Confrérie de Notre Dame
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The Confrérie Notre-Dame (CND), later called the CND-Castille, was a French resistance
French Resistance
The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...

 group founded by Colonel Rémy. It was joined by other anti-Nazi Catholics from France.

History

Founded before the end of 1940, the Notre-Dame Brotherhood was an information agency, and part of the Free French Forces
Free French Forces
The Free French Forces were French partisans in World War II who decided to continue fighting against the forces of the Axis powers after the surrender of France and subsequent German occupation and, in the case of Vichy France, collaboration with the Germans.-Definition:In many sources, Free...

. It was one of the first agencies of the Central Office of Information and Action (BCRA)
Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action
The Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action , commonly referred as the BCRA was the World War II-era forerunner of the SDECE, the French intelligence service...

. Devastated on several occasions, always reappearing, it took the name of NDT-Castille after the terrible blow carried against it by the Germans in November 1943. The Notre-Dame Brotherhood never ceased sending mail to London, by air and maritime routes as well as by transmitters parachuted in occupied France. Its information was often crucial for the enactment of allied military operations, in particular the raid of Bruneval in February 1942.

Sources

  • Colonel Rémy, Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre, 1946–1950, Raoul Solar.
    • Volume 1, Le Refus, ISBN 2704808279.
    • Volume 2, Les Soldats du silence, ISBN 2704808546.
    • Volume 3, La Délivrance, ISBN 2704808570.
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