Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Claude Jaeger a ranar 2 ga Afrilu, 1917, a Geneva, Switzerland. Ya yi karatunsa a Paris kuma ya yi aiki na ɗan gajeren lokaci a Ma'aikatar Kudi, amma Yaƙin Duniya na II ya katse shi kuma ya yi aiki a rundunar sojojin Faransa. Bayan armistice na 1940 tare da Nazi Jamus
, ya shiga Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Spain (PCE) bisa shawarar Manuel Azcárate, wani dan gurguzu dan Spain da ke gudun hijira a Faransa bayan rashin nasarar Jamhuriyar Republican a yakin basasar Spain. Bayan rugujewar kawancen Nazi-Soviet, Jamusawa sun fara tattara 'yan gudun hijirar Spain a Faransa a 1941. Jaeger da sauran 'yan gurguzu sun nemi mafaka a cikin "Zone libre" (yanci kyauta) a kudancin Vichy Faransa a 1942. Ya kuma fara gano sha'awarsa ga masana'antar fim kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin darakta. A cikin "Zone Libre", Jaeger ya sadu da Gillo Pontecorvo, wani ɗan fim ɗin Italiya kuma ɗan kwaminisanci, kuma ya shiga Jam'iyyar Kwaminisanci ta Italiya (PCI). Zuwa 1943, Jaeger ya kuma yi aiki tare da sabis na bayanan Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP), bangaren kwaminisanci na Resistance na Faransa. Sunan sa / sunan sa shine "Michelin" kuma an bashi mukamin Kanal, kuma ya yi aiki a FTP har zuwa karshen yakin. Jaeger ya yi aiki a takaice a karkashin sojojin Janar Jean de Lattre de Tassigny a shekarar 1945 bayan da aka hade FTP tare da sojojin Faransa. Daga baya ya shiga (OPC), mai kula da finafinan Faransa, wanda ba da daɗewa ba ya zubar da asalin Vichy ta hanyar canzawa zuwa "Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée" (CPC) na zamani a cikin 1946. Ya yi aiki a matsayin manajan samarwa a can har zuwa 1950, lokacin da ra'ayoyinsa na siyasa suka sa aka kore shi. Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Faransa (PCF) ta sanya Jaeger a matsayin mai kula da Procinex, wani kamfani wanda zai samar da gajeren fina-finai ga masu sauraro na hagu da kuma yankin tasirin Soviet. Kamar yadda jam'iyyar siyasa ta ba da umarnin waɗannan fina-finai, ana nufin su zama masu ilimi, masu ban sha'awa, da / ko farfaganda maimakon a matsayin nishaɗi mai tsabta.