Daniel Decourdemanche was then appointed as a teacher of German in Reims where he joined the French Young Communist movement.

In 1941, Decour became responsible for the Comité national des écrivains which published a new magazine the Lettres françaises but never got to see it, due to his arrest by the French police on 17 February 1942.

In the cell where he was waiting for his execution in Fort Mont-Valérien, he wrote a letter saying goodbye to those he loved: his parents and his daughter Brigitte.

[1] "Je me considère un peu comme une feuille qui tombe de l’arbre pour faire du terreau.

"[2] Articles published in various magazines: NRF, February 1930-December 1936, Les Annales, March 1932-August 1933, La Voix du peuple de Touraine, December 1936–June 1937, Commune, December 1938–June 1939, L'Université libre, November 1940–December 1941, La Pensée libre, February 1941–February 1942.