The only photo French resistance fighters facing the firing squad on the site where the highest numbers were killed in WW2 goes on public display for the first time, after ex-SS officer handed them in. He took them secretly from bushes as Mont Valerien outside Paris, where more than 1,000 resistance members were shot by firing squad. So ashamed was he that he kept the negatives in his Minolta, which he never used again. On a pilgrimage to Rome, he told a fellow German about them and handed him his old camera they were inside and still in good condition. Frances most famous Nazi hunter identified the group he photographed as from the from the famous Manouchian network.
The photos are part of a new exhibition at Mont Valerien
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