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Matt Doeden
Lerner Publications
Minneapolis
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Content consultant: Eric Juhnke, Professor of History, Briar Cliff University
Copyright 2018 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Doeden, Matt, author.
Title: World War II resistance fighters / by Matt Doeden.
Description: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, [2018] | Series: Heroes of World
War II | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Audience: Grades
46. | Audience: Ages 812.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017010790 (print) | LCCN 2017011941 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781512498196 (eb pdf) | ISBN 9781512486414 (lb : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Anti-Nazi movementHistory20th centuryJuvenile
literature. | Anti-Nazi movementEuropeBiographyJuvenile
literature. | Holocaust, Jewish (19391945)Juvenile literature. | Germany
History19331945Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC DD256.3 (ebook) | LCC DD256.3 .D58 2018 (print) | DDC
940.53/1dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017010790
Manufactured in the United States of America
1-43465-33205-6/14/2017
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
TEENAGE TERROR
Eighteen-year-old Simone Segouin stayed
low. It was July 1944, and she was hiding in a ditch
with two fellow French fighters. World
War II (19391945) raged across Europe, and
Germany had taken over her home country of France.
Nazi German soldiers take over
Paris, France, on June 14, 1940.
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The left many feeling helpless. Not
Segouin. She was fighting back.
Under the false name Nicole Minet, she had joined
the Free-Shooters and Partisans ( Francs-Tireurs et
Partisans in French, or FTP). The FTP was a group
of resistance fighters. Their goal was to harm the
occupying Germans and to drive them from France.
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Segouins missions with the FTP had started out
small. She stole a bike from a German officer. She used
it to deliver messages to other resistance fighters and
spy on German troops. Over time, she proved her value
to the FTP. She trained in . She carried out
missions. Her aim was to damage German
military posts and supply lines.
On that July morning, Segouin clutched her weapon
as two German bicycles approached. Suddenly, she and
her fellow fighters rose. She had never killed anyone
in her life. But she didnt hesitate. Segouin opened
fire. She wished that she didnt have to kill the enemy
soldiers. But she also was willing to do whatever it took
to defeat the enemy that had taken over her country.
Three members of the FTP, including
eighteen-year-old Simone Segouin ( center ),
prepare to fight German troops in Paris in 1944.