Bagadoù stourm

Bagadoù Stourm , Breton nationalist organization

Bagadoù Stourm

Before war

The Breton national Parti comprises, in the same manner as prewar socialist youths, of catholic or communist youths, a training of young militants in uniform: the bagadoù stourm . Contrary to what is often advanced wrongly, the bagadoù stourm are in charge of the service of order pre-war period of the rooms of the meetings of the party and do not have weapons.

1941

During the year 1941, the direction of the party charges Célestin Lainé and its officers with the Lu Brezhon to ensure the reserve training of the " groups of combat" GNP, the Bagadoù Stourm, placed under the direction of Yann Narrow part. During the year 1941, the executives of the Special service proceeded once a month, saturdays and Sunday, in the majority of the centers of Brittany to the drive of the young nationalist recruits: theoretical courses - teaching of the Morse, study of ballistics - knowledge of poison gases, practical course: repetition of operations. The influence exerted by the executives of the organization of Woolly on manpower of Bagadoù Stourm was not to be long in creating a faintness close to subversion. Chief of groups of combat, Yann Goulet reacts vigorously to maintain the unit of the Party, by pointing out qu'" to inform and direct is two things différentes" , and that in a military academy, it is not acceptable qu" a fencing master assumes a capacity of command ". Followed by Raymond Delaporte, Goulet remained the only recognized authority. As from this moment, the unconditional ones of the Special service, and the volunteers of Bagadoù were observed with an obvious mistrust (prelude to the scission which was to lead two years later to the formation of the Bezen Perrot). Bagadoù Stourm remain the militia of the Breton National Parti, directed by Yann Goulet. Yann Goulet will insist for its defense, as for Raymond Delaporte of the will to organize an independent Breton army, deprived of any allegiance and any support with respect to the German troops (contrary to Célestin Lainé).

Songs of walk

The songs of walk of this militia are: " Of the Flanders in Alsace, In three hundred and thousand tombs, the flower of our race, To lie broken in scraps. As long as to risk our life Ahead the boys, Deliver our Fatherland. Ahead the Breton ones! ". Or, taken again on Breton words, the Flemish anthem of the " Oppressed People " , or on the " song of the Swan " (" Eun alarc' H "), extracted the Barzaz Breiz of Hersart of Villemarqué. A certain number of its steps will be published in a collection entitled " War Raok" (Ahead) and illustrated by Xavier Haas.

The Second world war

The Strolladoù Stourm is another name used for the bagadoù stourm, of the " groups of combat of the GNP directed by Yann Narrow part and of Alan Louarn.

A short incident included some of its members with the population of Landivisiau. Kristian Hamon reports that the August 7th 1943. “ At the time of its interrogation, Alan Louarn admits having directed the group of young militiamans, but denies to have dark on crowd. ”. They act with “ iron bars ”, and “ revolver ”, with the “ not of the goose ”; “ they stopped two Parisian painters and led them to their camp under the threat of a dagger ”. To finish “the named Jean Narrow part, separatist stopped day before yesterday was given in freedom yesterday evening on order of the German police force of Brest ”. Polig Monjarret was, under the Occupation an organizer of these groups of combat of the GNP.

It is question, in the book of Henri Fréville, operations of Bagadoù Stourm (groups of engagements), the August 7th 1943, which finish with Scrignac. The Abbé Perrot had given hospitality to the young people of the Bagadoù Stourm which operated in the Finistere and whose two chiefs, Yann Goulet and Haridon, had been stopped by the French police force and had been slackened by the Germans.

In August, six members of the Groupe Freedom take part in the camp of summer of Bagadoù Stourm to Saint-Herbot, in the Monts of Arrée. As opposed to what reports Kristian Hamon, it is reported that Yann Goulet, the person in charge of the training course is stopped by the Germans and imprisoned until October to have faced the police force of Vichy and to have intercepted a police officer who espionnait the camp It is advanced that the supposed arrest of Yann Goulet by the Germans and his consecutive detention, until October 1943, with an hunger strike, would have made rock part of the BS resident of Saint-Nazaire towards active Resistance. They would thus thus have broken with the GNP collaborationnist.

During this time of at the beginning of August, one finds a reference precise only to the arrestatation of Yann Goulet by the police force of Vichy, and that with the consecutive release of Yann Goulet by the Nazis, reported by Kristian Hamon.

The GNP being collaborationnist, his " groups of combat" are collaborationnists. Yann Goulet is condemned to died to the Release. The article on Alan Louarn raises that he is member of a group of killers of the Militia of Darnand.

The group of Saint-Nazaire takes part in the Résistance

See also: Freedom Group of Saint-Nazaire

Some members of Bagadoù Stourm founders of the Breton Forces of the Interior will be off-set with Buchenwald (Jean Chauvel of Guenrouet, Paul Magueur of Saint-Nazaire,…)

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