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)
Image‘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
ImageItalian poster calling for the establishment of a ‘New Europe’ based on the power of the workers and not serving capitalism and Judaism.
The Manifesto of Ventotene (1941)
TexteIn 1941, the anti-Fascist activists Ernesto Rossi and Altiero Spinelli, placed under house arrest on the Italian island of Ventotene, draw up a manifesto for a free and united Europe.
Draft Constitution of the United States of Europe (New York, 1944)
TexteOn 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)
TexteOn 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.