Prof. Greg Jackson
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7,804 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3d ago
Prof. Greg Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Seeing just how far Nazi cruelty could go, he feared that he would crack under the pressure and sign.
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So, to protect these tirailleurs indigènes, he slit his own throat.
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The Germans found Jean.
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They medically intervened and saved his life, but also realized this man wouldn't cave.
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Jean was free to go and took to wearing a scarf to hide his scar.
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pushed out of his role as a prefect by Vichy, Jean left for London via Portugal in September 1941 to talk to Charles de Gaulle.
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The traditional conservative general and the leftist suspected communist ex-prefect could hardly have been more different, but they believed in each other.
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In January 1942, Jean parachuted back into France, ready to put his connections and interpersonal skills to use, coordinating resistance groups and orienting them toward Charles de Gaulle.
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And over the next year, as Vichy was occupied, created the Mélisse, and made l'Estillot the law of the land, Jean, now working under the pseudonyms of Rex or Max, saw success.
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Indeed, returning to our present of 1943, Jean sees perhaps his greatest achievement.
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On May 27th, Black May to German sailors in the Atlantic, our scarf-wearing resistance leader meets with the leaders of various resistance groups at 48 Rue du Fur in Paris to create le Conseil National de la Résistance, the National Council of the Resistance.
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This is real coordination.
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The French resistance is starting to coalesce.
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But only a month later, in June, Jean and other resistance fighters are arrested in Lyon.
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The head of Lyon's Gestapo, Klaus Barbie, learns Jean's true identity, that here he has the closest thing the French resistance has to a leader in the entire country.
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Klaus tortures Jean.
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Suffice it to say that the Nazi lives up to his moniker as the butcher of Lyon in the process.
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Meanwhile, Jean proves that he was wrong about one thing.
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He didn't need to worry that he might have betrayed those back in 1940.
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The former Prefect never cracks, not even in a semi-conscious state.
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