Avenue 22 Août 1944
Béziers · Hérault (Occitanie) · France
Data: August 22
Photograph: Olga Palacios (2023-07-18)
1944. Liberation of the city
On the evening of August 22, around twenty maquisards led by Fernand Pagès, alias Dessenne, attacked the Germans at the Gare du Nord. They withdrew, leaving about ten killed, thirty wounded and equipment on the ground. This is the end of the passage of the Germans in Béziers, no other column will attempt to cross the city.