# Talk:Bezen Perrot

Bezen Perrot never rounded up Jews. It was created to fight the French Resistance which had already attacked and killed members of the Breton political and cultural movement. It ended in a sort of civil war with atrocities committed on both sides. Its activities started only in 1944 so even if rounding up Jews was not at all the aim of its creation it couldn't have done so because at that date the few Jews who had lived in Brittany had already been arrested by French Police Nationale, Gendarmerie Nationale and railways company. Please refrain from degrading Wikipedia by adding affirmations that are proven to be historically false.

""Rounding up of Jews was evidently part of Bezen Perrot's duties with the SD. Hamon (2001:200) quotes the following from a former Bezen Perrot activist Jégou: (...) En janvier 1944 j'ai été comandé pour aller chercher une vieille dame israélite a Rennes avec Konval et P.C., emmenée au SD (...) Once arrested Jews were then handed over to the SD for deportation to the concetration camps." (George Broderick, "The Breton Movement and the German Occupation, 1940-44", pp. 64-5). Unless you can provide a source to support your claim, it sounds, charitably, like pure WP:OR. —Brigade Piron (talk) 07:12, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Bezen Perrot took arms given to them by the German military occupation forces against the French Resistance which fought with arms parachuted by British SOE which also parachuted officers of different nationalities to give orders. There is no documentation of mass murders of civilians. Wikipedia should not be degraded by adding affirmations that are proven to be historically false.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.166.108.101 (talk) 14:20, 10 October 2023 (UTC) 
German Bandenbekämpfung branded civilian populations as "bandits" or "members of gangs" in order to justify their executions. Bezen Perrot took part in multiple mass murders of "alleged" resistance fighters.--Catlemur (talk) 06:42, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Sorry Catlemur, please give us facts. Mass murders of innocent civilian populations are documented in several places in Brittany mainly committed by the Wehrmacht returning to Brest when the American army was invading the Breton peninsula. At that time Bezen Perrot had already left for Angers and could not be involved in these mass murders. Bezen Perrot fought against armed French Resistance fighters. Atrocities were committed on both sides. But French Resistance fighters killed, raped and ploundered number of unarmed civilians often shopkeepers, accusing them of collaboration. The Breton catholic priest Abbé Pierre-Marie Lec'hvien was tortured and killed by a crowd of communist French resistance fighters in 1944 when the American army was already in Brittany but not yet capable to control all the villages. He had done nothing wrong but had asked to keep calm when the German army was leaving. Killings, rape and plounder of civilians often shopkeepers still occured months after the German army had left. Scientific publications exist. Here just one example you may read online in French: https://books.openedition.org/pur/8879?lang=en 37.166.89.98 (talk) 08:20, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
Sorry Catlemur one must not think that the German occupation was the same in France and in Russia. In occupied Eastern Europe German Bandenbekämpfung branded civilian populations as "bandits" or "members of gangs" in order to justify their executions, in France the occupying forces took hostages, Jews, Communists or others and shot these hostages when attacks on German officers or other members of the army were perpetrated. The whole occupation in itself was of course a terror regime. 37.166.89.98 (talk) 09:01, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
Please read WP:NOT FORUM, IP. Unless you can produce some source to back up your rather dubious claims about what the Bezen Perrot did and did not do, there is no point in this discussion. The actions of the resistance in Brittany are not the subject at issue here. —Brigade Piron (talk) 07:16, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

No trace of Bezen Perrot in Ar Faoued on 7 May 1944.
Kadbzh (talk) 03:44, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
cf. "Les Maquisards chez nous en 1944 : Gourin, Le Faouët, Guéméné"
de René Le Guénic (Auteur)-- J'ai toujours été passionné par l'histoire, celle de la Résistance m'a particulièrement intéressé. C'est l'année 1944, la plus riche en événements qui a essentiellement retenu mon attention. En qualité d'auteur-compositeur, membre de la SACEM, j'avais écrit une lémopée pour le 40e anniversaire de Landordu, une fosse ou 16 patriotes furent fusillés par les allemands. Le maire de Berné, Roland Duclos, m'a encouragé à relater l'histoire de la Résistance dans notre secteur. Ce livre est une succession de récits retraçant, à partir de témoignages, documents et photos de l'époque, les hauts faits, les drames, les accidents qui émaillèrent la vie des résistants. -- L'auteur  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kadbzh (talk • contribs) 12:59, 13 October 2022 (UTC) 

Catlemur has re-instated the section of the article dealing with the pre-modern history of Brittany which I removed, and I think this is worth discussing as these sections are quite long (perhaps 1/10 of the entire article) and long-standing. Catlemur raised the issue on my talk page claiming that I was "making sweeping edits that directly contradict the article's GA review suggestions".
My rationale for removing them is simply that they do not fit into an article of this scope. Indeed, this is apparent from the fact that the bits of the article about the Bezen Perrot are sourced from entirely different texts from this background material - and vice versa. My arguments are as follows:

The information falls way outside the scope of what an ordinary reader would expect to find in an article addressing a minor collaborationist unit. This article deals with events in 1943-44, stretching back a few decades alongside the history of Breton nationalism. Do Medieval marriages and court appointments more than a thousand years earlier really fit into this?
It creates a potential WP:CFORK of Breton nationalism or History of Brittany. These are articles in which this content might be much more justifiably be incorporated.
It creates a potential issue of WP:UNDUE by placing too much emphasis on Breton nationalist claims to historical distinctiveness while not addressing the historical connections with France also involved. Again, this article is obviously not the place to go into these issues and can be easily avoided.
This is not to depreciate the work put into the article by Catlemur on an article which is otherwise very good. I am also aware that I am a latecomer to the subject. However, there is clearly room for improvement here as in any other article, and this seems an obvious issue. Might a solution be to move this section (rather than delete it outright) to another article? —Brigade Piron (talk) 13:06, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

@Brigade Piron: I suppose I am neutral on this after reading the above arguments. The deep background can always be reinstated if a consensus is formed that its necessary.--Catlemur (talk) 14:04, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
@Catlemur:, are you happy t o have it moved to Breton nationalism instead? —Brigade Piron (talk) 16:16, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
@Brigade Piron: Go ahead.--Catlemur (talk) 16:41, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Great. I have added it to Breton nationalism#Background where there was a notable gap. —Brigade Piron (talk) 08:43, 13 April 2020 (UTC)