{"id":5654,"date":"2015-05-29T18:57:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T00:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2015-05-29T18:57:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T00:57:01","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-24-30-may-1943-jean-moulin-calls-a-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5654","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 24–30 May 1943: Jean Moulin calls a meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jean Moulin\/Cross of Lorraine background [Attr: I, Gmandicourt, GNU Free Documentation License, Creative Commons]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 27 May 1943, French Resistance leader Jean Moulin called a meeting on rue du Four in Paris. Representatives of eight different resistance groups were in attendance.<\/p>\n

Jean Moulin was the personal envoy of Charles de Gaulle, with orders to unify the various resistance movements under the umbrella of the Conseil national de la R\u00e9sistance<\/em> (CNR). The gathering of 27 May was the first meeting of the CNR and\u00a0Moulin’s efforts produced major changes in the organization of resistance to the Nazis.<\/p>\n

Within the month, Jean Moulin was arrested in Lyon where he was brutally tortured by Gestapo head, Klaus Barbie (\u2018The Butcher of Lyon\u2019<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Moulin was killed—some say beaten to death—en route to Germany.<\/p>\n

His tomb can be seen at the Pantheon, in Paris, among other tombs of France’s honoured dead.<\/p>\n

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