French Resistance provokes Reprisals

22nd October 1841: German execution of 'hostages' following assassination of German officer is condemned by the United States

The reward notice distributed by the Nazis in occupied France threatened to kill a further 50 ‘hostages’.

The underground Communist Party sent Gilbert Brustlein, one of three members of the French Resistance, from Paris to Nantes. They had orders to blow up the railway and to shoot the highest-ranking German officer they could find. On 20th October 1941,…