The Passion was not the author of "No Pasaran" Welcome to the Popular Movement
This phrase became famous during the Civil War a watchword among Republicans who wanted to prevent the passage of the fascists. No nation, however this slogan in France twenty years earlier. The historian and writer Néstor Luján places the origin at the Battle of Verdun who led Philippe Petain during World War I (1916) and who later became Marshal and chief of the Vichy government which collaborated with Hitler.
historian Pedro Voltes clarifies that the true 'il ne pas passeront ", Pétain would not be the same, but an officer of his, Robert Georges Nivelle, "more suited to the rhetoric, art for which he was completely denied the quarterback."
Luján theory has been supported by a book by journalist Agustín Calvet called Verdun. This book explains that the French soldiers repeated after the first battles, "passeront Ne pas, mon Dieu, ne pas passeront" and the mountain where the heaviest fighting occurred is crowned by a monument with the legend "Il ne pas passeront." The success of the phrase, original or copied, was consolidated in the English Civil War.
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