The Mass grave of Signs


Close to Signs (between the Camp and Signs on the road D2) there is a site known under the name of " mass grave of Signs " ( X ) where the resistant ones have were buried.
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July 18, 29 resistant Marseillais are taken along by truck in a clearing of the surroundings of Signs, where they will be cut down without judgement and jetés in a pit dug with their intention.
One can noted names such as Louis-Martin Bret, directing WALL (plain Movements of Resistance) for the Low-Alps, or of Robert Rossi, which was a regional head of the FFI
(Officer of the Air Force, Robert Rossi (X1933), on leave of armistice as of December 1940, contacts the movement " Release " in the area of Toulouse and becomes the military head about it. After having organized and involvehaving involved all the units of the Secret Army of this area, it is stopped in October 1943 and succeeds in escaping from the prison of Sisteron in January 1944. Indicated as Inspector FFI in May 1944, then Head of the Area R2 in Marseilles, it prepares a whole network of maquis along the Riviera and High-Provence, which will play a significant role at the time of the unloading of August 15. Decree again on July 16, it is tortured, then shot 19 with trente-huit other resistant to Signes. Companion of the Release.) for a short period. But also the name of an American: " Muthula d' Errecalde ".
Muthula d' Errecalde was a member of the OSS which had arrived from Corsica in a boat, according to a system of transport developed by a French officer named François Pelletier. Furrier was carried out him also following the infiltration of the operation by a traitor working for Ernest Dunker (Delage). The mission of Errecalde was to inspect the sites of unloading around Muy in preparation for the arrival of the parachutists of the operation Anvil
During the summer 1944, the release of the south of France was imminent. The American, British units and Frenchwomen who formed the 7th Army of the General Alexander Patch involved around Naples, in Corsica and Algeria, and waited to embark on board buildings and planes for the operation Anvil (renamed then Dragoon), who was to make them unload on the Riviera on the level of Saint-Raphaël, Fréjus and of Saint-Tropez.
This box is under the stone furnace bridge, close to the cross of Lorraine.


See the words of the " song of in favour "