Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Claude Jaeger i te Paenga-whāwhā 2, 1917, i Geneva, Switzerland. I whakahaeretia e ia ana akoranga i Paris, a i mahi poto ia i te Manatū Moni, engari i pakaru i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, a ka mahi ia i te ope taua French. I muri i te
1940 armistice ki Nazi Germany, i uru ia ki te Communist Party o Spain (PCE) i runga i te whakaaro o Manuel Azcárate, he kaikawe Spanish i whakaraua ki Parani i muri i te hinganga o te Republican i te Pakanga Tangata Paniora. Whai muri i te hinganga o te hononga Nazi-Soviet, ka timata nga Tiamana ki te kohikohi i nga Paniora i whakaraua ki Parani i te tau 1941. I rapu rerenga a Jaeger me etahi atu komuniti ki te "Zone libre" (rohe koreutu) i te waahanga tonga o Vichy France i te 1942. I tiimata ano ia ki te kite i tana hiahia ki te umanga kiriata me te mahi hei kaiawhina kaiwhakahaere. I roto i te "Zone Libre", i tutaki a Jaeger ki a Gillo Pontecorvo, he kaihanga kiriata Itari me te hoa komihana, ka uru atu ki te Rōpū Communist Itari (PCI). I te 1943, i mahi ano a Jaeger me te ratonga korero o te Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP), te ringa komunist o te French Resistance. Ko tana ingoa waehere / ingoa ingoa ko "Michelin" a i whakawhiwhia ia ki te taumata o te koromatua, a i mahi ia i te FTP tae noa ki te mutunga o te pakanga. I mahi poto a Jaeger i raro i nga ope a General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny i te 1945 i muri i te whakakotahitanga o te FTP me te ope French Free. I muri mai ka uru atu ia ki te (OPC), te kaiwhakahaere French o te kiriata, i whakakorehia tana takenga mai o Vichy ma te huri ki te "Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée" (CPC) i te 1946. I mahi ia hei kaiwhakahaere whakaputa i reira tae noa ki te 1950, i te wa i whakakorehia ai ia e ona ahuatanga torangapu. Ko te Parti Communiste Français (PCF) i whakanohoia a Jaeger hei rangatira mo Procinex, he umanga e hanga kiriata poto mo nga kaimori maui me te rohe mana o Soviet. I te mea i whakahaerea enei kiriata e tetahi roopu torangapu, he nui ake te whakaaro ki te whakaakoranga, te whakaaweawe, me te / te ahua whakatairanga, kaua ki te whakangahau noa.