. I guess you know all this already. But just in case I mention you. Having discovered this repeated in several cemeteries, all from small towns and the tone was repeated but not as often as we buscabamos.De should still be a daunting task, track all the cemeteries in France. We knew that the south of France had been liberated from the Nazis by the guerrillas Iberian, which we think that maybe there are busque.Port missing if someone serves you something, I went to France for parallel Somport and walked across the border to leave by the Vall d'Aran. I did not enter any cemetery in major towns such as Lourdes, Pau or Luchon, only small cemeteries easier to comb.
A hug, continue with your work.
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------------- Dear compñaero:
Much work remains ahead. There are few resources and fewer means, but here we are doing what we can and trying to create structures to get to everything and everywhere.
Thanks for the information and a fraternal hug
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(Mails copied verbatim, misspellings of both parties are the product of improvisation.)
As can be seen at the junction of mails, back in 2004 when the narrative detail caught my attention. Interested, I soon discovered that the South of France was liberated from Nazism by the English. So much was this release that de Gaulle himself scares before the literal fact of having English armed gangs controlling the South. A dark episode for ¨ The grandeur of France "where we seem to every Frenchman was a strong and obvious that there were more felons who croissants.
I bring, copied from here, one of the feats of these English and no country, no other horizon than fight fascism wherever they find themselves:
THE BATTLE OF THE MADELEINE.
mid-August 1944, and made the Allied landing in Normandy, the fighters are ordered to hinder the German maneuvers designed maximum to accumulate reserves in areas close to the landing. Cristino is reported that a column in the output of Toulouse Wehrmacht march to Paris. Has been seen in Albi and Beziers and the world seems nothing will hinder his march towards the area where you will enter combat.
The column, from Saint-Hyppolite, will be forced through the junction of the Madeleine, near Tornac, near the castle of the same name, in the direction of Anduze or Nimes. Caracoles The narrow road through a dense forest, cross the railroad bridge Lezana-Anduze and continues for a stretch of straight and clear.
On August 24, 1944, at dawn, a detachment of thirty-four guerrillas 21 Brigade under Commander Gabriel Perez, arrive there. Then do four FTPF French in the battle hardened men and experts familiar with that field, advising them in detail where to locate. Take a stand on the heights surrounding Tornac Castle, which overlooks the road and the railway embankment, while specialists in handling dynamite tracks placed explosive charges under the two bridges: the road and rail.
Around three in the afternoon, those who stand guard sighted in the distance a group of riders heading a large German army column, composed of sixty trucks, three guns and five tanks, with a thousand and a half men. After a brief exchange of views, in command are given strict orders to stay each in his post pending the column was approaching the bridge and part of it began to meet, from which point they would fly bridge , between the junction of the road and people Tornac, whose population in anticipation of events had been evacuated the night before.
The guerrilla chief gives order to blow up the bridge, cutting off the railway and highway. A new explosion intersects the road behind the column. The caravan is Germanic immobilized unable to advance or retreat.
is engaged in a fierce battle which lasted until nightfall. Germans believe that enemy forces are far superior in numbers and weaponry, they play a ceasefire. The reality is that you have placed in strategic locations chosen and the fire can be concentrated where they are bound to happen. Bewildered, the Teutons decided to form a box to prevent surprise attacks and resist until night comes. After late at night, their tanks trying to break the siege that they have done, which offers vulnerable flanks. To stop the advance of tanks, stands a group of bombers, which achieves rapid and accurate disable four tanks and leave "stuck" on the site to the attacking forces, who do not return to make another attempt until the following day, when, good morning, five German officers, a white flag, come to parley. seem to be willing to surrender and fifteen German officers come to parley with the English command. As a prerequisite say only surrender to the Regular Army officers and soldiers not to hand. By the guerrillas will propose that, if they come with two or three of its senior officers will accompany you to see the gendarmerie commander French Anduze, the nearest place where they are.
I say agree and is committed to a truce of two hours. Two officers were taken to enemies I went to negotiate with the English leaders in the presence of the French Gendarmerie, represented by the post commander, the only regular representation of the region. The Germans insist that they allow free passage, promising in return not to attack the guerrillas. Cristino, according to the commander of the Gendarmerie, proposes, instead, to surrender unconditionally.
Germans before the end of the bargain, thinking to surprise the besiegers, breaking the truce by launching a furious attack on guerrilla positions with artillery, tanks, mortars and automatic weapons, which extends over two hours. While they fight, they get a little boost of several dozen rebels and French gendarmes, who had repeatedly asked the command post of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). This allows them to strengthen lines of defense, filling the gaps in their positions and close a little better the siege of the attacking forces.
are taken prisoner, also left to French guerrilla large quantities of arms and ammunition, more machine guns, anti-tanks, trucks and light armored. His chief Konrad A. Nietzsche Martin is naked, burning clothing and documents, fuel is sprayed, glued fire and shoot the wall, unable to cope with the panic of falling into the hands of a handful of guerrillas and ashamed for having capitulated so insignificant forces. Consummated the surrender, his own colleagues come to collect the wounded and sick, approximate number two hundred, to evacuate the French hospitals, while the dead are buried in the vicinity of which had been the battlefield. From the English side, there are only three bullet wounds, fortunately without serious any of them.
The names of the fighters who participated in the contest were: Gabriel Pérez, Gregorio Izquierdo, Antonio Fernández, Joaquín Arasanz, Pedro Vicente, Angel Suarez, Francisco Carranque, Antonio Espada, Francisco Estévez, Luis Fernández, Joaquín Almazón, Alejandro Moreno, Eduardo Fuertes, José Sanz, Sabino Encina, Eduardo Puente, Victoriano Huerta, Severo Ferrials, Pascual Fernández, Julio Béjar, Francisco Esteban, Julio Rodriguez. For his part in the battle of the Madeleine, they were all named in the General Order 35, by General Ollería division, commander of Military Region IX, which involves the award of the Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, in Marseille, on October 25, 1946. This memorable battle won the German army put an end to the participation of English guerrillas in the fight against Germanic occupation troops in France. For many of them were, however, the beginning of another page, actually continuing the fight against the Franco dictatorship that ended six years after the English Civil War in the years 1936-39, was persecuting, torturing and shooting at our country by the mere fact of having political ideas and try to organize for better able to defend them. This time, the fight would be in the homeland against the oppressive regime and in defense of freedom and democracy in Spain. -------------------------------------------------
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chantier Workers ¨ ¨. English forest factories where organized resistance began under the banner of the Communist Party. Chantier hundreds of workers from French cemeteries scattered . On the date of death were fighting the Nazis, except for die another death. Muertos out of memory, which forgets Franco seems normal, very normal. But what about Democracy ¨ ¨? No interest, no died against Franco. They are not media. They have their Garzón. They were just some guys who died after take years to war against an enemy who changed his name, but for them it was always the same. Some guys who by now probably have lost their piece of land, unmarked, unnamed at the end of the concession. Some guys who, unlike the French who died for his country, had no flowers, no one cared for their graves and had to strain his eyes to distinguish between the dirt, his name on the headstone insctrito. Some guys that one day they fought for a better world and were lucky to die, sword in hand, not knowing the shit that would become communism. Chantier only were workers with a English name. They are just forgotten and neglected history of his country.
that someday I would write something about it. I've done.
To learn more about this fascinating history of the liberation of Southern France, the best thing I know is ¨ last quest. Republicans who defeated Hitler. ¨ Secundino of Serrano.
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