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The Affiche Rouge (Red Poster) is a notorious propaganda poster, distributed by Vichy France and German authorities in the spring of 1944 in occupied Paris, to discredit 23 immigrant French Resistance fighters, members of the Manouchian Group. The term Affiche Rouge also refers more broadly to the circumstances surrounding the poster's creation and distribution, the capture, trial and execution of these members of the Manouchian Group.

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The poster reads:

Des libérateurs?  La libération par l'armée du crime!
"Liberators?  Liberation by the army of crime!"

From left to right, and top to bottom, individual portraits are labeled:

  • GRZYWACZ: Juif polonais, 2 attentats ("Polish Jew, 2 terrorist attacks")
  • ELEK: Juif hongrois, 8 déraillements ("Hungarian Jew, 8 derailments")
  • WASJBROT: Juif polonais, 1 attentat, 3 déraillements ("Polish Jew, 1 terrorist attack, 3 derailments")
  • WITCHITZ: Juif polonais, 15 attentats ("Polish Jew, 15 terrorist attacks" — although Witchitz was born in France, being unclear if he was in fact Jewish or of Polish ancestry)
  • FINGERCWAJG: Juif polonais, 3 attentats, 5 déraillements ("Polish Jew, 3 terrorist attacks, 5 derailments")
  • BOCZOV: Juif hongrois, chef dérailleur, 20 attentats ("Hungarian Jew, chief of derailment operations, 20 terrorist attacks")
  • FONTANOT: Communiste italien, 12 attentats ("Italian Communist, 12 terrorist attacks". He is known also as "Fontano")
  • ALFONSO: Espagnol rouge, 7 attentats ("Red Spaniard, 7 terrorist attacks")
  • RAYMAN: Juif polonais, 13 attentats ("Polish Jew, 13 terrorist attacks")
  • MANOUCHIAN: Arménien, chef de bande, 56 attentats, 150 morts, 600 blessés ("Armenian, boss of the gang, 56 terrorist attacks, 150 dead, 600 wounded")

The bottom features photographs of:

  • the right shoulder and right chest of a corpse, riddled by bullet holes
  • a dead body lying on the ground
  • a derailed locomotive
  • a derailed train
  • a collection of small arms, grenades, and bomb components, displayed on a table
  • another derailed train

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