War Memorial FFI Saint-Germain-Lembron

This memorial commemorates the two members Joseph Serre and Raymond Coudert of the Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, the French Forces of the Interior. This organization was a kind of army which consisted of former resistance fighters. On August 7, 1944, on this location in the woods near Massiac, two members of the F.F.I. were executed by the Germans. At the site of the killings, this monument is erected. On the monument are the names of the victims. On August 24, 1944 a car with four men aboard drove through a German convoy. The German soldiers riddled the car with machine guns, Marcel Pierson, Leon Cuenand and Alexandre Aumar were killed in the hail of bullets. The 17-year-old Joseph Bouchon managed to escape from the car but was the next day during his captivity beaten to death with the butt of a rifle by German soldiers.

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