This paper, based on various sources, uses a conceptual field that describes the combination or succession of the types of attitudes adopted by the Peugeot management during the German occupation. The agreement, and the search, of German car orders is belonging to the attitude of forced adaptation that was the only way for the Peugeot company to survive. But the limitation of the production as well as the unwillingness of the management do not let us speak about collaboration. On the contrary, from the beginning, the managers prove unwilling and moreover show opposition to the Germans: various ways to slow down the armament production and refuse any political relationship. This behaviour doesn't prevent the Peugeot management to argue, inside and outside the plants, for the National Revolution of Marshall Petain, proving petainism, at least until spring 1942. From Spring 1943 onwards, the Peugeot management is in touch with the French Resistance (or the English S.O.E.) and some of Peugeot men are rallying the Resistance. After the bombing of the Sochaux factories (July 1943), they accept to support the sabotage of the machines by the resisters to whom they give help and money. The members of the Peugeot management, through their way of using forced adaptation, petainism, opposition or resistance behaviours, are always acting as managers.
