Christian Pineau; WWII Resistance Leader, French Official

Christian Pineau, 90, a World War II Resistance leader and government minister who helped create Europe’s Common Market in 1957. After the defeat of French troops by Nazi Germany in 1940, Pineau created the first Resistance network to operate in the occupied zone. In 1942 he worked with Charles de Gaulle in London, returning to France the following year with Jean Moulin, head of the French Resistance, who was tortured by Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie. Pineau and Moulin were imprisoned together in Lyon, and Pineau recalled finding Moulin mutilated shortly before Moulin died. Pineau was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in December, 1943, and liberated in April, 1945. After the war, Pineau became minister of supplies under De Gaulle. He went on to hold several Cabinet posts, including minister of foreign affairs in 1957, when he signed the Treaty of Rome creating the Common Market. On Wednesday in Paris.