FTP-MOI were a sub-grouping of the Francs-tireurs et partisans movement in the French Resistance to the German occupation of France during World War II.
It originated from the Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée.
FTP-MOI -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francs-T...'Oeuvre_Immigrée

The FTP-MOI groups were had been created in the Paris region at the same time as the Francs-tireurs et partisans, in 1941.
Their ranks were filled with members from the Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée.
Foreign communists living in France but not part of the French Communist Party had been put in place in May 1942.
Although integrated with the FTP, these groups depended directly on Jacques Duclos, who passed on orders from the Communist International (Comintern).

The FTP-MOI were among the most active and determined resistance groups, particularly as being foreigners,
and mostly Jews, they were under the direct watch of the Vichy regime, which left them no choices but secrecy or internment.
Because they depended directly on the Comintern, with Duclos as intermediary, it was often they who were on the front line when the order to fight came from Moscow.

The Parisian groups were initially led by Boris Holban, then Missak Manouchian.
When Manouchian was arrested, Holban took over again from the beginning of 1944.

Their trial was held in front of a German military tribunal at the hôtel Continental.
It began on 17 February 1944, lasted between two and four days, and after a 30-minute deliberation, reached the following verdict:
23 accused were condemned to death, with no possibility of appeal.
22 were shot immediately on the 21 February 1944 at mont Valérien.
The execution of Olga Bancic was suspended for further enquiry.
In a new sentence passed on the 10 May 1944 at Stuttgart, she was condemned to death and promptly beheaded by axe.
One accused, Migratulski, was transferred to French jurisdiction.

1944 - The red poster reads:
"Liberators? Liberation by the army of crime!"
GRZYWACZ: Polish Jew, 2 terrorist attacks
ELEK: Juif Hungarian Jew, 5 derailments
WASJBROT: Polish Jew, 1 terrorist attack, 1 derailment
WITCHITZ: Polish Jew, 15 terrorist attacks - although it is unclear if Witchitz was in fact Jewish or Polish
FINGERCWAJG: Polish Jew, 3 terrorist attacks, 5 derailments)
BOCZOV: Hungarian Jew, chief of derailment operations, 20 terrorist attacks
FONTANOT: Italian Communist, 12 terrorist attacks. His correct name was Fontano
ALFONSO: Red Spaniard, 2 terrorist attacks
RAYMAN: Polish Jew, 13 terrorist attacks
MANOUCHIAN: Armenian, boss of the gang, 56 terrorist attacks, 150 dead, 600 wounded

Affiche Rouge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiche_...
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiche_...
http://l-afficherouge-manouchian.haut...
"La traque de l'affiche rouge" (1 - 4):
1) - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39u...
2) - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39u...
3) - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39u...
4) - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39v...

- same France TV 2006
La traque de l'Affiche rouge
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/cat...
L'affiche rouge (Poem)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'affiche_rouge_(Poem)

Heroes and Martyrs of the Resistance - France 1940-45
The Manouchian Group (The Last Letters)
http://www.marxists.org/history/franc...

Vichy France:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_Fr...

"There was such a friendship between us,
between all these people coming from everywhere,
Jews, Spanish, Italians, Germans, Armenians and French of course.
A brotherly friendship which surpassed all that you can imagine"
Arsene Tchakarian, of Armenian origin,
One of the only two survivors of a group called Groupe Manouchian under FTP-MOI, Paris.

The Army of Crime (French: L'armée du crime)
is a 2009 French drama/war film directed by Robert Guédiguian.
YouTube Playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...

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