Citizendia
Your Ad Here

The Confrérie de Notre Dame (CND), later called the CND-Castille, was a French resistance group founded by Colonel Rémy. The French Resistance is the collective name used for the French Resistance movements which fought against the Nazi German Gilbert Renault (August 6 1904 in Vannes, France - July 29 1984 in Guingamp, France) was known during the resistance under the name

History

Founded before the end of 1940, the Notre-Dame Brotherhood was an information agency, and part of the Free French Forces. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres FFL) were French fighters in World War II who decided to continue fighting against Axis forces It was one of the first agencies of the Central Office of Information and Action (BCRA). Devastated on several occasions, always reappearing, it took the name of NDT-Castille after the terrible blow carried against it by the Germans in November 1943. The Notre-Dame Brotherhood never ceased sending mail to London, by air and maritime routes as well as by transmitters parachuted in occupied France. Its information was often crucial for the enactment of allied military operations, in particular the raid of Bruneval in February 1942. Saint-Jouin-Bruneval is a commune in the Seine-Maritime département of the Haute-Normandie region of northern France

Sources


© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic