Peter Gingold

Peter Gingold is resistant German.

Sent in exile in 1933 to Paris, after several months of imprisonment by the authorities Nazis, it takes part in the foundation of the free German Jeunesse (FDJ) with others exiled German in France. Then, during the occupation Nazi, it integrates Resistance and joined the free Comité Germany for West (CALPO) which is in particular charged to recruit deserters of the Wehrmacht to obtain information for the resistance movements

Leaving clandestinity in June 1944, Peter Gingold takes part with a hundred resistant German to the release of Paris in the rows of the FFI, then with the release of Metz in the regiment of the Colonel Fabien. At the end of the war, it continues its political activities and becomes one of the spokesperson of the Union of persecuted by the Nazi regime and antifascists (VVN), traversing the Germany to testify to the resistance of the women and the German men who had not accepted the Nazi regime.

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