In 1944 the Southwest underwent its own separate liberation; there were several partisan movements and many organizations - the FTP, the Spanish republicans, the "armée secrète", the Jewish partisans - all carrying out periodic operations against the Germans. They were different from one another, but they all had the same, twofold hope: expelling the occupying government and changing the world. They came together in the FFI. Jean-Pierre Vernant, Serge Ravanel, René Andrieu, and Pierre Lefranc, participants and witnesses of the period, tell the story.