The insignia of the Order of Liberation is the Cross of Liberation. It was designed in early 1941 by Lieutenant of the Free French Forces Tony Mella and the model produced by the London branch of the jeweller Cartier according to some recommendations from General de Gaulle himself.

The Order of the Liberation is supported by a major financial partner and two skills partners.

Nantes is the first city to have received the Cross of the Liberation, on November 11, 1941.

Grenoble received the Cross of the Liberation on May 4, 1944.

The museum houses a center for research and documentation. The reading room is open Monday to Friday during museum opening hours. The research center can be accessed via 51 bis boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg, 75007 Paris, by appointment only.

Various partners support the Order of the Liberation and its museum in better achieving their objectives and missions on a day-to-day basis.

Backed by Winston Churchill, General de Gaulle founded Free France in July 1940 in England. His aims were to continue the war, liberate France and restore its position.

The original motivations behind the French Resistance varied from person to person.

From 1933, terrorising, suppressing and “re-educating” German society were the stated objectives of the Nazi regime. In support of this totalitarian ideology, concentration camps became an essential cog in the workings of the Third Reich from the outset.