14 Facts About Marcel Paul

Marcel Paul was a Nazi concentration camp survivor and later served as a member of the French parliament.

Marcel Paul's birthday is given as 12 July 1900, the date he was found in the 14th arrondissement in Paris.

Marcel Paul began working at age 13, and became politically active at the age of 15 with socialist youth against the war.

Marcel Paul was conscripted into the navy, where he joined the sailors who refused to be a strikebreaker against striking workers at the Saint-Nazaire power station.

Marcel Paul was conscripted into the army in 1939 during the Phoney War.

Marcel Paul joined Havez to form a branch of the party aiming to integrate the Resistance.

Marcel Paul organized an attack against Hermann Goring, but it failed.

Marcel Paul was denounced and arrested on 13 November 1941 and tortured by Prefecture of Police Special Brigadesmen in the police station of Saint-Denis.

Marcel Paul was then taken to Compiegne and subsequently deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and Buchenwald.

Marcel Paul voted for nationalization of electricity and natural gas on April 8,1946, creating Electricite de France and Gaz de France.

Marcel Paul was deputy leader of the PCF in Haute-Vienne at the Second Constituent National Assembly and served in the French National Assembly from 1945 to 1948, when he resigned.

Marcel Paul was on the Central Committee of the PCF from 1945 to 1964.

Marcel Paul was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor in April 1982.

Marcel Paul accused Paul of having cooperated with the internal management at the camp, thereby having determined the fate of a number of prisoners and he accused Paul of having given greater priority to the interests of his party.