[ Press WW2 39-45] " L'Humanities " #287/14 July 1945 States General Concorde

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[WW2 PRESS - 39/45]
"Humanity"
Daily
Central organ of the French Communist Party
42nd year (new series) - N ° 287
Saturday July 14, 1945
"People of Paris at 2 p.m., with the Estates General of Concorde at the Bastille ..."
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First Printing
Original Edition
In-Folio, (about 43x60cm), 2pp. (1 sheet printed on both sides)
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Newspaper yellowed as always
copy folded in 4, various small tears, on folds and edges,
small holes, various folds, etc ...
Fair condition, various small tears
cf. visuals ...
Rare document
Sold as described, as found
"Humanity"
L'Humanité is a French newspaper - socialist until the end of 1920, then communist - founded in 1904 by the socialist leader
Jean Jaurès
. Central organ of the French Communist Party from 1920 to 1994, it remains very close after opening its pages to other components of the left.
Humanity in hiding (1939-1944)
On August 27, 1939 the Daladier government banned the publication of L'Humanité after its approval of the German-Soviet Pact. As of October 1939, the newspaper appeared clandestinely.
More than 300 issues came out until 1944, sometimes mimeographed sheets, sometimes printed pages.
In the summer of 1940, the newspaper having been banned by the Daladier government, Communist leaders began negotiations aimed at the official reappearance of the newspaper with the German services, mainly Lieutenant Weber of the PropagandaStaffel. A communist activist, Denise Ginollin, is in charge of the first negotiations.
Jacques Duclos does not fail to inform the Communist International of these steps and specifies that they were carried out "without engaging the leaders of the Party".
Maurice Thorez, from Moscow, condemns this negotiation.
On June 26, 1940, a second negotiation to publish the newspaper took place between PCF executives, in particular Maurice Tréand, Jean Catelas and Otto Abetz who received them at the German embassy. These first ones commit themselves in a letter the same day on a certain number of promises. Among these, "L'Humanité, published by us, would set itself the task of denouncing the actions of agents of British imperialism who want to drag the French colonies into war and to call the colonial peoples to fight for their independence. against their imperialist oppressors ”. Despite his commitments, the Communist leaders did not receive official publication permits and the newspaper continued to be published clandestinely, sparing the Occupation forces.
Thus, one can read in L'Humanité of July 4, 1940:
“It is particularly comforting in these times of misfortune to see many Parisian workers talking to German soldiers, either in the street or in the corner bistro. Well done comrades, continue even if it does not please some bourgeois as stupid as evil! The brotherhood of peoples will not always be a hope, it will become a living reality ”(L'Humanité, July 4, 1940).
The Vichy authorities confirm the publication ban and the German occupation forces the newspaper to go underground until the Liberation of 1944 (despite the rejected request for re-publication made in June 1940 to the German occupation authorities, initiative repudiated by many activists then by the Communist International, which had initially let it do).
L'Humanité appeared secretly for five years (383 numbers distributed in 200,000 copies) and refrained from attacking the Germans until August 1940 (date of the end of negotiations). Many journalists from its editorial staff and manufacturing personnel perished in the fight against the Nazi occupier, such as Gabriel Péri (head of his international column, shot on December 15, 1941 at Mont-Valérien), Lucien Sampaix.
The newspaper
reappears freely on August 21, 1944 during the Liberation of Paris
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We can read in L'Humanité clandestine of May 20, 1941, the PCF's appeal concerning the creation of the National Front for the Struggle for the Liberation and Independence of France: "The PCF is addressed to all those who think French and want to act French ... In this National Front for Independence there is room for all French people except capitulants and traitors in the service of the invader, so that France is France and does not become a Nazi colony, national unity must be achieved ... against invaders and traitors, against the Vichy government which obeys the orders of the German occupiers ”.
As the Occupation progresses, Humanity becomes harder and harder with the Germans
and with the Vichy regime.
After 1944, L'Humanité revived the situation between the two world wars.
Central organ of the PCF, its editorial line follows the party line and mixes information and mobilization campaign.
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[WW2 PRESS - 39/45] "Humanity"  Daily  Central organ of the French Communist Party  42nd year (new series) - N ° 287 Saturday July 14, 1945 -    First Printing Original Edition   In-Folio, (about 43x60cm), 2pp. (1 sheet printed on both sides) - Newspaper yellowed as always copy folded in 4, various small tears, on folds and edges,  small holes, various folds, etc ... Fair condition, various small tears cf. visuals ...   Rare document Sold as described, as found  "Humanity" Humanity in hiding (1939-1944) Maurice Thorez, from Moscow, condemns this negotiation. Thus, one can read in L'Humanité of July 4, 1940: The newspaper reappears freely on August 21, 1944 during the Liberation of Paris. and with the Vichy regime. After 1944, L'Humanité revived the situation between the two world wars.  -
[WW2 PRESS - 39/45] "Humanity"  Daily  Central organ of the French Communist Party  42nd year (new series) - N ° 287 Saturday July 14, 1945 -    First Printing Original Edition   In-Folio, (about 43x60cm), 2pp. (1 sheet printed on both sides) - Newspaper yellowed as always copy folded in 4, various small tears, on folds and edges,  small holes, various folds, etc ... Fair condition, various small tears cf. visuals ...   Rare document Sold as described, as found  "Humanity" Humanity in hiding (1939-1944) Maurice Thorez, from Moscow, condemns this negotiation. Thus, one can read in L'Humanité of July 4, 1940: The newspaper reappears freely on August 21, 1944 during the Liberation of Paris. and with the Vichy regime. After 1944, L'Humanité revived the situation between the two world wars.  -
[WW2 PRESS - 39/45] "Humanity"  Daily  Central organ of the French Communist Party  42nd year (new series) - N ° 287 Saturday July 14, 1945 -    First Printing Original Edition   In-Folio, (about 43x60cm), 2pp. (1 sheet printed on both sides) - Newspaper yellowed as always copy folded in 4, various small tears, on folds and edges,  small holes, various folds, etc ... Fair condition, various small tears cf. visuals ...   Rare document Sold as described, as found  "Humanity" Humanity in hiding (1939-1944) Maurice Thorez, from Moscow, condemns this negotiation. Thus, one can read in L'Humanité of July 4, 1940: The newspaper reappears freely on August 21, 1944 during the Liberation of Paris. and with the Vichy regime. After 1944, L'Humanité revived the situation between the two world wars.  -
[WW2 PRESS - 39/45] "Humanity"  Daily  Central organ of the French Communist Party  42nd year (new series) - N ° 287 Saturday July 14, 1945 -    First Printing Original Edition   In-Folio, (about 43x60cm), 2pp. (1 sheet printed on both sides) - Newspaper yellowed as always copy folded in 4, various small tears, on folds and edges,  small holes, various folds, etc ... Fair condition, various small tears cf. visuals ...   Rare document Sold as described, as found  "Humanity" Humanity in hiding (1939-1944) Maurice Thorez, from Moscow, condemns this negotiation. Thus, one can read in L'Humanité of July 4, 1940: The newspaper reappears freely on August 21, 1944 during the Liberation of Paris. and with the Vichy regime. After 1944, L'Humanité revived the situation between the two world wars.  -
[WW2 PRESS - 39/45] "Humanity"  Daily  Central organ of the French Communist Party  42nd year (new series) - N ° 287 Saturday July 14, 1945 -    First Printing Original Edition   In-Folio, (about 43x60cm), 2pp. (1 sheet printed on both sides) - Newspaper yellowed as always copy folded in 4, various small tears, on folds and edges,  small holes, various folds, etc ... Fair condition, various small tears cf. visuals ...   Rare document Sold as described, as found  "Humanity" Humanity in hiding (1939-1944) Maurice Thorez, from Moscow, condemns this negotiation. Thus, one can read in L'Humanité of July 4, 1940: The newspaper reappears freely on August 21, 1944 during the Liberation of Paris. and with the Vichy regime. After 1944, L'Humanité revived the situation between the two world wars.  -
[WW2 PRESS - 39/45] "Humanity"  Daily  Central organ of the French Communist Party  42nd year (new series) - N ° 287 Saturday July 14, 1945 -    First Printing Original Edition   In-Folio, (about 43x60cm), 2pp. (1 sheet printed on both sides) - Newspaper yellowed as always copy folded in 4, various small tears, on folds and edges,  small holes, various folds, etc ... Fair condition, various small tears cf. visuals ...   Rare document Sold as described, as found  "Humanity" Humanity in hiding (1939-1944) Maurice Thorez, from Moscow, condemns this negotiation. Thus, one can read in L'Humanité of July 4, 1940: The newspaper reappears freely on August 21, 1944 during the Liberation of Paris. and with the Vichy regime. After 1944, L'Humanité revived the situation between the two world wars.  -
[WW2 PRESS - 39/45] "Humanity"  Daily  Central organ of the French Communist Party  42nd year (new series) - N ° 287 Saturday July 14, 1945 -    First Printing Original Edition   In-Folio, (about 43x60cm), 2pp. (1 sheet printed on both sides) - Newspaper yellowed as always copy folded in 4, various small tears, on folds and edges,  small holes, various folds, etc ... Fair condition, various small tears cf. visuals ...   Rare document Sold as described, as found  "Humanity" Humanity in hiding (1939-1944) Maurice Thorez, from Moscow, condemns this negotiation. Thus, one can read in L'Humanité of July 4, 1940: The newspaper reappears freely on August 21, 1944 during the Liberation of Paris. and with the Vichy regime. After 1944, L'Humanité revived the situation between the two world wars.  -
[WW2 PRESS - 39/45] "Humanity"  Daily  Central organ of the French Communist Party  42nd year (new series) - N ° 287 Saturday July 14, 1945 -    First Printing Original Edition   In-Folio, (about 43x60cm), 2pp. (1 sheet printed on both sides) - Newspaper yellowed as always copy folded in 4, various small tears, on folds and edges,  small holes, various folds, etc ... Fair condition, various small tears cf. visuals ...   Rare document Sold as described, as found  "Humanity" Humanity in hiding (1939-1944) Maurice Thorez, from Moscow, condemns this negotiation. Thus, one can read in L'Humanité of July 4, 1940: The newspaper reappears freely on August 21, 1944 during the Liberation of Paris. and with the Vichy regime. After 1944, L'Humanité revived the situation between the two world wars.  -