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Partisans of the World

By: Marcus Barnett

For many people who risked their lives to defeat Nazism, aiding the post-war movements against a dying but vicious colonialism was the next step in the fight to realise their anti-fascist ideals.

Mário Pinto de Andrade, Ana Maria Cabral, Pedro Pires, and Basil Davidson in Praia, 1980 (Photo credit: FMSMB / Arquivo Mário Pinto de Andrade)

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Though the cruelties of Buchenwald concentration camp left 22-year-old Jean Berthet with memory problems that were to dog him throughout his ninety-three years of life, it affirmed his humane values just as profoundly. Born in colonial Vietnam into a French mercantile family, the infant Jean was taught to adore the ‘civilisation’ exported by the French […]

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Though the cruelties of Buchenwald concentration camp left 22-year-old Jean Berthet with memory problems that were to dog him throughout his ninety-three years of life, it affirmed his humane values just as profoundly. Born in colonial Vietnam into a French mercantile family, the infant Jean was taught to adore the ‘civilisation’ exported by the French […]

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Though the cruelties of Buchenwald concentration camp left 22-year-old Jean Berthet with memory problems that were to dog him throughout his ninety-three years of life, it affirmed his humane values just as profoundly. Born in colonial Vietnam into a French mercantile family, the infant Jean was taught to adore the ‘civilisation’ exported by the French […]

Though the cruelties of Buchenwald concentration camp left 22-year-old Jean Berthet with memory problems that were to dog him throughout his ninety-three years of life, it affirmed his humane values just as profoundly. Born in colonial Vietnam into a French mercantile family, the infant Jean was taught to adore the ‘civilisation’ exported by the French […]

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