page_title: Clandestine press of the French Resistance
section_title: L'Humanité
hierarchical_section_title: Clandestine press of the French Resistance / Top-circulation titles / L'Humanité
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Article du journal L'Humanité relatant les exécutions sommaires des résistants de Lamprat en Plounévézel le 8 juin 1944
context_page_description: The clandestine newspapers of the Resistance were newspapers created in France during Second World War by the movements of Resistance to the German occupation of France, to disseminate their ideas, which played an important role in the history of French journalism, particularly during the 1944 Freedom of the Press Ordinances.
context_section_description: On 27 August 1939, the Édouard Daladier government banned publication of L'Humanité after it approved  the German-Soviet Pact.
  L'Humanité then appeared clandestinely for five years (383 issues of 200,000 copies) and refrained from attacking the Germans until August 1940. Many of its journalists and manufacturing staff perished in the struggle against the Nazi occupier, such as Gabriel Péri (responsible for an international column, shot on 15 December 1941 at the Fort Mont-Valérien, and Lucien Sampaix. The newspaper reappeared openly once more on 21 August 1944, during the Liberation of Paris.
  
  The clandestine issue of 20 May 1941 contained an appeal of the French Communist Party (PCF) concerning the creation of the National Front for the Struggle for the Liberation and Independence of France: 
  The CP is directed to all those who think French and want to be act their Frenchness... In this National Front for Independence there is room for all French people except for the capitalist dogs and traitors in the service of the invader, so that France may be France and not become a Nazi colony national unity must be achieved...  against the invaders and traitors, against the Vichy government which obeys the orders of the German occupiers.
caption: Article in the newspaper L'Humanité of 24 November 1944.[i]
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