Terrorists In Retirement

A short, deeply troubling investigation of the events leading up to the arrest and subsequent execution of some 200 immigrant Resistance fighters in Occupied Paris. The incident centered on the 23-members of the Manouchian Group, executed in 1944 and immortalized on "L'Affiche Rouge," the ubiquitous red poster that proclaimed a Nazi victory over "terrorists." Missak Manouchian was the Paris head of the F.T.P.-M.O.I., an important arm of the Resistance organized under the aegis of the French Communist Party. Its member were young and predominantly Jewish; many were illegal immigrants. Of all the Resistance cells, they had the least to lose: ...