André DILIGENT tells us how, just a few days after the Liberation, the press of the Resistance began to appear in the open. By ordinances of the Constitutive Assembly of Algiers and the Provisional Government, the old titles were forbidden because they had served as a vehicle for German propaganda. To allow the publication of new titles despite material difficulties, André DILIGENT, by proxy of the commissioner of the Republic of the time, signed the creation of authorization to publish for certain newspaper titles
On November 11, 1942, the Germans invaded the free zone. Among the many consequences of this act, the daily Progress went down, on November 12, 42. A supplement to the newspaper "Progrès 39-45" is devoted to this period. The journalist Nathalie Garrido, editor of this supplement, explains how she worked in the archives and collected many testimonies, to trace this historic event of the Second World War. She goes back to the existence of censorship under the Vichy government and the scuttling of the newspaper, as the founding act of the new Progress.
The newspaper Le Progrès scuttled itself on November 12, 1942, following the crossing by German troops of the demarcation line. Emile Brémond, editor of the newspaper we see here in the photo, decided to suspend publication. He did not reappear until two years later, on Friday, September 8, 1944.
Pierre Mérindol, a journalist and judicial columnist for the newspaper Le Progrès de Lyon, tells how Emile and Hélène Brémond, the newspaper’s director and owner, announced to their collaborators that it had been destroyed on 12 November 1942. They could not conceive, nor accept, to propagate the false information imposed by the Vichy regime.