The publication of newspapers, pamphlets and books was a crucial means of cultural and political resistance during the Second World War. Underground resistance groups in Nazi-occupied countries including France, Belgium and Denmark published such material at great personal risk, clandestinely printing and distributing anti-fascist content while evading capture.
This display will highlight some of the resistance activity that took place in wartime Europe, showing rare and original archive material including newspapers, photographs and poems. It will showcase publications by the French Surrealist-affiliated resistance group La Main à Plume, many of whose members died by execution or in concentration camps.
It is a free display in the Keiller Library at National Galleries of Scotland: Modern Two.
