Celestino Alfonso Célestino Alfonso ( born 1 May 1916 , at Ituero de Azaba , Salamanca province , Spain , died 21 February 1944 , at Fort Mont - Valérien , France ) was a Spanish republican , a volunteer in the French liberation army FTP - MOI , and a part of the resistance operation led by Missak Manouchian . He was , by profession , a carpenter . Youth . Alfonso arrived in France at the beginning of the 1930s . In 1934 , he joined the " Jeunesse communiste " ( Communist Youth ) and became responsible for the Ivry - sur - Seine group . In 1936 , he set out as a volunteer for republican Spain , arriving on 27 August 1936 . He served as a machine - gunner with the rank of sergeant , and from 1937 , the rank of lieutenant . In 1938 , his right hand was wounded . He was , shortly afterward , named political commissar of the 2nd International Brigade with the rank of captain . In February 1939 , he was repatriated to the camp at Saint - Cyprien , from which he escaped . Second World War . In May 1942 , Alfonso joined the French resistance . Arrested , he was deported to Germany , where , after six months in a camp , he succeeded in escaping and returned to Paris where he became head of a FTP - MOI resistance group . He participated in many operations in Paris and in the Orléans region , notably the execution of General Ernst Von Schaumburg , commandant of Greater Paris , and on 29 September 1943 of SS officer , responsible for the STO in France . Assassination of Ritter . The FTP - MOI intelligence service had noticed the strengthening of security measures on rue Saint - Dominique in Paris . A large Mercedes with swastikas on the sides regularly entered the courtyard of the " Maison de la Chimie " , and a Nazi official was let out . After four months of planning , the military leadership of the FTP requested Marcel Rayman , and Alfonso to plan an attack against this official . The operation was put under the authority of Missak Manouchian , the military overseer of the FTP - MOI , from late August 1943 . On the morning of 28 September 1943 , the Mercedes was parked for a few minutes before picking up its passenger . Alfonso fired at the SS officer as he got into the car . The windshield blocked the bullets , but the man was injured , probably by flying glass . He attempted to get out of the car through the opposite door , but Rayman hit him , fatally , with three bullets . The fighters only learned the man ' s identity through the German press : it was General , the assistant in France to Fritz Sauckel , who was responsible for the mobilization and deportation of labor under the German STO ( Obligatory Work Service ) in Nazi - occupied Europe . Ritter was the chief recruiter of slave labor in occupied France . The front - page denunciation of this " abominable act " and the official funeral at the " église de la Madeleine " gave the operation even more impact . Arrest and execution . Alfonso was arrested in October 1943 , and he was shot at the fort Mont - Valérien on 21 February 1944 , along with 21 other members of the FTP - MOI . He had a wife and a small child . Affiche rouge . Alfonso ' s name was featured on the Affiche rouge poster , as : " Alfonso , Espagnol rouge , 7 attentats " ( Alfonso , Spanish Communist , 7 attacks )