Adrien Henry as a Resistance fighter in Chateauroux, adviser to the Prefect, hunted by the Milice and the SS.
In the courtyard of the Gendarmerie barracks, February 1941, before moving out. Photograph of his daughter Jacqueline, a convinced patriot, just like her father!
It was in this house, near the centre of Chateauroux, that he lived with his family after having to vacate the official Gendarmerie quarters. The Milice tried to capture him by coming here, but he managed to avoid the encounter. His daughter Renee, who opened the door to the miliciens, told them plainly what she thought of them...
He often visited the Villordeau Mill to see a friend who supplied the FFI. It was there that SS troops from the Das Reich Division came looking for him, following a denunciation. He had guessed who had committed this act of cowardice...
When the SS arrived, he hid in these marshes. "They belonged to the unit that, a few days earlier, had murdered more than six hundred elderly men, women and children at Oradour, before one of its detachments headed towards Chateauroux and Issoudun."