How to Flee the Gestapo

We’ve been discussing the necessary qualities of a resistance leader, or, really, any resister who intended to survive the war. You needed to be a good judge of character, good […]

We’ve been talking about the essential qualities of a resistance leader. Let’s look at another one today: decisiveness. A gentleman who worked for Dutch-Paris as a young man once told […]

Here’s another essential quality for Here’s another essential quality for a resistance leader: the ability to get along with all sorts of people. This was especially important for leaders of […]

Here’s another story of how a leader of Dutch-Paris recruited someone the line needed for their skills or resources based on his own judgment of the person’s character rather than […]

We’ve been talking about how Dutch-Paris recruited new members. No matter who a resister approached, the invitation to join the network was fraught with peril. There was the possibility that […]

We’ve been talking about how resisters often relied on the people they already knew from work or the neighborhood or their families or school to expand their networks. That makes […]

In another example of employment related connections among resisters, I’ve noticed that a number of people in Dutch-Paris worked for the same Dutch insurance company, De Utrecht. If we were […]

Here’s another example of  social connections among members of Dutch-Paris that were established before the war. Sometimes people recruited others for their resistance network from among the people they worked […]

We’ve been discussing the practical consequences for resistance networks like Dutch-Paris of the fact that they could not openly recruit or advertise for the best candidates without being arrested and […]

We’ve been talking about how resistance lines, especially escape lines, were vulnerable because they had to trust strangers and were always in need of more help and more resources. Resisters […]