Interview with Raymond AUBRAC, former resistance fighter, on the announcement of the death of Paul TOUVIER, the former head of the militia in Lyon: "I have a personal dispute with Touvier who was hunting for resistance fighters and Jews and because of whom my parents were arrested and died in Auschwitz."
In front of the students of the colleges of the region of Tours Raymond AUBRAC answered a question from a middle school student who was wondering about the idea of resistance in 2010. How to resist in 2010? Raymond Aubrac replied that we must observe what is happening, try to find out what is happening in the society around us and resist injustice. Reactions of secondary school students impressed by his testimony and who can confront what we teach them in books and what the resisters experienced.
Raymond AUBRAC , former resistance fighter in Lyon in the Libération-Sud movement , tells of his first meeting with Jean MOULIN, alias Rex, who was charged by General De Gaulle to organize the unity of resistance movements in the southern zone.
The issues around the Resistance have changed. About 20 years ago he was questioned about the far west angle, the ambushes, the weapons, the beatings. Today, the recurring question is about motivations. Why did we get involved and why did we stay in the Resistance when things got dangerous? His testimony has changed. The resisters were volunteers, disobedient patriots and rebels. But, it was also optimists what he adds today. That is probably what young people are missing and they need to be told.
Raymond AUBRAC evokes the attacks of Klaus Barbie who continues to attack the resistance. He is the only survivor of the Caluire meeting where Jean MOULIN was arrested. For him, it is René HARDY, he is convinced, who betrayed and allowed the arrest of Jean Moulin.
Raymond AUBRAC remembers his first meeting with Jean Moulin who had shown him the mission order of General de Gaulle signed by the general. In the class of the Lycée Voltaire Raymond AUBRAC recognizes that students have the right to ask for explanations about the Resistance, which he does very willingly.
Raymond AUBRAC recounts the first steps of his wife Lucie in the Resistance; Lucie AUBRAC left with chalk to make inscriptions on the doors. A few days later he took part in this "game". They were very young then. The country was in total chaos.