Résistance - Erinnerungen an den Widerstand 1940–1945 - Buch

Diary from the resistance 1940-1945

Agnès Humbert spent her youth in Paris, studying painting, art history and ethnology. With her friends, ethnologists at the Musée de l'Homme, she was one of the founders of the first resistance network in occupied France in 1940. In their underground newspaper ‘Résistance’, the group called for resistance against the Nazis and the Vichy regime. They were betrayed in 1941 and their leading members were arrested, tortured and executed. Agnès Humbert escaped this fate as a woman and was instead deported to Germany, where she performed forced labour in Krefeld under the most adverse conditions until the liberation.

Her war diary, which has been translated into twelve languages, is now available in German for the first time. In it, Humbert recounts the beginnings of the Resistance, her experiences in the German factories and the weeks after liberation by the Allies, where she hunted down the Nazis as a liaison officer and interpreter.

Translated from the French by Ingrid Schupetta and Justin Winkler.