Jean Moulin museum

The Jean Moulin museum at Bordeaux is dedicated to the resistance movement of the second world war. This museum is full of wartime memorabilia: helmets, uniforms, flags, bikes and motorcycles, photos and posters. Such posters exhort the French to do their duty and return to work. One poster warns them to turn in any English person or risk being shot!.

There are sad stories of bravery, like of the young man, Labat, who at 20 had joined the Resistance, escaped to England and was trained in codes and radio. He made a couple of successful forays back to France. IN 1942, he was parachuted in with radio transmitter equipment when he was caught and arrested. As the opened his bag containing the radio transmitter, he made his escape, shooting six Germans on the way. When he was trapped he took cyanide and died. How brave. How proud his father might have been. How sad his mother must have been.