Henri Manhès - “Fondateurs du collectif français”

A stellar career took Henri Manhès to the executive floors of French publishing houses before he quit in 1933 and began working as a journalist. A man from a conservative middle-class background, starting in 1940 he rose to become one of General de Gaulle’s most important representatives in occupied France. As such he fought to unify the French resistance. After his arrest in 1943 he was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp. There, he and Marcel Paul succeeded in bridging the differences among the French inmates. They founded an aid committee and a French liberation brigade. They worked together again later in life as well: Manhès served as secretary of state under Paul as the minister of industry.