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Photo anthropométrique de Henri Chamberlin alias Henri Lafont. © Archives de la Préfecture de police
On 30 August 1944, Henri Chamberlin alias ”Henri Lafont” and several of his accomplices of the ”French Gestapo of Rue Lauriston” were arrested in Seine-et-Marne. The BCRA had been accumulating information on the man who had reigned over the Paris underworld during the Occupation for over three years. The file conserved by the SHD tells us much about the hidden aspects of the case, and sheds new light on the process that led to the execution of one of the most feared individuals of the period.
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It was a curious file that the French special services gathered on Henri Chamberlin, alias Henri Lafont. No fewer than 700 pages, showing that the head of the formidable ”French Gestapo of Rue Lauriston”, also known as the ”Carlingue”, was closely watched and that his activities had caught the eye of the BCRA's agents.
From the underworld to the ”Gestapo”
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French Resistance
French rebel groups that fought the Nazis in World War II
"La Résistance" redirects here. For other uses, see La Résistance (disambiguation).
The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationistVichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground newspapers. They also provided first-hand intelligence information, and escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind Axis lines. The Resistance's men and women came from many parts of French samhälle, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics (including clergy), Protestants, Jews, Muslims, liberals, anarchists, communists, and some fascists. The proportion of French people who participated in organized resistance has been esti
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The services of German repression in Occupied France
In this system, the men of the Feldgendarmerie, with their multiple tasks (checking movements and papers, overseeing the French forces of order etc.), were the most numerous - there were 6,000 at the end of 1941. The security troops (Landesschützenbataillone and Sicherheitstruppen) were chiefly responsible for monitoring sensitive points, the primary communication infrastructure and the German internment camps.
But it was the GFP that was in charge of major judicial investigations against the Resistance. Its men were career policemen, most from the criminal police, mobilised and transferred to these units after a short period of training. Twenty groups - each consisting of about a hundred men from February 1941 - patrolled the occupied zone, six of them in the Paris region. Each unit was commanded by a Feldpolizeidirektor assisted by two or three Feldpolizeikommissäre, five to seven Sekretäre and two Sonderführe