French resistance leaders captured

21st June 1943: Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", surprises the Resistance leader Jean Moulin along with others

Jean Moulin (1899-1943), pictured in 1937. A national hero in France, he was the first President of the National Council of the Resistance. The French education curriculum commemorates Moulin as a symbol of the French resistance and a model of civic virtue, moral rectitude and patriotism.

The world of undercover life in France during the Nazi occupation …