Georges Mandel, ou, La passion de la République

Documents the life of Mandel, born Louis Rothschild (1885-1944). A journalist with "L'Aurore", he met Georges Clemenceau and collaborated with him on the journal "L'Homme libre" and later as a member of his cabinet. A target of antisemitic derision throughout his political life, he became a symbol of opposition to Nazism in France. Opposition to the armistice in 1940 and plans to continue the battle against Vichy from the colonies ultimately led to his arrest by the Vichy government in 1940 and transfer to various prisons in France. In 1942 he was handed over to the Germans and placed in Oranienburg and then in Buchenwald. Finally, in July 1944 he was sent back to France where he was placed in the custody of the French militia, who assassinated him at Fontainebleau on the eve of the liberation of Paris.