page_title: Géo Gras Group
hierarchical_section_title: Géo Gras Group
caption_attribution_description: English: Founding members of the Geo Gras Group during the Croix de Guerre award ceremony in Algiers, from right to left&#160;: Charles Bouchara, Paul Sebaoun, Emile Atlan
context_page_description: The Géo Gras Group was a French resistance movement that played a decisive role during Operation Torch, the British-American invasion of French North Africa during WWII.
  Formed October 1940 in Algiers, the group recruited Jews and French Army officers opposed to the Vichy regime.
  They provided a third of the resistance fighters during the capture of Algiers. Its role was to neutralize the strategic civilian and military points of the city, and prevent the Vichy forces from defeating the Allied forces.
context_section_description: The Géo Gras Group was a French resistance movement that played a decisive role during Operation Torch, the British-American invasion of French North Africa during WWII.
  
  Formed October 1940 in Algiers, the group recruited Jews and French Army officers opposed to the Vichy regime. 
   They provided a third of the resistance fighters during the capture of Algiers. Its role was to neutralize the strategic civilian and military points of the city, and prevent the Vichy forces from defeating the Allied forces.
caption: Croix de Guerre award ceremony in Algiers, from right to left : Charles Bouchara, Paul Sebaoun, Emile Atlan
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