The French Resistance

To learn about the French resistance, we went to a French resistance museum called “Musée de la Liberté” about Resistance fighters from when the nazis took over France during WWII. The entrance of the museum was a large arc-like structure without doors. the first thing we saw as we entered the exhibit where suites of the French freedom fighters. The first one I saw was one that was blue. Next to it was a case that had a dozen medals in it. Turns out that those medallions where made by Charles de Gaulle who was a veteran from WWI. He left France before the war started and was in Britain when Germany started to invade. He came back to France to fight the Nazis when they had conquered most of France to be a freedom fighter. To convince people to join the rebellion, he would tell people that they would be honored and give them medals. They also made propaganda to help convince people to join them.

Later on in the we saw a short slid show like video about how the germans conquered France, chunk by chunk and how the Allies freed France from the Nazi. Next the the large screen where more things that belonged mostly to the rebels but some that belonged the nazi officers. In the museum they also had some cold war spy equipment like a tiny camera and a transmitter to send messages. Nearby they had some of the propaganda both sides made. the one I remember most was one of the victories of France or the Allies over the Nazis(I manly remember it because it had a tiny France coloured rooster).

We left the museum shortly after, my dad sidetracked us to go see a tiny tank that the french owned as we made our way back home.