The Resistance and the European idea in the light of the New European Order championed by the Nazis
Propaganda cartoon published in the collaborationist journal Je suis partout on the fascist view of a united Europe (20 December 1941)
Bild‘Don’t wait any longer if you want to be part of the family ...’ On 20 December 1941,Je suis partout, the leading weekly publication of the collaborationist press in France, publishes a cartoon condemning those (Jews, Gaullists and Freemasons) who it sees as preventing France from joining the new Europe. In the foreground: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy surround the new Europe, joined in the background by other countries with totalitarian regimes.
A new Europe for the workers
BildItalian poster calling for the establishment of a ‘New Europe’ based on the power of the workers and not serving capitalism and Judaism.
Das Manifest von Ventotene (1941)
Text1941 verfassen die auf der italienischen Insel Ventotene festgehaltenen antifaschistischen Aktivisten Ernesto Rossi und Altiero Spinelli ein Manifest für ein freies und vereinigtes Europa.
Draft Constitution of the United States of Europe (New York, 1944)
TextOn 25 March 1944, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Pan-European Movement and the Research Seminar for Post-War European Federation adopt in New York a draft federal-type constitution for a United Europe.
Draft declaration of the European resistance movements (20 May 1944)
TextOn 31 March, 29 April, 20 May and 6 and 7 July 1944, militants from resistance movements of several European countries meet secretly in Geneva to discuss the problems related to the reconstruction of a democratic, federally-based Europe after the war.