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The official AHF Resistance Movements quiz thread

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Post by Marcus » 03 Nov 2005, 09:24

We've had several different quizes running here in the forum for a while with great success and now that this new section has been opened, I'm starting one here too..

The rules are very simple:
The first one to post the correct answer to a question, posts a new question (must be on the resistance, either in Germany or in the occupied countries) and so on.

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Question

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Post by Matt Gibbs » 04 Nov 2005, 12:10

Ok, Marucs, here goes :
Which General officer was kidnapped with the help of Cretean resistants who were working with SOE in 1944..?
Its not too difficult, there's been a book and a film!
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Post by JPK » 04 Nov 2005, 14:33

Bonjour.
Generalmajor Heinrich Kreipe, kommandeur der 22.Infanterie Division, was kidnapped on 26.04.194
See: http://home.freeuk.com/johndillon/kidnap.htm
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Yup

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Post by Matt Gibbs » 06 Nov 2005, 02:56

Correct - spirited away after being held up with his car. Amusingly, the partisans and brit liason who did the actual hold up were apparently able to drive half way round the island by simply slowing up at official roadblocks until the troops registered it was the Generals car, who then saluted and waved them through - nice.
I guess that means it is your turn to post a question!
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Post by JPK » 06 Nov 2005, 09:01

Andy ask on Mar Sep 16, 2003 5:51 am
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=31819

Who was the French Resistance fighter who was executed by the Vichy Government? WHen he was about to be killed he said something like "I'm doing this for you, you fools!"

It is my question.

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Post by JPK » 10 Nov 2005, 15:00

No answer ?

Valentin Feldman.

http://www.corpusetampois.com/che-20-va ... ldman.html
http://histclo.hispeed.com/essay/war/ww ... resfr.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FRmusee.htm

One of the first know acts of public resistance to German occupation was a small demonstration by secondary school children at the Arc de Triomphe on November 11, 1940. The date was of course the date the Germans has agreed to the Allied terms for an armostace ending World War I. Another ealy act was by a group of scientists and lawyers in Paris who called themselves the Musée de L'Homme group. They were led by Boris Vilde and began publishing a clandestine newspaper calling on the French people to resist the Germans. The Group was infiltrated by a Vichy agent and virtually all the members arrested. They wre sentenced to death. Valentin Feldman, is reported to have yelled at the Vichy firing squad. "Imbeciles, it's for you, too that I die."


The Musée de L'Homme was infiltrated by a supporter of the Vichy government and as a result virtually all of the members were arrested. Vilde, Lewitsky, Feldman, Walter, Andrieu, Nordmann and Ithier were executed. It is claimed that Feldman shouted at the moment of execution: "Imbeciles, it's for you, too that I die." Women members of the group were sent to concentration camps but Tillion, Oddon, Simmonet, Leleu survived and obtained their freedom in 1945.


First one who want to put a question is welcome

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Post by G. Trifkovic » 10 Nov 2005, 18:09

What was the name of the Komintern/Partisan agent iz Zagreb whose secret radio-transmitter was allegedly one of the few in the whole of occupied Europe which Germans couldn't locate throughout the war?

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Post by BrankoB. » 10 Nov 2005, 23:48

Vladimir Velebit. He rented the apartment in Zagreb where the radio transmitter was, but I'm not sure if he's the one. I think that Valdes and his wife lived there also, but who was actually radio operator, hmmmm. my money's on Valdes
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Post by BrankoB. » 10 Nov 2005, 23:51

Correction- Velebit, I meant Velebit.
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Post by BrankoB. » 11 Nov 2005, 00:06

For those who don't know- Valdes aka Josip Kopinic Vazduh.,
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P.S. Maybe is actually him, oh Gaius, please help....

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Post by G. Trifkovic » 11 Nov 2005, 00:12

Hehe,my dearest friend:

Kopinic a.k.a. Valdes set up the Komintern radio-transmitter in 1940 with the help of Velebit,who was acting on Tito's (In the language of the Komintern "Walter") orders.

So,in the end,you're right.

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Post by BrankoB. » 11 Nov 2005, 00:38

Right, my turn, I guess…
She belonged to a famous family of Croatian Communists and Freedom Fighters. On 14. September 1944 she was arrested along with her brother. She was considered one of the most beautiful women in Yugoslavian resistance movement. She was a member of SKOJ- Yugoslavian communist youth. Her entire family, apart from one brother, was killed during these months. After horrific ordeals and transports back and forth between concentration camp in Jasenovac and then to Lepoglava she was eventually burned alive allegedly along with 2000 other prisoners, while locked in a train cart.
What was her name?
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Post by BrankoB. » 14 Nov 2005, 11:20

NO answer- here it is:
Her name is Jelena Uzelac.

First one to ask the next question is welcome.
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Post by Lupo Solitario » 14 Nov 2005, 14:37

who were the three leaders of Italian CVL in 1944-45 (hint: commander and two vice-commanders)?

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Post by Lupo Solitario » 24 Nov 2005, 20:44

no answers?

ok, I reduce the question to the name of commander only:

Hint 1): he had commanded an important army unit in defence of Rome in 1943
Hint 2): he was the son of a really important italian army commander of WWI...

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