Arts-et-Métiers in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe
l’Affiche Rouge
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The “Red Poster”
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 2, 2024
1. l’Affiche Rouge / The “Red Poster” Marker
de ceux de “l’Affiche Rouge”
et de leur chef militaire
le poete armenien
Missak Manouchian
qui utilisa cette maison
dans son combat clandestin
Celestino Alfonso · Olga Bancic
Joseph Boczor · Georges Cloarec
Rino Della Negra · Thomas Elek
Maurice Fingercweijg · Spartaco Fontano
Jonas Geduldig · Emeric Glasz
Léon Goldberg · Szlama Grzywacz
Stanislas Kubacki · Cesar Luccarini
Marcel Rajman · Roger Rouxel
Anton Salvadori · Willy Szapiro
Arpen Tavitian · Amedeo Usseglio
Wolf Wajsbrot · Robert Witchitz
Combattants
Francs-Tireurs Partisans
de la ”Main-d'Oeuvre Immigree”
Morts en 1944
pour la France et la Liberte
In memory of those of the “Red Poster” and their military leader, the Armenian poet Missak Manouchian, who used this house in his clandestine fight.
Celestino Alfonso · Olga Bancic
Joseph Boczor · Georges Cloarec
Rino Della Negra · Thomas Elek
Maurice Fingercweijg · Spartaco Fontano
Jonas Geduldig · Emeric Glasz
Léon Goldberg · Szlama Grzywacz
Stanislas Kubacki · Cesar Luccarini
Marcel Rajman · Roger Rouxel
Anton Salvadori · Willy Szapiro
Arpen Tavitian · Amedeo Usseglio
Wolf Wajsbrot · Robert Witchitz
Fighters - Francs-Tireurs Partisans of the “Immigrant Labor” group. Died in 1944 for France and Liberty.
Topics.
this page online
Location. 48° 51.874′ N, 2° 21.382′ E. Memorial is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Arts-et-Métiers. It is on Rue au Maire, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 19 Rue au Maire, Paris, Île-de-France 75003, France. Touch for directions.
Regionally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, Europe, the European Union, Atlantic Europe, the Schengen Area, Western Europe, a coastal Mediterranean country, and the Western World. Historically, it finds itself in what was once a French colony and also the Roman Empire.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Raymonde Royale (within shouting distance of this marker); David Liberman (about 120 meters away, measured in a direct line); L‘École Élémentaire Vertus Jewish Student Deportation Memorial (about 120 meters away); Pierre Pachet (about 120 meters away); Henri Chevessier (about 120 meters away); École Maternelle Chapon Deported Jewish Students Memorial
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 2, 2024
2. Affiche Rouge / “Red Poster” Marker - wide view
The marker is visible above the door on the right.
Also see . . . Affiche Rouge (Wikipedia). Excerpt:
The Affiche Rouge (Red Poster) is a notorious propaganda poster, distributed by Vichy France and German authorities in the spring of 1944 in occupied Paris, to discredit 23 immigrant French Resistance fighters, members of the Manouchian Group. The term Affiche Rouge also refers more broadly to the circumstances surrounding the poster's creation and distribution, the capture, trial and execution of these members of the Manouchian Group.(Submitted on November 20, 2024.)
…After having been tortured and interrogated for three months, the 23 were tried by a German military court. To discredit the Resistance, the authorities invited French celebrities (from the world of the cinema and other arts) to attend the trial and encourage the media to give it the widest coverage possible. All but one of the Manouchian Group's members were executed before a firing squad in Fort Mont-Valérien on 21 February 1944. Olga Bancic, who had served the groupas a messenger, was taken to Stuttgart, where she was beheaded with an axe on 10 May 1944.Photographed by Vichy Administration (via Wikimedia Commons), February 13, 19443. l’Affiche Rouge / The “Red Poster”Des libérateurs? La libération par l'armée du crime!
"Liberators? Liberation by the army of crime!"
Although the poster attempted to depict the group as "terrorists", the campaign seems to have had the effect of highlighting the feats of people whom the general public considered to be freedom fighters. Legend has it that supporters scribbled the words MORTS POUR LA FRANCE across the posters ("They died for France" - the phrase used on official monuments to soldiers of France who died in combat) and put flowers beneath some of the posters. - Wikipedia
In the spring of 1944, the Vichy authorities launched a propaganda campaign, designed to discredit the Manouchian Group and defuse public anger over their execution. They created a poster, which became known as Affiche Rouge, due to its red background. It featured ten men of the group, with nationality, surnames, photos and descriptions of their crimes; the Germans distributed an estimated 15,000 copies of the poster.
Credits. This page was last revised on November 20, 2024. It was originally submitted on November 20, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 210 times since then and 49 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on November 20, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
