During World War II, various resistance networks required the use of forged documents. Ingenuity and organization in this field will popularize the use ... The production of forged papers has seen an impressive expansion in 1943-1944, which is one of the best indices of the increase in resistance power, but also of the links formed at that time between organized resistance and the population due to the dramatic development of the war. During this period, forged papers become a real industry, with outlets far beyond the needs of the actual resistance fighters to expand to all those persecuted: Resistance fighters at the compulsory labor office, Jews threatened by deportation to the death camps. Thus, serial production decentralized. For example, the false papers service of one of the main underground organizations in 1944, the National Liberation Movement, which groups large movements from the southern zone and some movements from the north: the head of this department, the industrial Pierre Kahn-Farelle, nickname "Pierre of false papers", distributes "kitas from the perfect forger", equivalent to real small field laboratories. The equipment is delivered in suitcases with fake forms and tampons of all kinds to complete sets of false identities including birth certificates, demobilization certificates, employment certificates He is... The suitcases are divided among different organizations. These fake documents have led to very many people being arrested by the German Army.
