Groupe Mario most important resistance group in Moselle

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Groupe Mario most important resistance group in Moselle

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Post by Georges JEROME » 31 Oct 2014, 16:30

The "Groupe Mario" was a resistance group created by Jean Burger nickname "mario" who has a network of member from left syndicate and communist party in the railways, steel industry and mining companies in the annexed department of Moselle as Zivilverwaltung Lothringen.
underground french propaganda leflets , help for escaped P.O.W. to cross german boundary with France, help to arrested members, sabotages (disturbing the railway traffic, destruction in industries), actions against farms of german settlers,
Not maquis because we were in germany and an armed resistance was not possible.
On september 1943, after the derailment of a train of soldiers on leave (Paris Vienne) at Hombourg Haut. A number of soldiers wounded.
Creation of the kommando Kappel (Hstuf Hans Kappel) Abteilung IV 2 B "Sabotage" of the Gestapo of Metz to fight against Groupe Mario. More than 700 members were arrested. The Wehrmacht was obliged to release the Fest Goeben (Fort Queuleu) at Metz to set up a SS-Sonderlager. (a police jail headed by Gestapo members). A number were tortured, killed some one were send in KL Strutthof or Dachau.

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