Stèle des fusillés de Signes

Oraison was also one of the key centres of the Bas-Alpine Resistance during the Second World War. On July 16, 1944, caught in a trap set by the occupying forces, the members of the Comité Départemental de Libération, led by Louis Martin Bret, were arrested and imprisoned in Marseille. On July 18, 1944, they were shot at Signes,
in the Var department.

The war goes on for almost five years, with the Germans still occupying almost all of France. The Italian campaign is in full swing and...