When the war broke up in 1939, the town of Strasbourg was declared military zone by the French authorities and was immediately evacuated, a measure which did not apply to the rest of Alsace-Lorraine.
As a consequence, the entire Strasbourg University, including the Faculty of Protestant Theology, its teachers and students, were folded up in Clermont-Ferrand, a town in the center of France, which was not a full university town but hosted only an Art Faculty, a Science Faculty, a Law School and a Medical School.
CHAPTER ONE : The first years of the resistance (1940,1941,1942)
CHAPTER TWO : Actions of Gestapo against the University - 2 phases - talks Himler Ribbentrop - raids and arrests
CHAPTER THREE : The Mathieu case : the Sonderkommando - Mathie's trial and execution
EPILOGUE
IN MEMORIAM of the 139 University members who died
THE AUTHOR
OTHER SITES : A selection of Internet sites related to the Resistance
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