A clandestine parade under the noses of the Germans

The Maquis of the Ain and the Haut-Jura is a group of French and foreign resistance fighters formed during the Second World War in the Bugey mountains. These fighters organized a parade on November 11, 1943, in Oyonnax, defying the ban on celebrating the 1918 armistice. The event, led by two hundred maquisards, was reported by the London radio and the clandestine press to prove the existence of the Resistance.